Job Opening: Contract Specialist
Description
Westaff is hiring a Contract Specialist for a Corporate office in Lafayette, La.
Pay: $23.00- $25.00/Hour
Schedule: Monday- Friday
8am- 5pm
Qualifications:
- Required experience with Salesforce and Conga
- In-house legal or contracting department experience preferred.
- Experience within and/or knowledge of the healthcare industry preferred.
Responsibilities:
- Prepare provider agreements and amendments, primarily focused on customized language/addenda.
- Review requested changes to provider agreements (standard and non-standard).
- Review of specialized and non-standard requests for provider agreements.
- Manage changes to provider agreements in coordination with providers and/or attorneys, including direct communication and negotiation with providers and/or attorneys.
- Coordinate provider pay issues with other departments.
- Assist in responding to document production requests.
- Assist Operations with provider contracting process
- Assist with provider terminations as needed and in accordance with agreement terms.
- Manage provider agreement templates and direct assistance with creation and revision of provider agreement templates for all clinical service lines.
- Assist in development and enhancement of contracting system features and functions.
- Salesforce research and provision of historical data on providers, provider agreement requests, etc. as needed by Operations, ERMD and any other department.
- Direct collaboration with Operations and Data Quality for assurance of accurate data within Salesforce platform.
- Assist with ERMD auditing, monitoring and correction of providers working without agreements and assurance that contracts are properly put in place.
- Process agreements and amendments as necessary for distribution to internal stakeholders.
- Assist with other team projects and requests.
- Attend internal and external meetings as necessary relative to drafting, tracking and reporting on status of client contracts.
- Cross-train where possible.