- Actively participate in department meetings and operations, including process development or improvement.
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- Collaborates and communicates regularly with contracted Health Plans, Medical/Provider Groups, ancillary vendors, industry-wide organizations (i.e. Department of Managed Health Care, Alameda County Health department, California Children's Services), internal departments and any other providers when appropriate.
- Communicates with physicians and multidisciplinary health team members to maintain the multidisciplinary team approach to ensure effective resource utilization and an appropriate level of care.
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- Ensures all applicable department and regulatory targets for productivity and department performance process improvements in the area of denials are attained (e.g., readmissions, throughput, LOS).
- Identifies and documents quality incidents.
- Initiates the appeal process, at the direction of the Supervisor and/or physician advisors, until the case is overturned, appeal options are exhausted, or the decision is made to discontinue the process; assumes the responsibility for coordinating and appealing clinical denials per department policy; develops any appeal letters to substantiate the medical necessity for admission or continued stay using evidence from the medical record and clinical review tools, as well as input from the attending physician and/or Physician Advisor, complies with all submission time frames and other guidelines outlined by the third party payers and auditors.
- Perform all other duties as assigned.
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- Responsible for all incoming and outbound clinical requests, questions, concerns and complaints.
- Tracks and trends progress and outcomes of denial and appeal processes and compiles reports for division and AHS leadership.
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Care Management Clinical Appeals Specialist - San Leandro, United States - Alameda Health System
Description
SummarySUMMARY:
Coordinates and executes the appeal process for all AHS facilities clinical appeals and third party audits.
DUTIES &
ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS:
NOTE:
The following are the duties performed by employees in this classification. However, employees may perform other related duties at an equivalent level. Not all duties listed are necessarily performed by each individual in the classification.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:
Preferred Education:
Master's in Nursing.
Preferred Licenses/Certifications:
Certification in Case Management, CCMC or ACM.
Required Education:
Bachelor's of Nursing,
Required Experience:
Five years of acute care nursing including medicine/surgery, ICU, telemetry or Five years of Case Management experience in an acute setting or utilization review at a medical group or health plan.
Required Licenses/Certifications:
Active licensure as a Registered Nurse in the State of California, Active BLS - Basic Life Support Certification issued by the American Heart Association.
Other advanced life support certifications may be required per unit/department specialty according to patient care policies.CPI -Crisis Prevention Intervention Training (required for all positions at John George Psychiatric Pavilion; and certain positions in the Emergency Department).
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