Medical Staffing Credentialing Specialist
Primary location: Morristown,NJ
Schedule: Full-time
Type: Phy.Relations and PracticeMgmt
Shift: Mon-Fri
Job ID: 4355
Atlantic Health System is seeking a full-time Credentialing Specialist for the Medical Services Admin at Morristown Medical Center to work 8AM – 4PM.
Essential Function/Responsibilities:
- Enforce regulatory compliance and quality assurance
- Prepare and maintain reports of credentialing activities such as accreditation, membership or facility privileges
- Ensure that all information meets legal, federal and state guidelines when processing applications
- Responsible for carrying out various credentialing processes in relation to physicians and allied health practitioners
- Process applications for reappointments (approximately 125-200 quarterly)
- Collect and process significant amounts of verification and accreditation information
- Maintain and update accurate information in the Echo database (includes education, training, experience, licensure)
- Prepare material for Credentials Committee meeting, MEC as well as Board of Trustees meeting
- Sets up and maintains provider information in Echo
- Maintains confidentiality of provider information
- Ensure compliance with the Bylaws at each location as it pertains to the credentialing process
- Schedule, and on occasion attend and take minutes for site based medical staff department meetings
- Process and collect dues for the site based medical staff
- Compiles and maintains current and accurate data for all providers
- Sets up and maintains provider information in online credentialing database
- Tracks license and certification expirations for all providers
- Maintains confidentiality of provider information
Minimum Education:
- High School Diploma Required
- 1-3 years credentialing experience, preferably in a managed care setting, preferred
- Associate degree or Certified Provider Credentialing Specialist (CPCS) certified preferred
Minimum Experience:
- Knowledge of the credentialing process required
- Ability to organize and prioritize work and manage multiple priorities
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to research and analyze data
- Ability to work independently
- Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships
- Excellent computer skills
About US
ABOUT US
At Atlantic Health System, our promise to our communities is; Anyone who enters one of our facilities, will receive the highest quality care delivered at the right time, at the right place, and at the right cost. This commitment is also echoed in the respect, development and opportunities we give to our more than 20,000 team members. Headquartered in Morristown, New Jersey, we are one of the leading non-profit health care systems in the nation. Our facilities and sites of care include:
- Morristown Medical Center, Morristown, NJ
- Overlook Medical Center, Summit, NJ
- Newton Medical Center, Newton, NJ
- Chilton Medical Center, Pompton Plains, NJ
- Hackettstown Medical Center, Hackettstown, NJ
- Goryeb Children’s Hospital, Morristown, NJ
- CentraState Healthcare System, Freehold, NJ
- Atlantic Home Care and Hospice
- Atlantic Mobile Health
- Atlantic Rehabilitation
We also have more than 900 community-based healthcare providers affiliated through Atlantic Medical Group. Atlantic Accountable Care Organization is one of the largest ACOs in the nation, and we are a member of AllSpire Health Partners.
We have received awards and recognition for the services we have provided to our patients, team members and communities. Below are just a few of our accolades:
- 100 Best Companies to Work For ® and FORTUNE® magazine for 15 years
- Best Places to Work in Healthcare – Modern Healthcare
- 150 Top Places to work in Healthcare – Becker’s Healthcare
- 100 Accountable Care Organizations to Know – Becker’s Hospital Review
- Best Employers for Workers over 50 – AARP
- Gold-Level “Well Workplace”: Wellness Council of America (WELCOA)
- One of the 100 Best Workplaces for “Millennials” Great Place to Work® and FORTUNE® magazine
- One of the 20 Best Workplaces in Health Care: Great Place to Work® and FORTUNE® magazine
- Official Health Care Partner of the New York Jets
- NJ Sustainable Business
Morristown Medical Center is a nationally-recognized leader in cardiology and heart surgery, orthopedics, gynecology, geriatrics, gastroenterology and GI surgery, pulmonology and lung surgery, and urology.
We are the only hospital in New Jersey named one of America’s ’50 Best Hospitals’ for six consecutive years by Healthgrades and one of the World’s Best Hospitals by Newsweek. We were included on Becker’s Healthcare 2020 list of “100 Great Hospitals in America”. In addition, Leapfrog recognized us with an “A” hospital safety grade – its highest – twelve consecutive times, and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services awarded us again with its highest five-start rating in 2020.
Morristown Medical Center is a Magnet Hospital for Excellence in Nursing Service, the highest level of recognition achievable from the American Nurses Credentialing Center for facilities that provide acute care services. Our nonprofit hospital was also designated a Level I Regional Trauma Center by the American College of Surgeons and a Level II by the State of NJ.
EEO STATEMENT
Atlantic Health System, Inc. is an equal employment opportunity employer and federal contractor or subcontractor and therefore abides by applicable laws to protect applicants and employees from discrimination in hiring, promotion, discharge, pay, fringe benefits, job training, classification, referral, and other aspects of employment, on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity and sexual orientation), national origin, citizenship status, disability, age, genetics, or veteran status.
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