Healthcare Contract Specialist I — Cost & Compliance

Aiken-Regional-Medical-Centers-3; Westcliff (SC); On-site; USD 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Aiken Regional Medical Centers in Aiken, SC seeks a Contract Specialist I to help optimize costs by validating vendor contracts and prices, ensuring correct item numbers, and supporting billing with contract compliance for patient care.

You will review vendor invoicing for surgical items, resolve pricing discrepancies with local reps, create requisitions, assist the billing office with pricing and item numbers, and perform monthly high-value order reporting to aid expense accruals.

Qualifications

• High School or equivalent required.
• 3-5 years of supply chain analysis experience.
• Healthcare supply chain experience preferred.
• Projects a positive attitude, demonstrated teamwork competencies, and a strong work ethic.
• Capacity to identify and resolve pricing and contract validity issues.
• Clinical understanding and ability to support large entities and/or a large number of entities.
• Focused attention to detail
• Effective written and verbal communication.
• Ability to use Microsoft Office Suite applications.
• Ability to use ECM, ECRI, Citrix, and Meperia MSS.

Responsibilities

• Reviews vendor invoicing of surgical items to ensure contract prices and items match.
• Resolves pricing discrepancies with local vendor reps; escalates unresolved issues.
• Creates requisitions for disposable product orders; ensures units and pricing are correct.
• Assists billing with supply pricing and item number information for billing.
• Performs monthly reporting on high value orders not yet issued a PO.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Skills

Supply chain analysis

Attention to detail

Communication skills

Microsoft Office

Education

High School or equivalent

Tools

ECM

ECRI

Citrix

Meperia MSS

Job description

Aiken Regional Medical Centers in Aiken, SC seeks a Contract Specialist I to help optimize costs by validating vendor contracts and prices, ensuring correct item numbers, and supporting billing with contract compliance for patient care.

You will review vendor invoicing for surgical items, resolve pricing discrepancies with local reps, create requisitions, assist the billing office with pricing and item numbers, and perform monthly high-value order reporting to aid expense accruals.