Compliance Administrator - Rural Region

Compliance Administrator - Rural Region

About Us
What does it mean to be a part of Intermountain Healthcare? It means that the quest for clinical excellence is not just a goal, but a given. It means building an environment where physicians and employees can deliver the best in medicine. And it’s realizing each employee or volunteer is vital to the healing process, because we can only achieve the extraordinary together. 

Being a part of Intermountain Healthcare means joining with a world-class team of over 32,000 employees and embarking on a career filled with opportunities, strength, innovation, and fulfillment. Our mission is: excellence in the provision of healthcare services to communities in the Intermountain region.

Our patients deserve the best in medicine, and we deliver.

Job Description

To facilitate accountability and culture of compliance and ethics, ensure quality of care and reduce Intermountain's risk of Government audits, fines, penalties and sanctions. This position functions as the regional point person for all compliance activities with responsibilities including, but not limited to, roles of: consultant, investigator, educator, coordinator, and liaison for administration. This position will be accountable for an open-ended portfolio of highly complex and sensitive projects and processes and may be involved with actual implementation of initiatives, oversight, support, monitoring or committee involvement to ensure successful implementation and sustainment. In addition to assignment of activities, this position is expected to proactively identify specific compliance issues and communicate these issues to the Corporate Compliance office. This position interacts and works with regional leadership, Intermountain's Corporate Compliance Department, Intermountain executives, Intermountain's Legal Department, Compliance and Privacy Coordinators, Work Group Compliance Specialists, Clinical Programs directors, physicians and staff. Identified issues requiring this positions' interaction may involve and/or overlap between multiple region, clinical and non-clinical areas.

Job Essentials:

• Assists regional member of the Health Services Executive Compliance Committee in implementation of regulation dissemination and action plans
• Functions as interdepartmental (clinical, PAS, HIS, HR, Quality, risk management) liaison to ensure completion of corrective action plans including, but not limited to: corrected claims, process changes, disciplinary actions, etc.
• Accountable to maintain a system of management reporting and documentation that provides timely and relevant information to appropriate administration, Corporate Compliance and clinical leadership
• Performs investigation of potentially non-compliant facility, employee, or contractor conduct; Responsibility for explaining consequences of non-compliance to site personnel
• Responsible to identify potential areas of compliance vulnerability and risk and to outline needed education, auditing and corrective plans to address these areas of potential vulnerability
• Accountable to escalate potential high-risk issues through management and the Corporate Compliance Program
•   Serves as a resource to review and resolve patient and employee complaints, concerns, or questions related to compliance issues and to provide consultative leadership and support as appropriate
• Responsible to support the performance of audits and ensure the implementation of appropriate plans of correction
• Responsible for promotion and awareness of positive ethical and moral principles consistent with the Mission, Vision, and Values of Intermountain Healthcare

Minimum Requirements

• Ma st er's Degree; Degree is verified and must be obtained through an accredited institution
• 7 years experience in a health care operations role working with regulatory, compliance and ethics programs
• 5 years experience in a role requiring project management and critical thinking skills
• 5 years experience in a role requiring the ability to adapt interactions to required levels of oversight, implementation or support and demonstrate strong problem solving and organizational skills
• Demonstrated ability to effectively and confidentially advise and interact with all levels of personnel and clearly communicate complex issues and concepts orally and in writing
• Experience in a role requiring demonstrated ability to manage complex projects that overlap between several clinical and/or business areas and work with a high degree of flexibility in a rapidly changing environment
• Knowledge of, and experience with, health care regulations; understanding of the health care delivery system as it relates to government agencies, third party payers, physicians, other health care professionals, hospitals and non-hospital care delivery sites
• Ability to efficiently use computer programs such as Microsoft Word, Excel, Access and other programs necessary to complete work requirements; Experience using word processing, spreadsheet, database, internet and e-mail and scheduling applications and demonstrating effective training and presentation skills

Ph ysical Requirements

• Sp ea king, hearing !listening, seeing, manual dexterity

Pr eferred Qualifications

• Leadership experience

Plea se Note
All positions subject to close without notice
Intermountain Healthcare is an equal opportunity employer M/F/D/V