What are the responsibilities and job description for the Regional Director - Managed Care - ACUTE position at Universal Health Services, Inc. - Corporate Office - Remote?
Responsibilities
One of the nation’s largest and most respected providers of hospital and healthcare services, Universal Health Services, Inc. (UHS) has built an impressive record of achievement and performance. Growing steadily since its inception into an esteemed Fortune 500 corporation, annual revenues were $13.4 billion in 2022. During the year, UHS was again recognized as one of the World’s Most Admired Companies by Fortune; and listed in Forbes ranking of America’s Largest Public Companies. Headquartered in King of Prussia, PA, UHS has approximately 94,000 employees and continues to grow through its subsidiaries. Operating acute care hospitals, behavioral health facilities, outpatient facilities and ambulatory care access points, an insurance offering, a physician network and various related services located all over the U.S. states, Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico and the United Kingdom.
UHS is currently recruiting for our Regional Director of Managed Care for the acute division in our Texas / Oklahoma region.
Responsibilities include:
Maximizes the performance of UHS managed care contracted business in accordance with sound health care and fiscal management practices.
Establishes contracting parameters, “rules of engagement” and contracting tools to ensure creation of managed care contracts that meet UHS corporate financial goals and maximizes the potential for revenue collection per company systems.
Participates in payer negotiations as appropriate and requested by facility CEO’s and Regional VP’s.
Represents UHS to payers on a national basis to encourage open communication and maintains relationships beneficial to UHS.
Ensures managed care/revenue cycle coordination among all functional areas required to maximize contact performance (e.g. business office, managed care, UM and CFO staff). Facilitates meetings of corporate and filed staff to establish parameters that ensure contract performance objectives and establishment of managed care/revenue cycle committees at all facilities with significant managed care business volume.
Strengthens managed care analytical reporting to improve negotiations goal setting and maximizing contract performance.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree
- Comprehensive working knowledge of managed care contracting and practices sufficient to maximize revenue generated from these sources.
- Extensive knowledge of health care finance practices and methods.
- Demonstrated managed care contract negotiation skills.
- Demonstrated inter-personal and written and verbal communication skills required in imparting and developing contract negotiation practices to Acute Care hospital executive management staff.
EEO Statement
All UHS subsidiaries are committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants and teammates. UHS subsidiaries are equal opportunity employers and as such, openly support and fully commit to recruitment, selection, placement, promotion and compensation of individuals without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), genetic information, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
We believe that diversity and inclusion among our teammates is critical to our success.
Notice
At UHS and all subsidiaries, our Human Resources departments and recruiters are here to help prospective candidates with matching skillset and experience with the best possible career at UHS and our subsidiaries. We take pride in creating a highly efficient and best in class candidate experience. During the recruitment process, no recruiter or employee will request financial or personal information (Social Security Number, credit card or bank information, etc.) from you via email. The recruiters will not email you from a public webmail client like Hotmail, Gmail, Yahoo Mail etc. If you feel suspicious of a job posting or job-related email, let us know by contacting us at: https://uhs.alertline.com or 1-800-852-3449
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