Director, Physician Contracting

Job Description:

Essential Functions

• Manage the Physician Contracting function, ensuring the appropriate organizational structure to achieve the expected results.
• Perform administrative leadership duties of staffing, development, performance management and coaching for several direct reports.
• Provide technical direction and guidance to the physician contracting staff to ensure that their delegated assignments are completed such that the product reflects the intent of the parties to the agreement, are compliant, pertinent, and timely. 
• Goal setting, budgeting, and assuring the availability of necessary resources to achieve the objectives of the organization.
• Lead and execute projects to address contracting needs.
• Ensure the appropriate documentation of key processes and procedures that govern workflows and ensure compliance with internal policies.
• Act as the enterprise subject matter expert and resource for the portfolio.
• Monitor the healthcare environment and proactively identify pertinent issues and strategies related to Physician Contracting and identify necessary content changes. Stay abreast of advances pertaining to contract management that would improve the performance of Physician Contracting Services.
• Collaborate with stake holders in identifying and formulating contractual arrangements that are pertinent to strategic and operational objectives.
• Partner closely with the Physician Compensation to assure that the Physician Contracting process is properly aligned for fair-market value and commercial reasonableness oversight.
• Ensure effective communication and appropriate transfer of information among the contracting staff and stakeholders.
• Demonstrate excellent customer service with both internal and external customers. When service shortfalls occur, provide solutions and service recovery techniques as appropriate.

Skills

• Strategic direction
• Contracts and contracting
• Performance improvement
• Leadership
• Communication
• Regulatory Compliance
• Quality Improvement
• Long Term Planning

Minimum Qualifications

• Demonstrated extensive experience in written and verbal communications and financial analysis, as well as an understanding of legal terms and principles and contact law.
• Demonstrated experience in a leadership / management role with responsibility for contract development and/or management.
• Proven experience writing, analyzing, interpreting and managing contracts.
• Experience in a role requiring a demonstrated expertise in federal fraud, waste, and abuse laws and contract compliance processes and systems.
• Ability to manage large-scale projects and tasks while ensuring requisite attention to detail.
• Experience in a role requiring a comprehensive understanding of the types of information used in a Physician Contracting development, regulations and legal requirements that impact physician compensation and contracts.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience leading a team
• Experience in a high-volume time sensitive and visible function
• Experience in a healthcare delivery organization
• Experience with contracts, or another context that depends on communicating meaning in writing
• Experience using KPIs and continuous improvement principles to improve a function
• Experience with Stark and Anti-Kickback compliance

Additional Information

• This position can be performed remotely with business travel as-needed. The majority of in-person meetings will be in Utah, Nevada, Colorado and Montana. Currently, we are not hiring remote workers in the following states: CA, CT, HI, IL, NY,  RI, VT, and WA.
• This is an exempt, full-time position. Pay offers are determined by prior years of relevant experience within the established pay range. In addition to the annual salary, to show our commitment to you and assist with your transition into our organization, we may offer a sign-on and relocation bonus when applicable. With this position, you are eligible to participate in the Annual Pay for Performance (AP4P) Plan. This plan enables Intermountain Health to provide leaders with an additional performance compensation opportunity. The AP4P award opportunities are calculated as a percentage of your base salary. Awards are paid out based on attainment of selected Board-approved goals. 

Physical Requirements

• Ongoing need for caregiver to see and read information, documents, monitors, identify equipment and supplies, and be able to assess customer needs.
• Frequent interactions with providers, colleagues, customers, patients/clients, and visitors require the caregiver to verbally communicate as well as hear and understand spoken information, needs, and issues quickly and accurately.
• Manual dexterity of hands and fingers to manipulate complex and delicate equipment with precision and accuracy. This includes frequent computer use for typing, accessing needed information, etc.

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The hourly range for this position is listed below. Actual hourly rate dependent upon experience. 

We care about your well-being – mind, body, and spirit – which is why we provide our caregivers a generous benefits package that covers a wide range of programs to foster a sustainable culture of wellness that encompasses living healthy, happy, secure, connected, and engaged.

Learn more about our comprehensive benefits package here.

Intermountain Health is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.

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