Nurse Case Manager Lead

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Location: Overland Park KS

Hours: M F Standard Working hours

Travel: This role enables associates to work virtually full-time, with the exception of required in-person training sessions, providing maximum flexibility and autonomy. This approach promotes productivity, supports work-life integration, and ensures essential face-to-face onboarding and skill development.

Position Overview:

Responsible for care coordination within the scope of licensure for members with complex and chronic care needs by assessing, developing, implementing, coordinating, monitoring, and evaluating care plans designed to optimize member health care across the care continuum and ensuring member access to services appropriate to their health needs. Performs duties telephonically or virtually as needed.

How You Will Make an Impact:

• Support team conducting assessments to identify individual needs and a specific care management plan to address objectives and goals as identified during assessment

• Support teams implementing care plan by facilitating authorizations/referrals as appropriate within benefits structure or through extra-contractual arrangements

• Coordinates internal and external resources to meet identified needs

• Monitors and evaluates effectiveness of the care management plan and modifies as necessary

• Interfaces with Medical Directors and Physician Advisors on the development of care management treatment plans

• Assists in problem solving with providers, claims or service issues

• Assists with development of utilization/care management policies and procedures, chairs and schedules meetings, as well as presents cases for discussion at Grand Rounds/Care Conferences and participates in interdepartmental and/or cross brand workgroups

• May require the development of a focused skill set including comprehensive knowledge of specific disease process or traumatic injury and functions as preceptor for new care management staff

• Participates in audit activities and assists supervisor with management of day-to-day activities, such as monitoring and prioritizing workflow, delivering constructive coaching and feedback, and developing associated corrective action plans at direction of the manager

• Serves as first line contact for conflict resolution. Develops training materials, completes quality audits, performs process evaluations, and tests and monitors systems/process enhancements

Required Qualifications:

• Requires a BA/BS in a health related field and 5 years of clinical experience; or any combination of education and experience, which would provide an equivalent background

• Current, unrestricted RN license in applicable state(s) required.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with Kansas Medicaid Case management or Care coordination Strongly preferred

• Leadership experience preferred

• Experience in field work strongly preferred

• Advanced Microsoft office suite experience (Excel, word, Powerpoint)

• Data analysis experience preferred

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Who We Are

Elevance Health is a health company dedicated to improving lives and communities and making healthcare simpler. We are a Fortune 25 company with a longstanding history in the healthcare industry, looking for leaders at all levels of the organization who are passionate about making an impact on our members and the communities we serve.

How We Work

At Elevance Health, we are creating a culture that is designed to advance our strategy but will also lead to personal and professional growth for our associates. Our values and behaviors are the root of our culture. They are how we achieve our strategy, power our business outcomes and drive our shared success - for our consumers, our associates, our communities and our business.

We offer a range of market-competitive total rewards that include merit increases, paid holidays, Paid Time Off, and incentive bonus programs (unless covered by a collective bargaining agreement), medical, dental, vision, short and long term disability benefits, 401(k) +match, stock purchase plan, life insurance, wellness programs and financial education resources, to name a few.

Elevance Health operates in a Hybrid Workforce Strategy. Unless specified as primarily virtual by the hiring manager, associates are required to work at an Elevance Health location at least once per week, and potentially several times per week. Specific requirements and expectations for time onsite will be discussed as part of the hiring process.

The health of our associates and communities is a top priority for Elevance Health. We require all new candidates in certain patient/member-facing roles to become vaccinated against COVID-19 and Influenza. If you are not vaccinated, your offer will be rescinded unless you provide an acceptable explanation. Elevance Health will also follow all relevant federal, state and local laws.

Elevance Health is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, citizenship status, color, creed, disability, ethnicity, genetic information, gender (including gender identity and gender expression), marital status, national origin, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, veteran status or any other status or condition protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws. Applicants who require accommodation to participate in the job application process may contact elevancehealthjobssupport@elevancehealth.com for assistance. Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state, and local laws, including, but not limited to, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance and the California Fair Chance Act.