Medical Staff Credential Coordinator

Now Hiring: Medical Staff Credential Coordinator

Location: 1100 Central Ave SE Albuquerque, NM 87106-4930

Compensation Pay Range: Minimum Offer $41,808.00 Maximum Offer $71,156.80

Summary: Build your Career. Make a Difference. Presbyterian is hiring a skilled Medical Staff Credential Coordinator to support the Medical and Allied Health Staff credentialing/primary sourcing verification program by coordinating and developing internal processes in order to meet requirements of federal and state regulatory and national accreditation agencies. Monitors timeliness of processes and provides feedback and/or reports to the appropriate manager. Audits accuracy of data entry in the credentialing database and provides feedback to appropriate internal and external customers. This position requires in-depth knowledge of medical and allied health staff credentialing processes and requirements. Investigates issues of concern and conducts follow-up as needed, generates reports and presents findings to the Manager of Medical Staff Affairs (MSA) or Manager of Credentials Verification Organization (CVO). Serves as a subject matter expert to other PHS departments and facilities as it relates to the processing of initial and/or reappointment applications and/or privileging.

Type of Opportunity: Full time Job Exempt: Yes Job is based: Presbyterian Hospital Work Shift: Days (United States of America)

Responsibilities:

• Assists the Medical Director Department leadership in managing activities to ensure a coordinated effort to fulfill departmental responsibilities within its long-range plans and goals
• Exercises discretion and independent judgment involving the comparison and the evaluation of possible courses of action related to meeting primary source verification and credentialing requirements. Acts or reaches decisions independently after the various possibilities have been considered. * Investigates discrepancies in data submittal related to applications and privileging and formulates appropriate course of action.
• Provides excellent customer service by responding to provider, client, and customer inquiries within specified timeframes, as required by the department
• Maintains statistical information relative to the departments quality indicators
• Responsible for orientation/training of new and current employees as it relates to departmental procedures, credentialing database, and daily work
• Serves as a subject matter expert on appropriate national accreditation agencies and federal/state regulations pertaining to required credentialing processes
• Maintains knowledge base of appropriate national accrediting agencies

Qualifications:

• Associates Degree/Diploma in medical staff services studies, or a related field preferred.
• Three to five years experience in medical staff affairs/credentialing, credentials verification organization, or related field preferred.
• Public relation skills required in order to be effective and behave in a professional manner when dealing with practitioners and customers.
• Requires excellent time management and organizational skills in order to handle multiple projects simultaneously.
• Certification or eligibility for certification as a Certified Professional Medical Services Management (CPMSM) or Certified Provider Credentialing Specialist (CPCS) preferred.

All benefits-eligible Presbyterian employees receive a comprehensive benefits package that includes medical, dental, vision, short-term and long-term disability, group term life insurance and other optional voluntary benefits.

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Why work at Presbyterian? As an organization, we are committed to improving the health of our communities. From hosting growers' markets to partnering with local communities, Presbyterian is taking active steps to improve the health of New Mexicans.

About Presbyterian Healthcare Services Presbyterian exists to improve the health of patients, members, and the communities we serve. We are locally owned, not-for-profit healthcare system of nine hospitals, a statewide health plan and a growing multi-specialty medical group. Founded in New Mexico in 1908, we are the state's largest private employer with nearly 14,000 employees - including more than 1600 providers and nearly 4,700 nurses.

Our health plan serves more than 580,000 members statewide and offers Medicare Advantage, Medicaid (Centennial Care) and Commercial health plans.

AA/EOE/VET/DISABLED. PHS is a drug-free and tobacco-free employer with smoke free campuses.