Payer Strategy Lead — Growth & Partnerships

SCA Health; United States; On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

SCA Health is seeking an Associate Director for its Catalyst team. You will advance payer relationships to support growth across a multi-state, multi-facility portfolio and influence contracting strategies impacting financial results.

You will partner with cross-functional teams in contract negotiations, business development, finance and operations to deliver strategic payer initiatives and drive revenue growth.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree and at minimum 8 years of direct experience.
• 3+ years health plan contracting/healthcare operational/revenue cycle.
• Experience in a payer contracting role – health plan, provider, or ancillary contracting - or equivalent health care facility operations experience.
• Experience in commercial payer strategies, pricing, and reimbursement.
• Collaborative, creative, disciplined, driven and influential.
• Ability to heavily leverage data and execute on defined action plans.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Travel to health plan meetings, company meetings, center visits, etc. (20%)

Responsibilities

• Develop Differentiated Payer Relationships: Teammate will be viewed by payers as a problem solver and will grow and advance payer relationships.
• Enable Strategic Acquisitions: Partner with Development and Operations to identify growth opportunities and lead rate analyses.
• Enable Organizational Alignment to Grow Revenue: Owns rate growth with cross-functional collaboration and contracting strategies across facilities/geographies.
• Accurate, timely and actionable growth metrics and reporting: Deliver metrics to Operations and Finance for revenue and volume growth awareness.
• Demonstrates Success Behaviors: Driven, Collaborative, Essentialist, Creative, Influential.

Skills

Payer contracting experience

Payer strategies

Communication skills

Travel willingness

Healthcare operations

Data-driven

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Job description

SCA Health is seeking an Associate Director for its Catalyst team. You will advance payer relationships to support growth across a multi-state, multi-facility portfolio and influence contracting strategies impacting financial results.

You will partner with cross-functional teams in contract negotiations, business development, finance and operations to deliver strategic payer initiatives and drive revenue growth.