Medicaid Program Specialist 3 (PCN 067010)

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 the residency definition to determine if you qualify.

What you will be doing:
Within the Quality Assurance Section this role supports Medicaid program oversight by conducting comprehensive reviews of provider compliance claims and utilization. Responsibilities include

These activities strengthen Medicaid program oversight promote provider compliance and help identify and reduce fraud waste abuse and inappropriate expenditures of Medicaid funds.

Our organization mission and culture:
The Department of Health Medicaid Program Integrity is a small team whose mission is to preserve and protect the integrity of the Medicaid program by proactively developing strategies to identify deter and prevent fraud waste and abuse.

The benefits of joining our team:
This position provides you with an opportunity to work with a team of professionals dedicated to safeguarding the integrity of the Medicaid program by proactively developing strategies to prevent fraud waste and abuse. Our team encourages continual learning including training opportunities through the Medicaid Integrity Institute (MII) hosted by Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) the National Association for Medicaid Program Integrity (NAMPI) and the National Health Care Anti-Fraud Association (NHCAA). Team members currently enjoy a hybrid work schedule that includes time in the office and time teleworking and encourages a collaborative and supportive work environment.

The working environment you can expect:
This position is in the Frontier Building in midtown Anchorage a secure office space with free parking. We offer a professional office environment with daily collaboration among dedicated colleagues and offer a hybrid work schedule.

Who we are looking for:
The ideal candidate will possess some or all of the following position-specific competencies in addition to the minimum qualifications listed below:

Competency-Based Minimum Qualifications Instructions
This 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 rather than 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 successfully meet the competency but rather to provide the manager/agency with a broad reference of options as to how an applicant can meet the job expectation.

Any combination of education and/or experience that provides the applicant with competencies in:

equivalent to those typically gained by:

Progressively responsible professional experiencesuch 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;processing medical claims using medical coding and medical billing knowledge; 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.

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

At the time of the interview please provide the following:

1. Three (3) professional references whom we may contact by phone are required. One (1) of these references must be your current or most recent supervisor if not already provided in the application.
2. Current performance evaluation if available.
3. A copy of academic transcripts (unofficial is okay; please ensure that the institution name/URL is listed on the transcripts) is used to support that you meet the minimum qualifications competencies.

Please read the information below carefully. This applies to your application submission.

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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Name/Title: Kandi Stewart Medicaid Program Specialist 4
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