Business Consultant

Overview

Overview:

The Business Consultant leads and mentors the Service Delivery team in all Tier 1 (Basic) and Tier 2 (Intermediate) consulting initiatives. The position provides in-depth and comprehensive subject matter expertise related to Source products (from basic to advanced features/functionality), payment methodologies/policies (Medicare, Medicaid, and commercial), payment integrity, and healthcare plan operations (e. g. , claim life cycle/workflow, network contracting, payment/policy configuration, provider relations, medical management, medical economics, audit, compliance) related to implementation/consulting engagements, strategic user adoption initiatives, and ongoing client support.

The Product:

With Source, we're changing the industry narrative, providing a more holistic approach to payment integrity that focuses on comprehensive reimbursement, agile editing, and integrated analytics. Our interoperable, cloud-based solution is modular to meet a health plan's needs today and extensible to grow with their organization over time-bringing disparate parts of a payer's organization together for improved accuracy and insights. The Source platform offers the ability for clients to unlock transformation at the reimbursement, payment integrity, and enterprise level. Our Reimbursement Transformation features Medicare and Medicaid content coupled with flexible contract configuration capabilities for Commercial lines of business. Payment Integrity Transformation includes rich editing libraries with history-based capabilities, easy development of customized edits, and improved transparency to reduce vendor dependency and increase control. As a complete solution, clients can achieve Enterprise Transformation, where root-cause issues are identified and addressed upstream, and all aspects of claims operations are centralized for comprehensive business intelligence. The complete suite of solutions from HealthEdge delivers a digital foundation for payers specifically designed to fuel a digital transformation, reduce costs, and improve both clinical outcomes and the member experience.

Who you are:

• *Creative entrepreneur.  * You have a constant drive to make things better; you question the status quo and approachcommon challengeswith creativity and constructive criticism. You have skills toclearly and convincingly share ideasin a way that adapts to your audience, regardless of function, level, orexpertise.

• Critical, big-picture thinker . You have a constant thirst for knowledge and the ability to credibly share it with others, whether internally or externally. You are analytical, evaluating logic-based details while always considering and problem solving for the sake of the big picture.

• *Self-starter.  * You are proactive, self-motivated, and able to push work, start initiatives, and provide ideas independently in a team environment.

• *Team player & coach.  * You can foster professional and personal respect from others and find success in a team setting. While highly collaborative, you have natural management skills and know how to grow and develop people.

• *Adaptable multi-tasker.  * You are highly organized and flexible. You know how to manage expectations and are able to thrive in fast-paced, constantly changing environments and successfully adapt to a variety of tasks.

What you will do:

Education and Consulting (implementation/consulting engagements, strategic user adoption initiatives, and on-going client support)

• Provide the highest level of product education (from basic to advanced features/functionality to Source end-users

• Provide in-depth and comprehensive subject matterexpertiserelated to:

• Medicare, Medicaid, and commercial payment methodologies/policies

• Payment integrity

• Healthcare plan operations (e. g. , claim adjudication life cycle/workflows, network contracting, payment/policy related configuration, provider relations, medical management, medical economics, audit, compliance)

• Conduct collaborative scoping sessions toidentifyclient needs andappropriate solutions

• Actively manage and/orparticipatein the development, maintenance, and execution of client facing education services 

Enhancement/Issue Escalation

• Manage issues, questions, inquiries of Tier 1 and 2escalation

• Serve as escalation point for critical client needs aswarranted.

• Lead diagnosis and resolution of escalated and more involved/complex client problems and issues.

• Act as a liaison between clients and internal support staff (research, development, and product teams) to assureaccurateproblem interpretation and resolution.

• Capture andsolicitissues/feedback from clients and internal stakeholders and document issues and client impacts.

• Partner withappropriate Source Teams(BA, PM, Development, Account Management, Sales/Business Development, Product, Content, and Service Delivery) to manage problem framing,diagnosisand resolution.

• Conduct/participatein root cause analysis toidentifyand deliver warranted service improvements.

• Maintain demeanor as a calming influence during pressure situations, mixing in the correct degree of professional assertiveness without becoming aggressive.

• Maintain communication with customers during the problem resolution process,utilizingsuperior customer service skills.

Capability/Tool Development/Maintenance

• Leverage capabilities and tools (knowledge libraries, workflow, issue identification and documentation, function processes).

• Lead capability and tool development underdirectionof Service Delivery Leadership.

Staff/Team Management/Supervision

• Mentor and provide oversight for Tier 1 and 2 Service Delivery staff

• Take direction from and collaborate with Service Delivery Leadership to continually review and enhance performance and strategy.

Whatyoubring:

• Bachelor's degree in a business, health services administration, mathematics,scienceor related field, and/or equivalent work experiencerequired.

• AHIP, HFMA, AAPC, and/or AHIMA certification preferred.

• 5+ years training, education, and/or consulting experience preferred.

• Practical understanding of the healthcare system with regards to Medicare, Medicaid, managed care, and commercial payment methodologies, payment integrity, and health plan operations (e. g. , claim life cycle/workflows, network contracting, payment/policy related configuration, provider relations, medical management, medical economics, audit, compliance).

• Experience with interpretation/translation of complex health-plan in-network and out-of-network provider rate and/or claim editing provisions.

• Experience with config.