MD-Staff Systems Expert - Payer Enrollment

HealthShift Leaders; United States; Remote; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

A consulting firm specializing in healthcare operations seeks an experienced MD-Staff Systems Expert to optimize payer enrollment workflows and enhance system integrity. The ideal candidate will have at least 3 years of hands-on experience with MD-Staff, alongside strong analytical and problem-solving skills. This remote position requires collaboration across multiple teams to ensure operational efficiency in a large healthcare setting. If you have a passion for improving healthcare systems and a deep understanding of payer enrollment, this opportunity could be for you.

Qualifications

• At least 3 years of hands-on MD-Staff experience, including configuration and system administration.
• Strong understanding of payer enrollment processes and operational challenges involved.
• Ability to work independently in a remote environment while collaborating across multiple teams.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the MD-Staff subject matter expert for payer enrollment workflow optimization.
• Lead the cleanup, reconfiguration, and standardization of MD-Staff for payer enrollment.
• Assess workflows and data structures to identify breakdowns and improvement opportunities.

Skills

MD-Staff certification

Payer enrollment process understanding

Analytical skills

Problem-solving skills

Training and stakeholder support

Job description

Contract-to-Perm Preferred | Open to Contract Only

Remote | Optional travel to New Jersey

Company Description

HealthShift Leaders is a consulting and fractional leadership firm dedicated to helping healthcare organizations scale, optimize operations, and drive meaningful transformation. We partner with organizations on strategic initiatives, operational redesign, fractional executive leadership, and specialized talent solutions that create measurable impact.

Role Description

We are seeking an experienced MD-Staff Systems Expert - Payer Enrollment to support a major enterprise reconfiguration and cleanup effort for a large health system. This role is contract-to-perm preferred, though we are also open to contract-only candidates with the right experience.

This position is designed for a truly MD-Staff expert with strong payer enrollment expertise. The immediate focus is helping optimize and clean up payer enrollment workflows within MD-Staff, while improving overall system configuration, data integrity, reporting, and operational consistency across a highly complex enterprise environment.

This work will support a large health system spanning approximately 10,000 providers across multiple hospitals and physician groups.

What You'll Do

• Serve as the MD-Staff subject matter expert for payer enrollment workflow optimization and system improvement
• Lead or support the cleanup, reconfiguration, and standardization of MD-Staff to better support payer enrollment operations
• Assess current workflows, data structures, system setup, and reporting to identify breakdowns, inefficiencies, and opportunities for improvement
• Partner with operational leaders and stakeholders across payer enrollment, credentialing, provider data, and medical staff functions
• Improve system usability, workflow consistency, and data quality across a large multi-entity environment
• Support enterprise data cleanup, remediation, and governance efforts related to provider and enrollment data
• Strengthen reporting and operational visibility tied to payer enrollment activity and workflow performance
• Troubleshoot MD-Staff issues, recommend practical solutions, and support implementation of enhancements
• Develop training tools, job aids, and best practices to support consistent use of the platform
• Help establish a stronger long-term MD-Staff foundation for broader provider lifecycle operations

Required Qualifications

• MD-Staff certification
• At least 3 years of deep hands-on MD-Staff experience, including configuration, workflow optimization, system administration, or advanced platform management
• Demonstrated experience using MD-Staff to support payer enrollment operations, workflow design, and provider data management
• Strong understanding of payer enrollment processes and the operational challenges that impact timeliness, quality, and accuracy
• Experience with system cleanup, process redesign, data standardization, and workflow optimization
• Ability to assess ambiguous operational problems and translate them into effective system and workflow solutions
• Strong analytical, organizational, and problem-solving skills
• Ability to work independently in a remote environment while collaborating effectively across multiple teams
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including training and stakeholder support

Preferred Qualifications

• 5-8+ years of payer enrollment experience in a health system, medical group, CVO, or similarly complex healthcare environment
• Experience in a large, multi-hospital health system
• Familiarity with credentialing, privileging, provider data governance, and CVO functions
• NAMSS certification is a plus

Why This Role

This is a high-impact opportunity for someone who truly understands MD-Staff from a systems perspective and can apply that expertise to one of the most operationally important and complex areas of the provider lifecycle: payer enrollment.

• If you know someone who lives and breathes MD-Staff and understands how to make it work for payer enrollment at scale, we’d love to hear from them.