Utilization Management Nurse, Senior

Your Role

The Facility Compliance Review (FCR) team reviews post service prepayment facility claims for contract compliance, industry billing standards, medical necessity and hospital acquired conditions/never events. The Utilization Management Nurse, Senior will report to the Senior Manager, Facility Compliance Review. In this role you will be reviewing medical documents and applying clinical criteria to establish the most appropriate level of care. This role will be focusing primarily on inpatient psych reviews for Residential Treatment and Detox. Also, you will be reviewing hospital itemized bills for a comprehensive line-by-line audit and manual claims processing on exceptions to ensure that appropriate billing practices are followed based on facility specific contract language. These exceptions may include medical necessity, DRG validation, stop loss, trauma, ER, burns, implants, NICU, transplants, hospital acquired conditions/never events and aberrant billing.

Your Knowledge and Experience

• Requires a bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
• Requires a current California RN License
• Requires at least 5 years of prior relevant experience
• Previous Inpatient Psych experience preferred
• Requires strong attention to detail to include ability to analyze claim data analytics
• Requires independent motivation, strong work ethic and strong computer navigations skills
• Psych claims review experience preferred