Medicaid Program Specialist 4 (Surveillance and Utilization Review Supervisor PCN 064034)

Anchorage, AK - USA

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 3 days ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Job Description

This Individual Position is Exempt from the Hiring Freeze. Qualified Applicants are Encouraged To Apply.

Welcome to the Department of Health!

Wed be delighted to have you join our team.

If you envision yourself in this role and are ready to start an exciting career with us apply today!

This position is open to Alaskan Residents only.

Please check out theresidency definitionto determine if you qualify.

What You Will Be Doing:
This position in the Quality Assurance section leads a team supporting Alaskas Medicaid fraud waste and abuse prevention efforts. Responsibilities include overseeing provider post-payment reviews reviewing medical records analyzing data recovering overpayments and following up on tips and leads from data analysis explanation of benefits and the fraud and abuse hotline.

The role also oversees patient-focused initiatives serving vulnerable Alaskans including the Care Management Program and the Alaska Medicaid Coordinated Care Initiative.

Mission and Values/Culture:
The Health Care Services missionis to: Provide all eligible Alaskans with access to and oversight of the full range of appropriate Medicaid services. We also protect Alaskas most vulnerable populations through our certification and licensing programs.

The Health Care Services visionis to: Innovate health plans that improve quality of health care for all Alaskans attract excellent providers and deliver outstanding customer service.

Division of Health Care Services core values: Through quality service prudent use of resources and satisfied productive employees we will promote good health for the people we serve via ACCESS:

Articulate
Competent
Constructive
Ethical
Strategic
Sincere

If you embrace these values and want to assist in HCSs mission we encourage you to apply today.

Benefits of Joining Our Team:
The Quality Assurance team offers excellent opportunities for professional growth and career development. Team members regularly collaborate with Division leadership across the Department of Health on investigations and special projects gaining valuable experience and visibility.

This role also works closely with federal oversight partners providing meaningful high-impact addition the team supports work-life balance with a flexible hybrid schedule that includes a mix of in-office and remote workdays.

The Working Environment You Can Expect:
Our office space is in the heart of Anchorage close to many amenities such as shopping parks and dining. The workspace is clean bright and features mountain views from the office suite. This position also features an assigned parking space for convenience.

Who We Are Looking For:

Decision Maker: Makes sound well-informed and objective decisions; perceives the impact and implications of decisions; commits to action even in uncertain situations to accomplish organizational goals; causes change.
Managing Performance:Takes responsibility for employees performance by setting and communicating expectations and goals that are specific and measurable tracking progress against the goals supporting employees efforts to achieve job goals (by providing resources removing obstacles acting as a buffer etc.) ensuring feedback and addressing performance problems and issues promptly.
Reading Comprehension: Understands and interprets written material including technical material rules regulations instructions reports charts graphs or tables; applies what is learned from written material to specific situations.

To view the general description and example of duties for this job class please go to the following link and search forMedicaid Program Specialist 4: Qualifications

Competency-Based Minimum Qualifications InstructionsThis job class uses competency-based minimum qualifications.Please ensure your application(through work history volunteer experience (duties summary) training education licenses certifications etc.) supports how you have gained the knowledge skills abilities and behaviors (competencies) and that you possess the minimum required competencies for the job class.

Competency Description
The competency description(s) listed below have been designed to promote a common understanding of the essential elements of the job class. They highlight the more general and customary knowledge skills abilities (KSAs) tasks and behaviors used to describe the competency. They typically list expectations instead of specific tasks and are to be used only as parameters and guidelines. A competencys description is not intended to exclusively define every KSA task and behavior needed to meet the competency successfully but rather to provide the manager/agency with a broad reference of options as to how an applicant can meet the job expectation.

Please ensure your application (through work history training education licenses certifications etc.) supports/demonstrates you possess the minimum required competencies for the job class.

Minimum Qualifications:
Any combination of education and/or experience that provides the applicant with competencies in:
Analytical Thinking/Problem Solving:Uses a logical systematic and sequential approach to address problems or opportunities or manage a situation by drawing on ones knowledge and experience base and calling on other references and resources as necessary.
Oral Communication:Expresses information (for example ideas or facts) to individuals or groups effectively taking into account the audience and nature of the information (for example technical sensitive controversial); makes clear and convincing oral presentations; listens to others attends to nonverbal cues and responds appropriately.
Organizational Awareness:Knows the organizations mission and functions and how its social political and technological systems work and operates effectively within them; this includes the programs policies procedures rules and regulations of the organization.
Technical Expertise:Effectively applies technical knowledge to solve a range of problems; develops technical solutions to new or highly complex problems that cannot be solved using existing methods or approaches; is sought out as an expert to provide advice or solutions in the technical area.
Written Communication:Writes in a clear concise organized and convincing manner for the intended audience.
Equivalent to those typically gained by:
Progressively responsible professional experience such as supporting the administration of a Medicaid or Medicare program health insurance service health insurance management information system health insurance finance or accounting program Supplemental Security Income benefits or vocational rehabilitation program; auditing or monitoring medical or public assistance programs for fraud or quality assurance; designing developing testing for quality assurance and implementing an information system and/or training or education which includes such course work as business administration computer sciences economics healthcare legal studies medical billing or coding public health public assistance psychology.

