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Physician Compensation Administrator - Hybrid (must reside in commuting distance to Flagstaff)

Northern Arizona Healthcare
3 years ago
Full-time
Remote
United States
Compensation Administrator

Overview

This is a hybrid position.  You must reside within commuting distance to Flagstaff as some on-site work is required.

 

The Physician Compensation Administrator provides expertise on the analyzation of potential Professional Service Agreements (PSA). S/he evaluates the adequacy of documentation should the organization pursue PSAs with moderate to high risk and ensures all contracts are properly executed and adjudicated. The Physician Compensation Administrator maintains database integrity and ensures all payments to physicians and physician groups comply with the terms of the contract.

Responsibilities

Data Integrity
  • Maintains integrity of physician and provider data within the Contracts and TERMS databases.
  • Ensures PSAs are uploaded.
  • Ensures all fields, both templates and custom fields, contain compensation figures and other information.
  • Ensures primary link to contract contains all amendments to that contract.
  • Documents communication with provider within the system.
  • Ensures PSA payments are consistently adjudicated in alignment with contracts terms.
  • Ensures custom reports are available for the Medicare Cost Reporting/other purposes.
  • Creates and maintains custom reports within the contracts database.
  • Compiles and maintains custom reports for productivity, clinic/hospital collections analysis, work effort requirements, and other performance summaries or reports.
  • Serves as content expert for contracts database and contracts database TERMS and educate colleagues.
 
Contract Management
  • Ensures signatory compliance on all provider contracts/amendments and proper notice of contract terminations advance.
  • Ensures transmission of accurate Personnel Action Forms when indicated.
  • Collaborates with HR and Payroll personnel.
  • Researches and evaluates alleged discrepancies, notify chain of command of findings.
  • Collaborates with Director; evaluates all potential Professional Service Agreements for regulatory compliance.
  • Monitors compliance with contractual requirements for APL, Conflicts of Interest, CME, Student Loan forgiveness, Sign On Bonus repayments, IRS reporting of other income, and Nonmonetary Compensation.
  • Collaborates with Compensation Analyst, Financial Planning and/or Business Intelligence to review annual quality and patient satisfaction bonuses, quarterly wRVU incentive payments and extra shift compensation for accuracy and contract compliance.
  • Assists with internal and third party valuations of FMV or proposed contractual arrangements, if requested.
  • Assists with the submission of data to third party (i.e. MGMA, ECG, AMGA) physician compensation survey tools, if requested.
  • Serves as content expert for physician compensation terms.
 
Operational Physician Education
  • Educates physicians, physician groups, and practice managers in various software systems.
  • Educates physicians, physician groups and practice managers in compensation policies and procedures as well as compliance regulations.
 
Compliance/Safety
  • Responsible for reporting any safety-related incident in a timely fashion through the Midas/RDE tool; attends all safety-related training programs; performs work in a safe manner; monitors work environment for possible safety issues and ensures others are also performing work in a safe manner.
  • Stays current and complies with state and federal regulations/statutes and company policies that impact the employee's area of responsibility.
  • If required for the position, ensures all certifications and/or licenses are up-to-date and valid prior to expiration dates.
  • Completes all company mandatory modules and required job-specific training in the specified time frame.
  • Collaborates with key stakeholders including providers, executives, medical group leaders, decision support team and recruiters.
  • Demonstrates the ability to implement system policy improvements, new workflow, and processes.
  • Completes a minimum of 20 hrs/year of continuing compliance education.

Qualifications

Education
  • Associate's Degree in Accounting, Finance or Business Administration OR combination of education, training and experience with increasing responsibility in physician contracting and benchmarking- Required
  • Bachelor's Degree in Accounting, Finance or Business Administration- Preferred
 
Certification & Licensures
  • Healthcare Compliance- Preferred
  • Compensation Professional- Preferred
 
Experience
  • Minimum 3 years experience in Healthcare, Accounting or Finance- Required
  • Medical Groups contracts experience- Required

    Healthcare is a rapidly changing environment and technology is integrated into almost all aspects of patient care. Computers and other electronic devices are utilized across the organization and throughout each department. Colleagues must have an understanding of computers, and competence in using computers and basic software programs.