Benefit Operations Specialist

Judi Health

$95K — $100K *
Healthcare
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree preferred
  • Over 3 years of experience in TPA or health plan settings focusing on Medical Benefit configuration and claims monitoring
  • Familiarity with Cigna or Aetna systems preferred
  • Experience with Pharmacy, Dental, or Vision services is advantageous
  • Background in self-funded plans, Medicare/Government programs, and ERISA is desirable
  • Strong attention to detail with adaptability to shifting priorities in fast-paced environments
  • Exceptional written and verbal communication skills

Responsibilities

  • Manage benefit configuration including new plan setups, claims testing, and audits to ensure accuracy
  • Foster collaboration with product and development teams to meet client customization requests
  • Communicate complex benefit configurations and testing processes clearly to clients
  • Recommend process improvements to enhance efficiency and quality of benefit designs
  • Work across teams to develop new benefits that respond to market demands
  • Create and validate testing scenarios for claims accuracy against client specifications
  • Develop training materials and standard procedures for internal team education

Benefits

  • Flexible 3-day hybrid work schedule
  • Opportunities for training and professional development
  • Involvement in innovative healthcare solutions
  • Collaborative environment with a focus on operational best practices
  • Exposure to diverse benefit programs including government programs
Full Job Description
Location: 3-daysHybrid (Local to NYC, Denver, or Charlotte)

Position Summary:

Join our first-of-its-kind Integrated Benefits team as a Benefit Operations Specialist, where you will play a pivotal role in delivering comprehensive medical and pharmacy benefit programs for Judi Health clients. You will lead benefit configuration, claims testing, and quality assurance processes, ensuring accuracy and efficiency across all implementations. This position offers the opportunity to influence operational best practices and contribute to a team that is redefining how integrated benefits are delivered in the healthcare space.

Position Responsibilities:
  • Responsible for all aspects of benefit configuration, including new plan setup, plan change setup, claims testing, and regular audits
  • Drives cross-functional collaboration with the product/dev team as well as additional stakeholder teams to ensure client customized requests are configurable for both new plan setups and plan changes
  • Clearly communicate benefit configuration setup and testing process or specific test claims to clients in a concise way that can be understood by users who are not experts in benefit areas
  • Make recommendations to streamline the work processes and systems that impact plan/benefit design to create efficiency and quality outcomes
  • Works cross-functionally to create new benefit options aligning with market needs, including expansion in government programs
  • Develop standards and custom batch testing scenarios and inputs, reviewing test claims output to validate claim accuracy against the clients' benefit design
  • Develops standard policy and procedures, training materials and provide education for training and presentation to cross-functional teams
  • Maintain acceptable and appropriate quality levels and production SLA response time
  • Participate in client meetings to assess new client benefit information or change requests to ensure design of Judi logic ties to the benefit configuration intended to meet client needs
  • Partner with leadership to develop benefit plan designs and ensure that the plan designs meet client requests, Health Plan strategic/business parameters, and all regulatory and other oversight agencies' requirements
  • Partner with Client Services team as clients go live and troubleshoot benefit-related discrepancies, errors, and problems
  • Support general business or team needs, as assigned

Qualifications:
  • Bachelor's degree preferred
  • 3+ years of TPA / health plan experience in Medical Benefit configuration, benefit testing, claims monitoring, SPD creation, Medical Coding or other applicable department needs
  • Experience with Cigna or Aetna preferred
  • Pharmacy, Dental, or Vision experience a plus
  • Self-funded plans, Medicare/Government programs and ERISA experience preferred
  • Tremendous attention to detail, ability to shift priorities easily and ability to work in high paced, deadline drive environment.
  • Exceptional written and verbal communication skills
  • Experience working with product/dev teams and familiarity with Agile, preferred
  • Preferred: experience working with structured or unstructured data in Excel, SQL, and other data visualization tools


New York, NY Salary Range

$95,000-$100,000 USD

Denver, CO Salary Range

$85,000-$90,000 USD

Charlotte, NC Salary Range

$80,000-$85,000 USD

All employees are responsible for adherence to the Judi Health Code of Conduct including the reporting of non-compliance. This position description is designed to be flexible, allowing management the opportunity to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities as needed to best meet organizational goals.

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