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City/State: Saint Louis, Missouri

Categories: Support Services

Shift: Days

Job Status: Full-Time

Req ID: 90897

Pay Range: $52,083.20 – $84,822.40 / year (Salary or hourly rate is based on job qualifications and relevant work experience)

Additional Information About the Role

The Senior Performance Measure Consultant will partner with their Manager, in Center for Clinical Excellence to oversee inpatient and outpatient regulatory quality metrics for East Region hospitals, including but not limited to electronic clinical quality measure (eCQM) portfolio implementation, performance analysis, workflow optimization, validation, and improvement. This role requires excellent communication skills and the ability to collaborate with multidisciplinary groups both internal and external to the organization. Familiarity with eCQMs, Epic data capture, and clinical informatics experience is highly preferred. In addition, project management skills will be utilized. This is a remote position, must be located in MO or IL.

Overview

**BJC HealthCare** is one of the largest nonprofit health care organizations in the United States, delivering services to residents primarily in the greater St. Louis, southern Illinois and southeast Missouri regions. With net revenues of $6.3 billion and more than 30,000 employees, BJC serves patients and their families in urban, suburban and rural communities through its 14 hospitals and multiple community health locations. Services include inpatient and outpatient care, primary care, community health and wellness, workplace health, home health, community mental health, rehabilitation, long-term care and hospice.

BJC is the largest provider of charity care, unreimbursed care and community benefits in the state of Missouri. BJC and its hospitals and health service organizations provide $785.9 million annually in community benefit. That includes $410.6 million in charity care and other financial assistance to patients to ensure medical care regardless of their ability to pay. In addition, BJC provides additional community benefits through commitments to research, emergency preparedness, regional health care safety net services, health literacy, community outreach and community health programs and regional economic development.

BJC’s patients have access to the latest advances in medical science and technology through a formal affiliation between Barnes-Jewish Hospital and St. Louis Children’s Hospital with the renowned Washington University School of Medicine, which consistently ranks among the top medical schools in the country.

Preferred Qualifications

Role Purpose

The Senior Performance Measures Consultant provides performance measurement and analytical support by utilizing measurement and performance improvement skills to support clinical decision making. This position assists with coordinating the day-to-day operations of the quality team and produces actionable reports to identify opportunities for targeted, scalable interventions. This position also serves as the expert in Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set (HEDIS) and regulatory quality measures. The Senior Performance Measures Consultant evaluates, recommends, and monitors the implementation of best practice processes that focus on keeping our patients healthy, improve patient outcomes, and maintain a high quality of care. Additionally, this position provides subject matter expertise, training and on-boarding support, and issue escalation support for team members.

Responsibilities

+ Collects and analyzes provider quality performance data to identify trends and patterns in gaps of care; identifies and tracks the body of work that needs to be performed weekly to support quality reporting.

+ Assists leaders and teams in establishing performance standards and metrics; identifies goals while ensuring that partnerships exist with other areas of the business; develops, implements, or refines workflows or data collection and management methods to ensure accurate measurement and tracking of process and improvement results.

+ Supports effective medical record capture for HEDIS and quality measure medical record review and abstraction of supplemental data.

+ Maintains strong working knowledge of regulatory requirements that impact the organization (e.g., MACRA, MIPS, eCQM, etc.)

+ Assists co-workers and management by providing guidance to the quality team; provides subject matter expertise for peers, assists with training of performance and customer service standards, and assists with process or technology issue escalation.

Minimum Requirements

Education

+ Bachelor's Degree - Related field of study

Experience

+ 5-10 years

Supervisor Experience

+ No Experience

Preferred Requirements

Education

+ Master's Degree

Experience

+ 10+ years

Benefits and Legal Statement

BJC Total Rewards

At BJC we’re committed to providing you and your family with benefits and resources to help you manage your physical, emotional, social and financial well-being.

+ Comprehensive medical, dental, vison, life insurance, and legal services available first day of the month after hire date

+ Disability insurance* paid for by BJC

+ Pension Plan*/403(b) Plan funded by BJC

+ 401(k) plan with BJC match

+ Tuition Assistance available on first day

+ BJC Institute for Learning and Development

+ Health Care and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts

+ Paid Time Off benefit combines vacation, sick days, holidays and personal time

+ Adoption assistance

To learn more, go to www.bjctotalrewards.com/Benefits (https://www.bjctotalrewards.org/Benefits)

*Not all benefits apply to all jobs

The above information on this description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees in this position. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job. Equal Opportunity Employer