Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey empowers our members to achieve their best health. For over 90 years, we have been New Jersey’s health solutions leader driving innovations that improve health care quality, affordability, and member experience. Our members are our neighbors, our friends, and our families. It is this understanding that drives us to better serve and care for the 3.5 million people who place their trust in us. We pride ourselves on our best-in-class employees and strive to maintain an innovative and inclusive environment that allows them to thrive. When our employees bring their best and succeed, the Company succeeds.
About the Role
The position is responsible for leading the managed long term support and services program clinical care team in a hands-on manner to provide exceptional service to the customer and contain medial claims cost. This is accomplished through active involvement and leading of the day-to-day operations of a clinical care team and ensuring staff is consistent with corporate policies and procedures and are compliant with contractual, state and federal guidelines. Serves as a medical resource to members and providers, and non-clinical staff.What You'll Do
Responsibilities:
- Supervises, analyzes and coordinates the daily activities of the unit to ensure departmental productive goals are met with regards to quality timeliness, accuracy and consistency of medical decisions.
- Continuously evaluates workflow issues and seek to improve processes that impact the managed long term support and services department.
- Coordinates data collection, reviews compliance reports and identifies opportunities for service improvements.
- Recommends, develops and implements department polices and procedures and interfaces with other areas to insure consistent applications.
- Liaison between Medical Directors and staff.
- Develops and monitors goals for staff and provides ongoing feedback and coaching.
- Conducts performance reviews on an annual basis and administers salaries for the staff.
- Directs the employment activities of the office that include staffing, development, and training.
- Ensures staff meets all regulatory requirements and comprehends and complies with best practices, professional standards, internal policies, and procedures.
- Performs the operational duties of a specific clinical care team.
- Ensures an atmosphere within the team, which fosters open communication, teamwork, ownership, and empowerment to make decision.
- Develops key performance indicators to evaluate level of service for internal and external customers.
- Acts as technical expert and reference point for difficult and complex matters.
- Facilitates the creation of service and processing innovations within the team. Shares innovations with other teams and market divisions.
- Assists in preparing and monitoring the budget to ensure administrative cost objectives are met. Identifies and implements cost saving/revenue generating opportunities.
- Interprets and executes policies for the team.
- Participates in special projects initiated by the Plan.
- Assists Manager in coordinating regulatory, quality and accreditation activities.
- Represents the Plan with external customers, providers and agencies.
- Represents the department on internal committees
Disclaimer:
This job summary has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by colleagues within this classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of colleagues assigned to this job.
What You Bring
Education/Experience:
- High School Diploma/GED required
- Bachelor degree preferred or relevant experience in lieu of degree
- Requires two (2) - four (4) years acute healthcare experience.
- Prefers one (1) year experience as a supervisor.
- Prefers one (1)- three (3) years experience in the health insurance industry.
- Certification as a case manager preferred.
- Professional certification in a clinical specialty and at least three years experience as a case manager preferred.
Additional licensing, certifications, registrations:
- Active Unrestricted NJ RN/SW License Preferred. Candidates with a restricted license will not be considered.
Knowledge:
- Requires knowledge of Utilization Management (UM) and managed care principles as they relate to the CCM process and Elderly Frail /Managed Medicaid Population based CM
- Requires knowledge of the Case Management/Disease Management Standards of Practice.
- Requires knowledge of health care systems and medical documentation.
- Requires understanding of claims processing, contracting and enrollment.
- Requires knowledge of State Mandates and Regulations, including HIPAA and HCQA.
- Requires knowledge of regulatory bodies and their processes including HCFA and DOBI.
- Requires knowledge of NCQA and URAC accreditation criteria related specifically to UM/DM and Case Management.
- Requires knowledge of community health resources.
Skills and Abilities:
- Requires the ability to express thought clearly and concisely both orally and written.
- Requires the ability to obtain the skills possessed by the team members and system technical competence.
- Require the ability to effectively lead team members in diversified tasks.
- Requires excellent organizational skills.
- Requires excellent presentation skills.
- Requires the ability to think analytically and to report findings in an accurate manner.
- Requires knowledge of computers and their related software packages.
Travel (If Applicable):
- Minimum local travel required
Why Horizon?
At Horizon, you’ll do meaningful work that directly improves lives—while being supported by a mission‑driven organization that values expertise, collaboration, and growth. We believe that when our people thrive, our communities do too. If you are passionate about making an impact, we’d love to hear from you!
Salary Range:
$87,300 - $119,070This compensation range is specific to the job level and takes into account the wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions, including but not limited to: education, experience, licensure, certifications, geographic location, and internal equity. This range has been created in good faith based on information known to Horizon at the time of posting. Compensation decisions are dependent on the circumstances of each case. Horizon also provides a comprehensive compensation and benefits package which includes:
Comprehensive health benefits (Medical/Dental/Vision)
Retirement Plans
Generous PTO
Incentive Plans
Wellness Programs
Paid Volunteer Time Off
Tuition Reimbursement
Disclaimer:
Horizon BCBSNJ employees must live in New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Connecticut or Delaware. This job summary has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by colleagues within this classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of colleagues assigned to this job.
Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran status or status as an individual with a disability and any other protected class as required by federal, state or local law. Horizon will consider reasonable accommodation requests as part of the recruiting and hiring process.
Skills Required
- High School Diploma or GED
- Bachelor's degree or relevant experience (preferred)
- Two to four years acute healthcare experience
- At least one year supervisory experience (preferred)
- One to three years experience in the health insurance industry (preferred)
- Active unrestricted New Jersey RN or SW license (candidates with restricted licenses will not be considered)
- Certification as a case manager (preferred)
- Professional clinical specialty certification and at least three years case management experience (preferred)
- Knowledge of Utilization Management, managed care principles, and Case Management/Disease Management Standards of Practice
- Knowledge of claims processing, contracting, enrollment, state mandates/regulations (HIPAA, HCQA), and regulatory bodies (HCFA, DOBI)
- Familiarity with NCQA and URAC accreditation criteria related to UM/DM and Case Management
- Strong written and verbal communication, leadership, organizational, presentation, analytical, and computer/software skills
Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey and has not been reviewed or approved by Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — PTO is characterized as generous, with ample days off and holidays enhancing the overall package. This breadth of time away supports a favorable view of total rewards.
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Flexible Benefits — Remote and hybrid options are available in multiple functions and are cited as a meaningful perk. Flexibility in where work is performed contributes to overall satisfaction with rewards.
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Retirement Support — The 401(k) match is considered decent to good. Retirement offerings are viewed as a solid component of the total package.
Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey Insights
What We Do
Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey- the state’s largest and oldest health insurer - is a subsidiary of Horizon Mutual Holdings, Inc., a not-for-profit mutual holding company. Together with its affiliates, Horizon provides a wide array of medical, dental, vision and prescription insurance products and services. As New Jersey’ health solutions leader, Horizon is transforming healthcare by working with doctors and hospitals to deliver innovative, patient-centered programs that improve quality and lower costs. It is headquartered in Newark, NJ with offices in Wall and Hopewell, NJ. Horizon serves 3.7 million members including more than 1 million who rely on Medicaid for their health coverage.
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