Senior Director, Reimbursement (Oncology)

Guardant Health, Inc.; Northern (KY); Ibrido; USD 228.000 - 313.000; Tempo pieno

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Hybrid work model

Descrizione del lavoro

Guardant Health, Inc. is seeking a Senior Director of Reimbursement (Oncology) to lead US reimbursement and market access initiatives, collaborating with payers, physicians, and providers. The role focuses on automating processes, optimizing revenue cycle, and aligning with sales strategies.

The position requires extensive experience in lab billing laws, strong leadership, and strategic program management to support new tests and products while managing internal and external stakeholders.

Competenze

• 15+ years total experience in reimbursement and billing in life sciences settings.
• 5+ years management experience with a billing team.
• Deep knowledge of payer policies, HIPAA, and regulatory requirements.

Mansioni

• Act as subject matter expert for billing and payment strategy to optimize revenue cycle management.
• Manage a team ensuring accurate processing of patient claims with high satisfaction.
• Oversee development of internal policies and SOPs aligned with regulatory requirements.

Conoscenze

Strategic reimbursement

Payer relationships

Leadership

Data analysis

Process improvement

Formazione

Bachelor's degree

MBA or related field preferred

Strumenti

SQL

Excel

Salesforce

Descrizione del lavoro

## Senior Director, Reimbursement (Oncology)Apply: Remote - Open Position (USA): Full time: Posted Yesterday: R-101254**Company Description**Guardant Health is a leading precision oncology company focused on guarding wellness and giving every person more time free from cancer. Founded in 2012, Guardant is transforming patient care and accelerating new cancer therapies by providing critical insights into what drives disease through its advanced blood and tissue tests, real-world data and AI analytics. Guardant tests help improve outcomes across all stages of care, including screening to find cancer early, monitoring for recurrence in early-stage cancer, and treatment selection for patients with advanced cancer. For more information, visit guardanthealth.com and follow the company on LinkedIn, X (Twitter) and Facebook.**Position Summary:**The Senior Director of Reimbursement has in-depth expertise in developing and implementing strategic and tactical reimbursement/market access initiatives in the US. A key focus of this position is to collaborate with Guardant Health insurance companies, physicians, hospitals and government agencies. The role is also focused on supporting internal and external customers as well as key stakeholders in all aspects of the reimbursement process. The internal support will rely heavily on program management software infrastructure projects to automate processes to maximize efficiency and claim reimbursement. These skills would include eligibility automation, prior authorization automation, LIMS integration with the cloud sourced billing tool and Salesforce. The candidate should have significant knowledge in laboratory billing laws regulations and compliance activities to ensure that when interfacing with new product development they are able to provide guidance around the parameters required to successfully commercialize new tests. The candidate is highly skilled at developing relationships as well as working across the organization to achieve reimbursement and patient access goals that are aligned with sales and marketing strategies. **Essential Duties and Responsibilities:*** Acts as company subject matter expert in billing and payment strategy focusing on optimizing revenue cycle management to achieve maximum reimbursement.* Manages a team to ensure approval and correct processing of patient claims to insurance companies with high customer satisfaction.* Oversees the design and build a Patient Financial Assistance Program* Partners with our internal resources to develop internal metrics and optimization strategies for data and history, enabling development of simple and easily accessible data that will be used to direct our reimbursement strategy for new and exsiting products* Patners with internal and external software developers to enable automated workflows and process efficiency for RCM* Oversees the strategy and development of internal operational policies and SOPs that will scale with the organization* Builds and sustains positive partnerships with Payers and Providers, to ensure processes are in place to ensure contracts are loaded and claims adjudication is managed in a manner consistent with contractual or regulatory language* Collaborates with internal and external stakeholders to successfully resolve challenges with patient billing and other provider issues* Manages and supports the operational and administrative process for billing, ensuring efficient, effective and compliant revenue cycle management* Interfaces regularly with finance to be able to help with FP&A as well as SOX and determination of ASP for products **Qualifications:*** 15+ years total experience, 5+ years professional experience in Reimbursement and Billing in a life sciences, payer setting, 5+ years management experience with a billing team* Bachelor’s degree required; graduate degree in a related field such as public health or public policy preferred* Open to travel up to 15%* Experienced working with payers as a laboratory that bills molecular tests* Experience and knowledge of federal and state legislative environments and regulatory processes to dissect complex scenarios and are able to bring issues to swift resolution* Expert in medical billing, third party payers and patient interface, patient privacy and confidentiality paramount* Follow payer policy activities on coverage and payment technology processes and practices* In-depth knowledge of SOP development in a HIPAA-compliant environment and molecular billing codes and regulations* A highly effective people manager and have experience in vendor management, with a keen focus on optimizing processes and practices in a rapidly changing environment.* Program management and systems engineering skills are a significant plus to assist with process design* Strong analysis skills and ability to interface a variety of software tools to quickly perform analyses to answer questions and make decisions. Excel skills are mandatory, SQL or other databasing skills are desirable* AI and or PowerAutomate experience a significant plus **AI & Digital Fluency*** Demonstrate curiosity, sound judgment, and the ability to critically evaluate and responsibly leverage AI-enabled tools in accordance with company policies, ethical standards, and regulatory requirements to improve the efficiency, effectiveness, and quality of work. **Hybrid Work Model:****This section is applicable to onsite employees who are eligible for hybrid work location as specified by management and related policies. Guardant has defined days for in-person/onsite collaboration and work-from-home days for individual-focused time. All U.S. employees who live within 50 miles of a Guardant facility will be required to be onsite on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays. We have found aligning our scheduled in-office days allows our teams to do the best work and creates the focused thinking time our innovative work requires. At Guardant, our work model has created flexibility for better work-life balance while keeping teams connected to advance our science for our patients.** The annualized base salary ranges for the primary location and any additional locations are listed below. This range does not include benefits or, if applicable, bonus, commission, or equity. Each candidate’s compensation offer will be based on multiple factors including, but not limited to, geography, experience, education, job-related skills, job duties, and business need.Primary Location: Remote - Open Position (USA)Primary Location Base Pay Range: $227,970 - $313,480Other US Location(s) Base Pay Range: $227,970 - $313,480If the role is performed in Colorado, the pay range for this job is: $241,380 - $331,920*Employee may be required to lift routine office supplies and use office equipment. Majority of the work is performed in a desk/office environment; however, there may be exposure to high noise levels, fumes, and biohazard material in the laboratory environment. Ability to sit for extended periods of time.*