Lehigh Valley Health Network

Value Based Contracting Manager

Lehigh Valley Health Network$80K — $110K *
Healthcare
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree in Business
  • 5 years of experience in healthcare finance or managed care
  • Excellent organizational, analytical, and interpersonal skills
  • Strong communication skills with advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint
  • Ability to handle multiple projects and prioritize effectively
  • Proven ability to work independently and provide customer service across levels

Responsibilities

  • Partner with Population Health Leadership to manage payer contracts
  • Drive negotiations for shared risk, capitation, and bundled payments
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to align contracts with clinical and operational goals
  • Identify and implement opportunities for contract performance improvement
  • Maintain performance dashboards for value-based contracts
  • Develop reports and presentations on contract negotiations and outcomes

Benefits

  • Collaborative work environment across multiple departments
  • Engagement in innovative healthcare reimbursement models
  • Opportunities for continuous improvement and professional development
  • Onsite work location promoting team dynamics
  • Standard Monday-Friday schedule with daytime hours
Full Job Description
Summary
The Value Based Contracting Manager serves as a leader responsible for advancing enterprise-wide value-based payment strategy and population health contracting initiatives. This role leads the evaluation, development, and execution of innovative reimbursement models-including value-based, shared savings, and alternative payment arrangements-ensuring alignment with population health objectives, clinical integration strategies, and financial sustainability goals. This position plays a critical role in enterprise contract negotiations, performance and payer relationship management.

Job Duties
  • Partner with Population Health Leadership to structure, negotiate, and manage payer contracts across multiple lines of business.
  • Drive enterprise contract negotiations, including shared risk, capitation, bundled payments, and alternative payment models.
  • Collaborate cross-functionally with Population Health, Finance, Legal, and Quality to ensure alignment between contractual terms, clinical programs, quality metrics, and operational workflows.
  • Support continuous improvement by identifying opportunities to optimize contract performance, mitigate risk, and improve outcomes.
  • Maintain enterprise dashboard of Payer Contract value-based performance and financial packet.
  • Develop and prepare projects, reports, presentations detailing the anticipated and resulting outcomes from value-based contract negotiations.

Minimum Qualifications
  • Bachelor's Degree in Business.
  • 5 years years of experience in healthcare finance, managed care, or healthcare/finance consulting.
  • Must possess excellent organizational, analytical and interpersonal skills.
  • Ability to focus on details and coordinate multiple projects simultaneously and to consistently apply standards with flexibility for various department functions.
  • Ability to work independently with little to no supervision and the ability to take direction.
  • Must have ability to interact with people at all levels and provide excellent customer service.
  • Strong communication and advanced Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint skills.

Additional Qualifications
Physical Demands
Lift and carry 25 lbs. frequent sitting/standing, frequent keyboard use, *patient care providers may be required to perform activities specific to their role including kneeling, bending, squatting and performing CPR.

Job Description Disclaimer: This position description provides the major duties/responsibilities, requirements and working conditions for the position. It is intended to be an accurate reflection of the current position, however management reserves the right to revise or change as necessary to meet organizational needs. Other responsibilities may be assigned when circumstances require.

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Work Shift:
Day Shift

Address:
707 Hamilton St

Primary Location:
One City Center

Position Type:
Onsite

Union:
Not Applicable

Work Schedule:
Monday-Friday; 8:00a-4:30p

Department:

About Lehigh Valley Health Network

Lehigh Valley Health Network is a healthcare network based in the Allentown, Pennsylvania in the Lehigh Valley region of eastern Pennsylvania. The healthcare network serves eastern and northeastern Pennsylvania. Its flagship hospital is Lehigh Valley Hospital–Cedar Crest, located on Cedar Crest Boulevard in Allentown.
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