Manager, Utilization Management Nurse Management
- Healthcare
- Contract
- utilization management
- nurse management
- healthcare compliance
The Manager, Utilization Management Nurse Management leads a team within the Facility Compliance Review unit to ensure contract compliance, billing standards, and medical necessity for hospital claims. This role involves overseeing workflows, policies, and performance to enhance operational efficiency and quality of patient-centered care. The manager collaborates with senior management to set objectives, monitor results, and implement strategies for continuous improvement in healthcare compliance and case management.
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 Manager, Utilization Management Nurse Management will report to the Senior Manager, Facility Compliance Review. In this role you will be responsible for several direct reports, be a resource for problem solving issues, training and updating documentation as needed. You will work to enhance the department’s operations with efficiency and attention to detail/quality.
Your Work
In this role, you will:
- Establish operational objectives for department or functional area and participate with other managers to establish group objectives
- Be responsible for team, department or functional area results in terms of planning, cost in collaboration with Sr Manager
- Develop and maintain FCR workflows, protocols, and policies to ensure efficient and effective care coordination
- Ensure workflow procedures and guidelines are clearly documented and communicated
- Interpret or initiate changes in guidelines/policies/procedures
- Monitor and evaluate the performance of the FCR team and implement improvement strategies as needed
- Keeps team focused on specific and measurable performance goals and monitors performance against clear standards.
- Works collaboratively among business units to align and partner with others to achieve performance goals and/or outcomes
- Provide Ensure the delivery of high-quality, patient-centered care through the management of chronic disease, complex case management, and discharge planning
- Other duties as assigned by Sr Manager
Your Knowledge and Experience
- Requires a current CA RN License
- Bachelors of Science in Nursing or advanced degree preferred.
- Requires at least 7 years of prior relevant experience including 3 years of management experience gained as a team leader, supervisor, or project/program manager
- A minimum of 3+ year experience in inpatient or managed care environment preferred
- Excellent communication, interpersonal, and negotiation skills
- Has functional expertise within the area of responsibility.
- Knowledge of NCQA requirements preferred
- Ability to analyze data and create reports to guide decision-making and process improvements
At Blue Shield of California, we're focused on fundamentally improving the ways in which members can access care and use their coverage. We're investing in talented employees and new technologies to create an unrivaled member experience that elevates expectations and achieves our mission of making health care more accessible and affordable than ever. Today we are the third-largest health plan in the state and we're dedicated to transforming the healthcare industry. Headquartered in San Francisco, with 18 additional offices across California, we're proud to service over 4 million members and employ more than 6,000 people. We are an independent member of the Blue Shield Association. We comply with applicable Federal civil rights laws and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, disability or sex. Blue Shield of California cumple con las leyes federales de derechos civiles aplicables y no discrimina por motivos de raza, color, nacionalidad, edad, discapacidad o sexo. Blue Shield of California 遵守適用的聯邦民權法律規定,不因種族、膚色、民族血統、年齡、殘障或性別而歧視任何人

