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Accreditation Specialist II

Accreditation Specialist II

CompanyCentene
LocationKansas, USA, Texas, USA, Florida, USA, Mississippi, USA, Tennessee, USA, Minnesota, USA, Kentucky, USA, Missouri, USA, United States
Salary$68700 – $123700
TypeFull-Time
DegreesBachelor’s
Experience LevelMid Level, Senior

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Business, related field or equivalent experience
  • 4+ years of related quality and process improvement, operational experience in applicable business area
  • HEDIS and/or NCQA experience
  • Accreditation experience preferred

Responsibilities

  • Leads quality improvement activities by coordinating and performing activities related to the scheduled surveys for accreditation readiness
  • Develops accreditation activities including but not limited to policies, procedures, workflows, and templates for assigned standards within their market portfolio in collaboration with corporate and market business partners
  • Acts as a subject matter expert and provide education/guidance to direct development of compliant processes, projects, and monitoring of performance on accreditation standards to primary business owners
  • Ensures consistency of accreditation standards interpretation and process implementation
  • Creates, reviews, and finalizes projects with associated documents to ensure they meet quality standards and accreditation requirements in coordination with the markets and corporate
  • Prepares final survey submission documents validating for quality and accuracy including content compliance with accreditation and annotating and bookmarking standards
  • Initiates appropriate criteria-based accreditation reviews, follow-up, and sustainment to ensure compliance with standards, directives, or regulations
  • Identifies, documents, and assesses compliance risks and works collaboratively with key functions across the organization to drive organizational change to improve quality and ensure compliance with the accrediting body (i.e., NCQA)
  • Serves as the primary point of contact for accreditation and regulatory activities. Responsible for tracking, reporting, and ensuring the completion of action items resulting from internal and external assessments / findings related to accreditation
  • Communicates with multi-level stakeholders, providing guidance to reduce risk within the organization and collaborates with senior management to identify risk issues and address appropriately as needed
  • Analyzes data and implements action for the purpose of improving accreditation management at the service and facility level

Preferred Qualifications

  • Accreditation experience preferred