Lead Clinical Review Nurse

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Position Title:

Lead Clinical Review Nurse

Job Description:

Location:

This role enables associates to work virtually full-time, except for 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.

The Lead Clinical Review Nurse is responsible for serving as a team lead for nursing staff who collaborate with cross functional teams and healthcare providers to promote quality audits, and to promote education, training for the DRGV team. Effective use of resources for the most complex or elevated issues. Ensures clinically high quality, cost effective care through assessing coding of inpatient admissions, focused surgical and diagnostic procedures by utilizing the applicable coding guidelines and industry standards, accurately interpreting coding clinics, and other approved coding advice.

Works with medical directors in interpreting appropriateness of care and accurate claims payment. May also manage appeals.

How you'll make a difference:

* Conducts retrospective reviews, and appropriateness of coding to ensure compliance with applicable criteria and contracts.

* Ensures member access to quality healthcare in a cost effective setting according to contract.

* Consults with clinical reviewers and/or medical directors to ensure appropriate coding assignment.

* Collaborates with providers to verify correct DRG assignment aiding in identification of any coding errors.

* Facilitates transition of patient information for correct interpretation and regulatory requirements and standards.

* Serves as the team lead and responds to the most complex audit issues.

* Ensures consistency in audit application.

* May lead cross-functional teams, projects, initiatives, process improvement activities, and requires previous auditing experience.

* May serve as departmental liaison to other areas of the business unit or as representative on enterprise initiatives.

Minimum Requirements:

* Requires AS in nursing and minimum of 7 years of acute care clinical experience; or any combination of education and experience, which would provide an equivalent background. Prior managed care experience required.

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

Preferred skills, qualifications and experience:

* BS in nursing preferred.

* Knowledge of medical payment methodologies process and ability to interpret and apply provider contracts, strongly preferred.

* Claims Auditing experience is strongly preferred

* CCS, RHIT, RHIA coding certificate

Job Level:

Non-Management Exempt

Workshift:

1st Shift (United States of America)

Job Family:

MED  Licensed Nurse

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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…