Program Manager II, Clinical Partnerships

This position is a hybrid remote from home and travel position. Travel across the state to clinics will be required. Candidates from all areas of Washington state are welcome to apply. 

Who we are

Community Health Plan of Washington is an equal opportunity employer committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to any actual or perceived protected characteristic or other unlawful consideration.

Our commitment is to:

• Strive to apply an equity lens to all our work. 
• Reduce health disparities. 
• Become an anti-racist organization. 
• Create an equitable work environment. 

About the Role

The Program Manager II, Clinical Partnerships position is responsible for deploying risk adjustment improvement initiatives and facilitating best practice sharing for Community Health Plan of Washington’s network of integrated primary care clinics.  The incumbent is part of a team that provides structured risk adjustment improvement support (practice coaching and analytics) and facilitates network learning opportunities (webinars, newsletters, roundtables, and review of performance registries and reports), in support of CHPW’s risk adjustment improvement efforts.

To be successful in this role, you:

• Have a bachelor’s degree (in health administration, nursing, public administration, public health, or closely related field) or an equivalent combination of education and highly relevant experience required.
• Have 3-5 years of direct experience working with physicians, care teams and senior leadership across the healthcare setting.
• Have experience in health care, preferably in an ambulatory or outpatient care setting desired.

Essential functions and Roles and Responsibilities:

• Design an annual work plan for risk adjustment improvement in collaboration with each clinic in the incumbent’s portfolio and facilitate achievement within the collaborative work plan.
• Act as primary point of contact for risk-related issues, including connecting clinics and CHPW contacts on risk issues; serve as liaison to other CHPW teams, including Population Analytics, Quality and Clinical Data Integration and Operations; Marketing; as an example. 
• Build meaningful relationships with key contacts at clinics. This includes effectively managing regular site visits and phone calls, providing data and information related to specific performance metrics, and regularly promoting CHPW initiatives.
• Schedule and attend in-person meetings with clinic representatives for continued support of CHPW’s risk adjustment initiatives.
• Identify opportunities for shared learning of best practices, including special interest groups focused on specific risk adjustment improvement strategies and initiatives.
• Collaborate with CHPW departments and CHNW clinics on development of webinars, newsletters, incentive programs and other communications.
• Collaborate with the Quality team for content inclusion for the bi-annual in-person Regional Quality Roundtables.
• Conduct clinic trainings on risk adjustment functionality within the population health management platform.
• Produce training materials and other collateral in support of clinic risk adjustment activities.
• Assists in centralizing, consolidating and monitoring policy and procedure manuals related to performance improvement. 
• Requires 25%-30% in-state travel. Some overnight travel may be required.
• Other duties as assigned. Essential functions listed are not necessarily exhaustive and may be revised by the employer, at its sole discretion.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Knowledge of medical coding for risk adjustment preferred.
• Technical familiarity with clinic electronic health record (EHR) systems and population health management platforms preferred.
• Knowledge of the primary care and behavioral health practice coaching model.
• Experience in staff development and training for healthcare providers.
• Effective oral and written communication skills, including presentation of data and reports to executive teams.
• Effective process improvement and project management skills.
• Effective interpersonal skills that enable relationship building with all levels and functions of a health care organization.
• Effective analytic and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to work independently and is self-motivated to complete deliverables and meet assigned deadlines.

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