• Job Description

  Req#: 5001016730706

  Why This Role is Important to Us

  The Onboarding Specialist is the primary contact for members as they transition to a CCA health plan. The Specialist contacts new members via telephonic outreach and identifies both the member's existing healthcare services that will continue and new service requests. The Specialist works to ensure that member needs are addressed through liaising with internal CCA providers and external healthcare providers. The Specialist also educates the member on health plan offerings and addresses members' questions or concerns.

  What You'll Be Doing

  • Serves as the primary member contact and advocate until their care team is established, both through direct member outreach and inbound call support
  • Leverages internal and external resources (such as claims, referrals, and pharmacy data) to identify accurate, successful contact information for unreachable or hard-to-reach members
  • Orients new members to the value of CCA as their health plan, providing education, answering members' questions, anticipating and meeting member needs and concerns
  • Documents members' current healthcare services and new service requests
  • Ensures members continue to receive current healthcare services as they transition to CCA through healthcare provider outreach and education
  • Schedules new members' initial nurse intake visits
  • Utilizes communication skills such as motivational interviewing to gain agreement from members to participate in the onboarding process, persistently forging trusting relationships and engaging individuals not readily interested in connecting with CCA
  • Utilizes established workflows and collaborates with internal and external stakeholders and healthcare providers
  • Provide clinical care to members via telehealth technologies (video, chat, etc.) for a clinically appropriate clinical care and care management services.

  What We're Looking For

  Required:

  Bachelor's Degree or relevant experience in call center and/or Medicare/Medicaid plan

  Required:

  • 5+ years' experience
  • 1+ years' experience working in outreach or in the community with individuals who have behavioral, medical, social, or interpersonal complexities impacting their lives
  • Demonstrated understanding of the community served
  • Experience working in a multi-cultural setting
  • Experience using motivational interviewing techniques in a professional setting
  • Familiarity with data entry and querying databases to identify key information about members

  Preferred:

  • Experience identifying unmet healthcare needs and escalating to the appropriate individual preferred
  • Experience with electronic medical record and care management systems strongly preferred

  Required:

  • Excellent communication skills, including the ability to convey information clearly telephonically and in a culturally sensitive manner
  • Strong interpersonal and customer relation skills, including active listening skills, dependability, and responsiveness
  • Compassionate, understanding, and patience
  • Motivates, empowers, inspires, and collaborates with members while effectively establishing boundaries by clarifying roles, expectations, and deliverables
  • Ability to develop and maintain positive working relationships with peers, supervisors, and other organizations
  • Ability to multitask and ensure all work is completed thoroughly and completely in a fast-paced environment with competing demands
  • Basic computer skills
  • Professional, comprehensive, clear documentation
  • Familiarity with Microsoft Office programs: Outlook, Calendar, Word
  • Willing to learn and utilize telehealth technologies (video, chat, etc.), when appropriate, for a variety of clinical care and care management services.

  Required:

  English

  Preferred:

  Bilingual

  Actual Work Location

  , Boston, Massachusetts 02108

  All Locations

  Boston, MA

  Exempt / Not Exempt

  Non-Exempt

• About the company

  Based in Massachusetts, Commonwealth Care Alliance (CCA) is a not-for-profit, community-based healthcare organization dedicated to improving care for individuals who are dually eligible for MassHealth (Medicaid) and Medicare with complex medical, behavioral health and social needs, including persons with disabilities. CCA offers two health plans: Senior Care Options (HMO SNP), for individuals ages 65 and over who have Medicare and MassHealth Standard or only MassHealth Standard; and One Care, a Massachusetts demonstration program for dual eligible individuals ages 21 to 64. These comprehensive health plans provide all the services covered under Medicare and MassHealth, and other benefits as determined necessary by an inter-professional care team in conjunction with CCA’s preferred provider network. For four consecutive years, CCA’s One Care plan received a top consumer rating for quality and access in the Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS) national survey of Medicare-Medicaid Plans (2016, 2017, 2018, and 2019), administered by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid (CMS).

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