Credentialing Specialist

Radia is currently seeking a Credentialing Specialist to join our credentialing team! The ideal candidate will be service oriented, have exceptional organizational skills and attention to detail.

Compensation

Hourly salary range $22.37/hour to $32.34/hour. Salary is based on multiple factors, including but not limited to job-related experience, knowledge, skills, abilities, and employment status.

Benefits

• 2 Medical plans to choose from, dental, vision, life, and LTD
• HSA and FSA available
• A 401(k)-employer match, with a profit-sharing component
• Up to 21 paid days off per year
• 8 paid holidays annually
• Life and disability insurance
• Free onsite parking
• Learning opportunities through professional development programs
• Educational Assistance
• Service bonus
• Discretionary annual performance-based bonus
  
  

Shift: Monday - Friday (9am - 5pm PST)

Location: Remote

• There is required training for 1 week at the Lynnwood, WA office from 8 am – 4:30 pm.
  
  

The primary purpose of the credentialing specialist is to provide consistent, accurate, and timely credentialing support for the professional services corporation, which enhances the company’s ability to provide professional services to patients at multiple hospital and clinic locations.

Responsibilities

• Credentialing: Completes accurate and detailed professional applications for hospitals and/or payers. Follows for review and signature in a timely manner, with a goal of having applications completed within 120 day maximum timeline. Ensures that approval for hospital and payer privileges and effective dates are documented in detail.
• Interdepartmental Collaboration: Upholds a high level of understanding of credentialing and privileging and how it relates to other facets within (such as teleRadia, physician scheduling, quality and risk management) and outside of the organization. Recognizes opportunities for improving processes and can communicate effectively with physicians and hospital partners.
• License Renewals: Ensures that physician licenses are renewed prior to expiration 100% of the time. Documents payments and follows any outstanding items. Communicates completion to key customers.
• Primary Source Verification: Completes primary source verification as requested by management for new and existing physicians to ensure due diligence.
• Proctoring: Coordinates and documents proctoring process per hospital requests and internal needs based on current approved policy and guidelines.
• Continuing Medical Education: Works with team members to maintain current CME documentation for all medical professionals. Ensures that current information is provided to the clinical manager on a quarterly basis for MQSA accreditation and that totals yearly satisfy WA licensure requirements. Alerts physicians falling behind requirements.
• Records Management: Maintains assigned physician files, updating each item/action as processed. Utilizes database status/alert and other report functions, software tools and links to scanned documentation. Ensures that information is current and accurate. Archives documents based on retention schedules.
• Credentialing Standards: credentialing standards as prescribed and actively participates in credentialing standards development contributing to standards and consistency in database entry to ensure accurate and consistent processes. Provides updates on outstanding items.
• Medical Staff Application Fees & Dues: Processes check requests for Medical Staff App fees and dues based on invoices provided by various hospitals. Ensure that invoices are accurate prior to submitting payment.
• Back-up Coverage: Provides hospital and payer credentialing back-up coverage for other members of the Credentialing group.
• Record Maintenance: Maintains files of scanned and/or hard copy documents for easy retrieval, ensuring that filing and other documentation are current. Archives documents based on retention schedules.
  
  

Education And Experience

• High school diploma, GED or suitable equivalent
• Credentialing certification preferred; ongoing education encouraged
• 2+ years of experience in hospital medical staff setting in professional and/or payer credentialing and enrollment
• Experience supporting teleradiology practices (e.g., Radiology Partners, Envision) preferred.
• Knowledge of medical credentialing and privileging procedures and standards and Out of State Medical Board Licensure application process.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
  
  

About Radia

Radia is one of the largest and most progressive radiology groups in the nation. Our team of more than 200 board-certified radiologists, with specialty training in everything from Mammography to Neuroradiology and Musculoskeletal to Interventional, provide more than 50 hospital and specialty clinic partners with on-site radiology coverage and interpretations. #INDCORP