What are the responsibilities and job description for the Associate Director of Population Health position at CU Medicine?
University of Colorado Medicine (CU Medicine) is the region’s largest and most comprehensive multi-specialty physician group practice. The CU Medicine team delivers business operations, revenue cycle and administrative services to support the patients of over 4,000 University of Colorado School of Medicine physicians and advanced practice providers. These providers bring their unparalleled expertise at the forefront of medicine to deliver trusted, compassionate health care services at primary and specialty care clinics as well as facilities operated by affiliate hospitals of the University of Colorado.
Due to the nature of this role, we will only consider candidates who currently reside in Colorado or those with tentative plans to relocate to Colorado.
This job offers a primarily remote work structure with on-site work required as dictated by the needs of the job.
We are seeking a highly motivated Associate Director to lead our Population Health team.
The Associate Director will be responsible for partnering with leadership for oversight of all value-based program operations across all payors. The individual in this position will be integral in the development of future strategic initiatives with the Office of Value Based Performance (OVBP), while optimizing quality and utilization performance within current value-based contracts.
Essential Duties:
Strategically manage CU Medicine’s value-based program portfolio, including the management of assigned OVBP operations staff.
Oversee activities associated with the development of best practices in Epic functionality and workflows that support population health activities (i.e. Reporting workbench, Slicer Dicer, HCC/Clinical BPAs, etc.)
Develop strategies and design workflows positioning the practice to realize performance-based incentives while conversely protecting the practice against fee schedule penalties/reductions.
Create and foster relationships across affiliate partners to promote innovation and alignment with population health activities.
Manage efforts related to new value-based contracts emerging within Specialty and Primary Care domains.
Liaise with payer partners through JOC attendance and strategic discussions on optimizing performance.
Serve as organizational expert for quality and performance reporting requirements across all programs.
Support all related activities when evaluating participation decisions for new value-based contracts.
Develop and maintain academic medical practice networking relationships to assist with identification of best practice and OVBP benchmarking.
Oversee population health funds flow and budgeting activities.
Perform other duties and assist with special projects as assigned.
Requirements:
Bachelor’s degree required, MBA or Graduate Degree highly preferred
8 years of directly related healthcare administration/program management experience required
5 years management experience required
Must be comfortable interacting with providers and act as SME within a clinical setting
Strong project management skills and proven track record of meeting deadlines
Advanced MS Office proficiency
Demonstrated proficiency in Epic Ambulatory and/or Healthy Planet modules preferred
All applications MUST be submitted via our website.
CU Medicine is dedicated to ensuring a safe and secure environment for our staff and visitors. To assist in achieving that goal, we conduct background investigations for all prospective employees prior to their employment. We are an equal opportunity employer.
The listed pay range (or hiring rate) represents CU Medicine’s good faith and reasonable estimate of the range of possible compensation at the time of posting and is based on evaluation of competitive market data.
A variety of factors, including but not limited to, internal equity, experience, and education will be considered when determining the final offer.
CU Medicine provides generous leave, health plans and retirement contributions which take your total compensation beyond the number on your paycheck. Find information about our benefits here.
CU Medicine will post all jobs for a minimum of 7 days or until 250 applicants have been received (whichever comes first).
CU Medicine supports a Tobacco Free Workplace Environment which prohibits smoking and the use of tobacco products on CU Medicine property, Anschutz Medical Campus and adjacent business locations.
Salary : $120,000 - $145,000
