Scope of Responsibility
- Direct supervision of the GBC Credentialing team and day-to-day task oversight of the offshore market team
- Training and onboarding for all team members: FTE, offshore, and contractor
- Quality oversight, audit follow-through, and corrective action
- Escalation routing, tracking, and closure for operational issues and leadership requests
- Ownership of training materials, SOPs, job aids, checklists, and the knowledge repository
- Hands-on ownership of the Priority Provider Readiness Program for leadership-approved priority providers
Core Functions Owned
- Oversight of provider onboards and ancillary PIF management, with direct hands-on involvement limited to priority providers
- Payer packet auditing and PSV-ready packet standards
- Non-delegated submissions and follow-up
- Expirable management
- Oversight of ECHO builds, payer tracker maintenance, and Athena management standards
- Oversight and escalation support for claim and issue resolution tied to credentialing and market work
Essential Duties and Responsibilities 1. Leadership and Team Management
- Directly supervise all GBC Credentialing team members and set performance expectations aligned to organizational goals
- Conduct regular coaching sessions, one-on-ones, and performance evaluations
- Develop employee growth and succession planning strategies
- Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, customer service, and continuous improvement
- Monitor productivity and quality performance metrics and manage workload distribution
2. Subject Matter Expertise
- Serve as the go-to SME for all credentialing and market functions and explain the “why” behind each step, not just the clicks
- Understand and teach how market work depends on and feeds the PSV, Delegation, and Government teams
- Teach the differences between delegated, non-delegated, and government enrollment pathways, including where handoffs occur
- Complete the groundwork before drawing conclusions: review source materials, trace root cause, validate details, and assess full impact
- Validate that a process is current and correct before teaching it; confirm through the appropriate source rather than memory or habit
3. Training and Staff Development
- Serve as the departmental owner of credentialing training and education
- Run structured onboarding for every new FTE, offshore, and contractor team member
- Create and maintain SOPs, job aids, audit checklists, competency assessments, and a centralized knowledge repository
- Host recurring re-trainings and “back to basics” refreshers targeted at identified gaps
- Coordinate cross-training initiatives to improve operational flexibility and coverage
- Hold weekly check-ins with trainees and offshore team members and track their progress
- Partner with the Credentialing Auditor and managers to identify individual and team weak spots using audit findings and quality trends, then report findings and recommended training actions to leadership
- Measure training effectiveness through accuracy, consistency, repeat-error reduction, and applied behavior; fold results into specialist reports shared with managers
- Ensure training aligns with organizational policies, payer requirements, and regulatory standards
4. Quality Assurance, Accountability, and Process Improvement
- Partner with the Credentialing Auditor to review audit findings and quality trends; analyze recurring errors and identify root causes
- Develop, implement, and complete corrective action plans
- Audit team output for accuracy and provide direct, specific, real-time corrective feedback
- Partner with the manager to determine appropriate accountability, coaching, or follow-up
- Own process integrity and standardize “what good looks like” at each handoff point
- Implement process improvements that increase accuracy and efficiency, and maintain readiness for internal and external audits
5. Provider Readiness Program Management
- Serve as the hands-on owner for leadership-approved priority providers
- Develop and personally maintain readiness plans, milestone tracking, risks, and escalations for assigned priority providers
Coordinate activities across:
- Credentialing and Provider Enrollment
- Contracting and Network Development
- Revenue Cycle
- Practice Operations and Provider Onboarding
- Escalate barriers that threaten provider readiness timelines
- Provide leadership visibility through readiness reporting and dashboards
- Drive priority providers toward credentialed, enrolled, and billing-ready status by their first day whenever payer and operational requirements allow
6. Sense of Urgency and Escalation Ownership
- Treat onboarding timelines, PEA/PSA execution windows, roster deadlines, and leadership requests as time-sensitive priorities
- Acknowledge leadership requests promptly, clarify priority, and confirm next steps
- Prioritize supervisory follow-up based on risk, deadline sensitivity, and downstream impact to providers, markets, and partner teams; directly work priority provider barriers when assigned
- Monitor aging work, missing packet items, and open follow-ups, and reinforce urgency across the team
- Reinforce escalation pathways, route issues to the correct owner, and follow up to confirm resolution
- Investigate issues fully before presenting to leadership: gather context, validate facts, identify root cause and impact, and bring a recommended next step
- Identify trends and barriers early and partner with the appropriate owner to mitigate risk before escalation
- Communicate professionally with market leaders, peers, and cross-functional partners, and provide proactive updates on urgent items until completion
7. Operational Oversight and Reporting
- Monitor credentialing pipeline performance and readiness metrics
- Develop operational reports and dashboards, and ensure adherence to established SLAs
- Provide regular reporting to managers and leadership on open issues, training progress, team knowledge levels, recurring trends, quality concerns, and recommended next steps
- Provide supervisory, training, and workflow insights that support a repeatable, scalable onboarding path for a growing offshore, contractor, and FTE workforce
- Share quality trends and training outcomes to help define KPIs and quality standards as the team expands
- Maintain a forward-looking training roadmap and support strategic initiatives and organizational growth
8. Compliance and Regulatory Oversight
- Ensure compliance with NCQA standards, delegated credentialing agreements, CMS regulations, organizational policies, and payer requirements
- Maintain current knowledge of industry regulations and best practices
- Support accreditation reviews and audit activities
|