UnitedHealth Group is among the most ambitious Fortune 25 companies you'll ever meet. Through our family of businesses, we're working to make the health care system perform better for more people, in more ways than ever.
Simply put, we think the entire system can be greater than it's ever been. And that drives us to work harder, aim higher, and expect more from one another.
Here, you'll be empowered to make an immediate impact for millions of others. And you'll achieve more than you ever expected. How does that fit with your plans?
Associate Director Provider Practice Recruitment and Onboarding-316738
UnitedHealth Group is an innovative leader in the health and well-being industry, serving more than 55 million Americans. Through our family of companies, we contribute outstanding clinical insight with consumer-friendly services and advanced technology to help people achieve optimal health.
Description OptumHealth is part of the family of companies that make UnitedHealth Group one of the leaders across most major segments of the US health care system.
If you want more meaning in your career - as a clinician or a business professional - think of OptumHealth as your calling.
By providing 60 million Americans with information, tools and solutions, we are helping to guide them through the health care system, financing their health care needs, and enabling them to achieve their personal health and well-being goals.
- Develops provider recruitment strategies including, but not limited to, provider value-proposition, strategic positioning and recruitment execution strategy
- Develops the private practice provider network yielding a geographically competitive, broad access, stable network that achieves financial objectives
- Evaluates and negotiates contracts in compliance with company contract templates, reimbursement structure standards, and other key process controls
- Establishes and maintains strong business relationships with providers, and ensures the network composition includes an appropriate hybrid distribution of independent and retail providers
- Maintains oversight for the management of new provider application processing including initial mailing, review, and loading into the system; ensuring high quality standards are maintained.
- Facilitates provider on-boarding experience in conjunction with Provider Operations and Relations teams.
- Provides leadership to and is accountable for the performance of professional staff
- Executes functional objectives specific to private practice network development
Directs others to resolve complex business issues that affect private practice network development function
At OptumHealth, you will perform within an innovative culture that's focused on transformational change in the health care system. You will leverage your skills across a diverse and multi-faceted business. And you will make contributions that will have an impact that's greater than you've ever imagined.
Qualifications
- Undergraduate degree or equivalent experience
- 3 to 5 years of experience working in a optical industry or managed healthcare environment
- Proven contract negotiation skills/experience with managed healthcare providers
- Ability to present data in a concise manner to multiple internal and external business partners�Proficient user of MS Excel and MS Access
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: equal opportunity employer M/F/D/V
UnitedHealth Group is a drug-free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment. In addition, employees in certain

Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: equal opportunity employer M/F/D/V. UnitedHealth Group is a drug-free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment. |