Job DescriptionYour Role The Special Investigations Unit (SIU) team s responsible for preventing, detecting, investigating, and resolving health care fraud, waste, and abuse. The Special Investigations Investigator, Consultant report to the SIU manager. In this role you will conduct investigations in accordance with company policies and procedures and in compliance with all applicable laws and regulations; for all lines of business. This role requires travel to provider locations to conduct onsite provider audits, as needed.
ResponsibilitiesYour Work In this role, you will:
- Serve as a senior subject matter expert handling the most complex and sensitive investigations
- Provide expert guidance, mentoring, and quality review for investigators, ensuring consistency, defensibility, and audit readiness
- Establish and maintain investigative standards, tools, templates, and training resources to improve team effectiveness
- Partner strategically with law enforcement, regulators, and internal leadership to support high risk or high impact cases
- Apply expert discretion to ensure investigations align with legal, regulatory, and policy requirements
- Conduct medical record audits
- Travel to provider locations to conduct onsite audits
- Initiate, analyze, develop and successfully complete complex fraud investigations and communicate investigation and audit findings with limited to no supervisory assistance
- Be responsible for coordinating and overseeing efforts to recover erroneous payments made because of a claims processing error, misrepresentative billing, fraud, abuse, or any other criminal act with no assistance
- Document all stages of each investigation using company and department procedures, templates and form. Prepare detailed post audit investigative reports. Limited to no supervisory assistance needed
QualificationsYour Knowledge and Experience - Bachelor's degree or High School Diploma/GED and 4 years of additional relevant experience in lieu of a degree
- Requires 7 years of prior relevant experience related to fraud, waste, and abuse
- Requires excellent presentation/interpersonal/negotiation skills
- Requires proficiency in MS Office and data mining tools
- Requires extensive experience in health care, compliance, privacy, legal services, and or investigations
- Requires deep knowledge of reimbursement/program(s)
- Requires extensive experience of claim review and coding knowledge
- Requires extensive knowledge in auditing medical documentation to substantiate services billed on a claim(s)
- Requires excellent analytical and thinking skills
- Requires excellent written and verbal communication and negotiation without guidance
Hybrid This role requires employees to be in-office based on our hybrid workplace model, balancing purposeful in-person collaboration with flexibility. For most teams, this means coming into the office two days each week.
Employees living more than 50 miles from an office location will work with their manager to determine in-office time based on business need.
Physical Requirements:Office Environment - roles involving part to full time schedule in Office Environment. Based in our physical offices and work from home office/deskwork - Activity level: Sedentary, frequency most of work day.
Please click here for further physical requirement detail.
