**It's more than a career, it's a calling.** MO-SSM Health Mission Hill **Worker Type:** Regular **Job Highlights:** This position is located on-site at our health system's headquarters in St. Louis, Missouri and is not remote work eligible. **_Named 150 Top Places to Work in Healthcare 2024 - Becker's Healthcare_** **_Names One of the Diversity Leaders 2024 – Modern Healthcare_** **_Named One of America's Greatest Workplaces for Diversity 2024 - Newsweek_** **_Named One of America's Greatest Workplaces for Women 2024 – Newsweek_** **_Names One of America’s Greatest Workplaces for Job Starters 2024 – Newsweek_** SSM Health is a Catholic, not-for-profit health system serving the comprehensive health needs of communities across the Midwest through a robust and fully integrated health care delivery system. The organization’s 40,000 team members and more than 13,900+ providers are committed to providing exceptional health care services and revealing God’s healing presence to everyone they serve. ​​​​​​​ With care delivery sites in Illinois, Missouri, Oklahoma, and Wisconsin, SSM Health includes 23 hospitals, more than 300 physician offices and other outpatient and virtual care services, 12 post-acute facilities, comprehensive home care and hospice services, a pharmacy benefit company, a health insurance company and an accountable care organization. It is one of the largest employers in every community it serves. To request additional information, confidentially submit your interest, or nominate a fellow colleague, please contact: Angela Jones Executive Talent Acquisition Angela.Jones1@ssmhealth.com \#LI-onsite **Job Summary:** Drives strategy and operational effectiveness within assigned region and/or ministries through demonstrating operational effectiveness of care progression activities in alignment with our value-based care strategy. Provides regional physician leadership and physician coaching for all activities of care management, utilization management, and clinical documentation integrity. Collaborates with vendor partners, acting as a liaison and regional contact for organization’s physician advisor services. Supports strategic goals and drives behaviors which achieve meaningful and measurable outcomes. Acts as a change agent to achieve programmatic goals, while leveraging resources and utilizing strengths within the organization and through partnerships to identify and addresses local and regional factors which affect care delivery. Collaborates with the clinical leaders, case management, clinical documentation integrity (CDI), utilization management, and revenue cycle leadership to ensure quality and appropriate cost of care and utilization of services. **Job Responsibilities and Requirements:** PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES + Collaborates with vendor partners to ensure appropriate balance of advocacy and support for patients, families, practitioners and professional staff and the organization. + Serves as the regional/ministry physician expert, providing medical direction and oversight to care management, utilization management andclinical documentation integrity (CDI) including length of stay management, complex care rounds, clinically and integrated networks. + Acts as primary contact for regional leadership with physician advisor services through oversight of vendor services to improve our appropriateness of care progression. Ensures services support the regional and/or ministry unique factors affecting care delivery and care progression. + Uses operational knowledge of Center for Medicare Services (CMS) guidelines and a keen understanding of the payor market and managed care contracts to monitor vendor service performance as well as the total operations for care progression for the organization. Remains current on healthcare and payor regulatory provisions. Exhibits understanding of value-based care models, including perspective of care delivery focused on the right intervention, at the right time, and in the right care setting. + Monitors metrics to drive performance improvement opportunities to achieve the highest quality and regulatory compliance through partnership with regional leaders and vendor. + Acts as escalation point for case prioritization with physicians and care management leaders for challenging, high conflict or outlier case circumstances. Collaborates with stakeholders across the care continuum to ensure success throughout various stages of vendor relationship and care progression activities. + Provides CDI medical oversight and follows up on individual peer to peer conversations regarding CDI queries. + Partners with vendor service, revenue cycle team, physicians, payors and Care Transformation leadership for education and communication to achieve desired outcomes. + Develops effective and positive relationships with multiple stakeholders assuring successful implementation and maintenance including managing timelines, resources, and deliverables. + Demonstrates respect and values the contributions of all disciplines, building relationships that foster trust and confidence for all departments and teams involved with patient care. + Actively participate in a leadership capacity in system and region governance for Care Transformation including serving as primary lead for the governance for Utilization Management. + Oversees and is responsible for utilization management committee and governance for their respective region. + Accountable to the regional leadership team for denial management, medical necessity, and appropriate utilization of inpatient resources including providing strategic and operational guidance/partnership to the regional leadership team on these issues. + Recruits, engages, develops, leads, and manages assigned staff.​ + Performs other duties as assigned. EDUCATION + Doctorate from an accredited school of medicine EXPERIENCE + Seven years' experience, with two years in leadership **Department:** 8745000033 Patient Experience **Work Shift:** Day Shift (United States of America) **Scheduled Weekly Hours:** 40 **Benefits:** SSM Health values our exceptional employees by offering a comprehensive benefits package to fit their needs. + **Paid Parental Leave** **:** we offer eligible team members one week of paid parental leave for newborns or newly adopted children (pro-rated based on FTE). + **Flexible Payment Options:** our voluntary benefit offered through DailyPay offers eligible hourly team members instant access to their earned, unpaid base pay (fees may apply) before payday. + **Upfront Tuition Coverage** : we provide upfront tuition coverage through FlexPath Funded for eligible team members. Explore All Benefits (https://jobs.ssmhealth.com/us/en/benefits) _SSM Health is an equal opportunity employer. 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