Blue Shield Of California

Special Investigations Investigator, Consultant

Blue Shield Of California$90K — $110K *
Healthcare
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in lieu of degree
  • 7+ years of experience in health care fraud, waste, and abuse
  • Excellent presentation, interpersonal, and negotiation skills
  • Proficiency in MS Office and data mining tools
  • Extensive knowledge in auditing medical documentation
  • Strong analytical, written, and verbal communication skills

Responsibilities

  • Serve as a senior subject matter expert for complex investigations
  • Provide guidance and mentorship to junior investigators
  • Establish investigative standards and training resources
  • Collaborate with law enforcement and regulators on high-impact cases
  • Conduct medical record audits and onsite provider audits
  • Initiate and complete detailed fraud investigations independently
  • Prepare comprehensive post-audit investigative reports

Benefits

  • Hybrid workplace model with 2 days in-office per week
  • Flexible working arrangements based on employee needs
  • Commitment to reasonable accommodations for medical conditions
  • Encouragement of collaboration and connection among teams
  • Supportive work environment aiming for employee well-being
Full Job Description
Job Description

Your 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.

Responsibilities

Your 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


Qualifications

Your 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.

Our Workplace Model

We believe in fostering a workplace environment that balances purposeful in-person collaboration with flexibility - providing clear expectations while respecting the diverse needs of our workforce. Our workplace model is designed around intentional in-person interaction, collaboration, connection, creativity and flexibility:
  • For most teams, this means coming into the office two days per week.
  • Employees living more than 50 miles from an office location, out of state employees, and employees in certain member-facing roles should work with their manager to determine in-office time based on business need.
  • For employees with medical conditions that may impact their ability to work in-office, we are committed to engaging in an interactive process and providing reasonable accommodations to ensure their work environment is conducive to their success and well-being.

The Company reserves the right to require more presence in the office based on business needs, and requirements are subject to change with periodic reviews.

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.

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About Blue Shield Of California

Blue Shield of California is a not-for-profit health plan provider that has been providing Californians with access to high-quality healthcare for over 80 years. The company offers a range of health insurance products and services to individuals, families, and employers. Blue Shield of California is committed to improving the health and wellbeing of its members and the communities it serves. The company is also committed to sustainability and has implemented a number of initiatives to reduce its environmental impact.
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Size
7,000 employees
Industry
Founded
1981

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