Special Note:
Competencies means a combination of interrelated knowledge skills abilities and behaviors that enable a person to act effectively in a job or situation.

Professional experience means work that is creative analytical evaluative and interpretive; requires a range and depth of specialized knowledge of the professions principles concepts theories and practices; and is performed with the power or right to decide or act according to ones own judgment.

Progressively responsible means indicating growth and/or advancement in complexity difficulty or level of responsibility.

Training and education in this guidance are synonyms for the process of acquiring knowledge and skills through instruction. It includes instruction through formal and informal methods (such as classroom on-line self-study and on-the-job) from accredited and unaccredited sources and long-duration (such as a post-secondary degree) and short-duration (such as a seminar) programs.

Typically gained by means the prevalent usual method of gaining the competencies expected for entry into the job.

Additional Required Information

At the time of the interview please provide the following:

Three (3) professional references whom we may contact by phone one (1) of whom must be your current or most recent supervisor if not already provided in the application.
A copy of academic transcripts (unofficial are okay; please ensure that the institution name/URL is listed on the transcripts) is used to support that you meet the minimum qualification competencies.
A Technical writing sample.

SUPPLEMENTAL QUESTIONS

For your application to be evaluated youmustanswer the Supplemental Questions.

The State of Alaska uses four proficiency levels to measure and describe an applicants level of competence in applying certain behaviors knowledge skills and abilities to accomplish a specific task. The four proficiency levels are Mastery Fluency Literacy and Discovery. You must rate your proficiency level for each competency listed in the supplemental questions.

EDUCATION
To verify education is being used to meet and/or support the required minimum qualifications/competencies you must fill in the Education section of the application If you have not obtained a degree please indicate the number of units completed Copies of transcripts are required to verify educational credentials used to meet or support the minimum qualifications/competencies for a position and are required with each application (Unofficial is okay; please ensure the institution/URL name is listed on the transcripts) Transcripts can be attached at the time of application or provided at the time of interview; if not transcripts will be required before employment.

SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS FOR FOREIGN EDUCATION
If education is completed in a foreign college or university it may be used to meet the above requirements if applicable. If utilizing this education you must show that the education credentials have been submitted to a private organization that specializes in the interpretation of foreign educational credentials and that such education has been deemed to be at least equivalent to that gained in conventional U.S. education programs or an accredited U.S. state university reports the other institution as one whose transcript is given full value or full value is given in subject areas applicable to the curricula at the state university.It is your responsibility to provide such evidence when applying.The omission of the required documentation listed will result in an incomplete application and you will not receive further consideration.

WORK EXPERIENCE
When using work experience not documented in your application please provide the employers name job title employment dates and whether you worked full-time or part-time Applications will be reviewed to determine if the responses are supported and if minimum qualifications are met Work experience needed to meet the minimum qualifications must be documented in the application If the application does not support minimum qualifications the applicant may not advance to the interview and selection phase of the recruitment.A resume will not be used to determine that minimum qualifications have been met for the position you are applying for.

If you have currently or previously been appointed to a flexibly staffed position please ensure your work experience within a flexibly staffed position indicates the actual dates employed at each level Ensure your time and any subsequent flex promotion(s) are documented as a separate position This is required as minimum qualifications require experience at a particular level in which the lower level may not be considered If this information is not accurately reflected in your application this may cause the processing of your application for consideration to be delayed.

NOTE: Attaching a resume or curriculum vitae is not an alternative to filling out the application.Noting see resume or CV or any similar response on any portion of your application may lead to a determination that your application is incomplete and removal from consideration for this job posting.

The State of Alaska does not provide VISA Employer sponsorships.

MULTIPLE VACANCIES
This recruitment may be used for more than one (1) vacancy. The applicant pool acquired during this recruitment may be used for future vacancies for up to ninety (90) days after this recruitment closes. Interested applicants are encouraged to apply to each recruitment notice to ensure consideration for all vacancies.

APPLICATION NOTICE
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Contact Information

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Job DescriptionThis Individual Position is Exempt from the Hiring Freeze. Qualified Applicants are Encouraged To Apply.Welcome to the Department of Health!Wed be delighted to have you join our team.If you envision yourself in this role and are ready to start an exciting career with us apply today!Th...