Medical Staff Privileging/OPPE Coordinator/CUSA Support

Oregon Health & Science University; Portland (OR); Remote; USD 71,000 - 96,000; Full time

Job summary

The Oregon Health & Science University is seeking a Medical Staff Privileging/OPPE Coordinator/CUSA Support to join the Medical Affairs team. This remote, full-time role supports privileging, OPPE/FPPE programs, and credentialing system reporting to ensure compliance and high-quality care.

Responsibilities include leading privileging activities, maintaining content in Credential Stream, and providing training and consultation to Medical Staff leaders.

Qualifications

• Three years of experience administering or coordinating parts or subsets of a project or program.
• Bachelor’s degree may substitute for two years of experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design, development, and improvement of privileging processes to ensure regulatory alignment.
• Coordinate OPPE/FPPE, develop metrics tied to privilege criteria and clinical performance.
• Maintain credentialing data in Credential Stream and provide backup reporting support.
• Provide education and consultation on privileging and evaluation processes.
• Support continuous improvement and regulatory compliance across Medical Affairs.

Skills

Project coordination

Regulatory knowledge

Stakeholder communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in business administration, management, public administration, or related field

Tools

CredentialStream

Job description

Medical Staff Privileging/OPPE Coordinator/CUSA Support

US--Remote

Requisition ID: 2026-41517

Position Category: Administrative/Office Support

Job Type: AFSCME union represented

Position Type: Regular Full-Time

Posting Department: Medical Affairs

Posting Salary Range: $34.15 - $46.15 per hour with offer based on experience, education and internal equity

Posting FTE: 1.00

Posting Schedule: Monday - Friday

Posting Hours: 8:30am - 5:00pm

HR Mission: Healthcare

Drug Testable: No

Department Overview

The OHSU Health Medical Affairs Department supports physicians, advanced practice providers, and clinical leaders through credentialing, privileging, medical staff governance, practitioner performance evaluation, and regulatory compliance. Partnering across the OHSU Health System, the team helps ensure qualified practitioners deliver safe, high-quality patient care while meeting accreditation and regulatory requirements in support of OHSU's mission of healing, teaching, and discovery.

The Medical Staff Privileging and OPPE Coordinator serves as a subject matter expert within Medical Affairs, responsible for the development, implementation, and continuous improvement of medical staff privileging processes. This role ensures that privilege delineation criteria, OPPE (Ongoing Professional Practice Evaluation), and FPPE (Focused Professional Practice Evaluation) processes are compliant with regulatory, accreditation, and organizational standards.

Under the direction of the Director of Medical Affairs, the Coordinator leads the development of privileging activities, supports FPPE/OPPE processes, and serves as a key resource for these duties to Medical Staff leaders and stakeholders. This position also provides back-up support for credentialing system reporting (Credential Stream) to ensure continuity of data access and reporting capabilities.

Function/Duties of Position

Privileging program leadership and coordination

• Serve as the subject matter expert for medical staff privileging for OHSUand HMC.
• Lead the coordination, development, standardization, and continuousimprovement of privileging processes, ensuring alignment with regulatory (CMS, DNV) and organizational requirements.
• Collaborate with Medical Staff leadership, clinical departments, andadministrative stakeholders to ensure consistent application of privileging standards.
• Facilitate communication, problem-solving, and project coordination related to privileging initiatives.
• Prepare and present reports, analyses, and recommendations to Medical Staff committees and leadership.

Privileging criteria development and maintenance.

• Lead the design, development, and revision of privilege delineation formsand associated criteria.
• Conduct research and benchmarking to ensure evidence-based, current, anddefensible privileging criteria.
• Coordinate interdisciplinary review and approval processes for new andrevised privilege forms.
• Perform ongoing audits and routine reviews to ensure accuracy, consistency, and compliance of all privilege documents.
• Maintain privileging content within the credentialing database to ensurereal-time accuracy and accessibility

OPPE and FPPE Program Coordination

• Coordinate and oversee the implementation and ongoing management ofOngoing Professional Practice Evaluation (OPPE) and Focused Professional Practice Evaluation (FPPE) processes.
• Partner with Medical Staff leaders to develop meaningful, specialty-specific OPPE/FPPE metrics tied to privilege criteria and clinical performance.
• Ensure timely data collection, analysis, reporting, and follow-up actions forOPPE/FPPE activities.
• Monitor compliance with accreditation standards and support continuousimprovement of practitioner performance evaluation systems.

Credentialing systems and data management

• Maintain and optimize privileging and evaluation data within thecredentialing system (Credential Stream).
• Serve as backup support to the Computer User System Analyst (CUSA) forthe credentialing database, including:
  • Running standard and ad hoc reports
  • Supporting data extraction, validation, and analysis
  • Assisting with system workflows related to privileging, OPPE, andFPPE
• Ensure data integrity, accuracy, and compliance with privacy and securitystandards.

Education, training and consultation

• Act as a recourse for medical staff, leadership, and Medical Affairspersonnel regarding privileging criteria, OPPE/FPPE processes and regulatory expectations.
• Provide training and education on privilege forms, evaluation methodologiesand system workflows.
• Support ongoing competency development of staff related to privileging andevaluation processes.

Required Qualifications

• Three years of experience administering or coordinating parts or subsets of a project or program.
• A bachelor’s degree in business administration, Management, Public Administration, or a field directly related to the position will substitute for two years of the required experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with CredentialStream.
• Medical coding knowledge
• CPCS or CPMSM

Additional Details

Work is performed in a remote office environment. Requires prolonged periods of sitting and computer-based work, with frequent interaction via email, virtual platforms, and phone. May require attendance at meetings outside of standard business hours. Work schedule is Monday through Friday in the Pacific Standard time zone. A flex schedule may be available after successful completion of six-month probationary period.

Equal employment opportunity, including veterans and individuals with disabilities.

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