UCLA Health

Provider Relations Intake Specialist

UCLA Health$66K — $104K *
Healthcare
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • High school diploma
  • 2+ years in healthcare managed care operations, IPA, or MSO provider relations
  • 2+ years of knowledge in credentialing documents and contracting terminology
  • 2+ years understanding of Provider Lifecycle Management (PLM) handoffs
  • 2+ years experience with provider rosters and health plan submissions
  • Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, Outlook, Teams)
  • Strong understanding of health plans and provider relationships
  • Detail-oriented with strong documentation skills
  • Ability to handle high-volume intake in an enterprise environment
  • Strong communication skills with various stakeholders
  • Comfortable in remote/hybrid work settings.

Responsibilities

  • Manage and track provider-related requests, including new additions and changes
  • Review and validate provider rosters, reconciling discrepancies across systems
  • Support health plan roster submissions and maintain provider directory accuracy
  • Collaborate with various departments to coordinate provider changes
  • Monitor requests to completion, follow up on delays, and escalate issues when needed
  • Maintain audit-ready documentation to support compliance and regulatory initiatives.

Benefits

  • Flexible hybrid work schedule
  • Opportunity to work within a collaborative team environment
  • Engagement in compliance and process improvement initiatives
  • Potential for career advancement within managed care operations.
Full Job Description
General Information

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Work Location: Los Angeles, CA, USA

Onsite or Remote

Flexible Hybrid

Work Schedule

Monday - Friday, 8:00am - 5:00pm PST

Posted Date

09/15/2026

Salary Range: $31.99 - 50.24 Hourly

Employment Type

2 - Staff: Career

Duration

Indefinite

Job #

32837

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

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The Provider Relations Intake Specialist serves as the centralized point of contact for provider network changes within Managed Care Operations. This role coordinates and tracks provider additions, changes, and terminations while supporting accurate provider data, health plan submissions, and timely processing across the provider lifecycle.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Manage and track provider-related requests, including new provider additions, demographic and practice changes, and terminations.
  • Review and validate provider rosters and reconcile discrepancies across medical group systems, health plans, credentialing, contracting, and configuration records.
  • Support health plan roster submissions, provider directory accuracy, health plan activation, and management of health plan IDs.
  • Collaborate with Provider Relations, Contracting, Credentialing, Configuration, Claims, Billing, Finance, Member Services, Quality, and Compliance to coordinate provider changes.
  • Monitor requests through completion, proactively follow up on delays, and escalate stalled requests as needed.
  • Maintain accurate, audit-ready documentation and support compliance, regulatory, and process improvement initiatives.


Salary Range: $31.99 - $50.24/hourly

Job Qualifications

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All items listed below are required:

  • High school diploma
  • Two years or more of Healthcare managed care operations, IPA, or MSO provider relations experience
  • Two years or more of working knowledge of required credentialing documents, contracting terminology, or network operations
  • Two years or more of understanding of the handoffs between Provider Relations, Contracting, Credentialing, and Configuration, i.e., Provider Lifecycle Management (PLM)
  • Two years or more of experience with provider rosters, credentialing data, and health plan submissions
  • Two years or more of proficiency with Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Outlook Teams)
  • Strong understanding of contracted health plans and provider relationships
  • Skilled in documenting with high attention to detail and data accuracy
  • Ability to manage high-volume intake in an enterprise environment
  • Strong communication skills with providers, practice staff, internal, and external stakeholders
  • Comfort working in remote or hybrid environments using collaboration tools. Ability to work departmental hours of Monday - Friday 8am - 5pm


All items listed below are preferred:

  • Associate or bachelor's degree preferred; and/or equivalent combination of education and experience.
  • Proficiency of PLM or CRM software
  • Understanding of credentialing documentation requirements and roster standards
  • Familiarity with provider contract terminology
  • Problem-solving mindset with ability to identify root causes of data discrepancies
  • Ability to work independently with minimal supervision
  • Ability to research provider issues using multiple data sources
  • Understanding of root cause analysis to prevent repeat issues


As a condition of employment, the final candidate who accepts an offer of employment will be required to disclose if they have been subject to any final administrative or judicial decisions within the last seven years determining that they committed any misconduct; or have filed an appeal of a finding of substantiated misconduct with a previous employer.

Current/former UC employees are subject to a personnel file review.

About UCLA Health

UCLA Health is a world-renowned academic medical center located in Los Angeles, California. It comprises four hospitals, including Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, and more than 200 primary and specialty care clinics. UCLA Health is affiliated with the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and is consistently ranked among the top hospitals in the United States. The health system employs over 20,000 people and serves as a major center for patient care, medical education, and research.
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