Job Summary

The Population Health Specialist is responsible for outreach to patients with gaps in chronic disease management and preventive care. If you like owning your own schedule, like your work to vary from week to week, and a self starter that can run with changes easily, this is the position for you. You must able to meet patients where they are: clinics, home, work, or the parking lot of a restaurant.

Will be required to travel across various counties to administer this eye exam: St. Clair Shores, Redford, Livionia, Westland, and Outfield counties. Mileage reimbursed for all travel. May be traveling up to 3 days per week.

Essential Functions

• Utilizes the Medical Home model to provide targeted outreach to identified patients. Includes current and new patients.

• Utilizes EMR Systems, registries, health maintenance data, opportunity reports, payer portals and other data as available to validate gaps and conduct outreach activities as assigned.

• Maintains tracking of outreach and gap closure.

• Using EMR tools, initiates outreach via EMR portal messages, phone calls, and/or via letters.

• Updates EMR Systems and payer portals as appropriate.

• Supports supplemental data submission process for plans without electronic supplemental feeds.

• Collaborates with Practice Transformation Team on the identification of quality care improvements.

• Shares findings of identified concerns/issues/quality care improvements related to gap closure, ordering process and documentation of care with quality team so that they may be addressed and/or implemented efficiently and effectively.

• Prepares reports as needed.

• Collaborates with practice staff to provide additional information and coordination of practice level phone calls.

• Performs special focused projects/audits as assigned.

• Complete all scheduled eye exams at ambulatory clinics, updating portal information, and ensure practices receive results for all patients.

• Traveling to ambulatory sites.

• Investigation of community resources/assistance needed for patient population; ensure an agency guest and/or information is available monthly to support the development of the material provided to the clinics.

• Outreach to outside clinics and health systems for results and quality data needed for improvement of practice scores.

• Perform quarterly quality measure audits to ensure practices compliance with documentation requirements.

Qualifications

• Required High School Diploma or equivalent

• Preferred Completion of an accredited Medical Assistant program or EMT, ER Tech, or equivalent of education and relevant experience.

• 2 years of relevant experience as a medical assistant in a physician clinical practice

• Experience in data entry. Required

• Ambulatory experience preferred

• CRT-Medical Assistant, Certified (CCMA) - preferred

Physical Demands

• Pallet to Waist (6" from floor) > 5 lbs: Seldom up to 25 lbs

• Waist to Waist > 5 lbs: Seldom up to 25 lbs

• Waist to Chest (below shoulder) > 5 lbs: Seldom up to 10 lbs

• Waist to Overhead > 5 lbs: Seldom up to 5 lbs

• Bilateral Carry > 5 lbs: Seldom up to 25 lbs

• Unilateral Carry > 5 lbs: Seldom up to 10 lbs

• Pushing Force > 5 lbs: Seldom up to 20 lbs

• Pulling Force > 5 lbs: Seldom up to 15 lbs

• Sitting: Occasionally

• Standing: Occasionally

• Walking: Occasionally

• Forward Bend - Standing: Seldom

• Forward Bend - Sitting: Seldom

• Trunk Rotation - Standing: Seldom

• Trunk Rotation - Sitting: Seldom

• Squat: Seldom

• Stair Climbing: Seldom

• Crawling / Kneeling: Seldom

• Reach - Above Shoulder: Seldom

• Reach - at Shoulder or Below: Seldom

• Handling: Occasionally

• Forceful Grip > 5 lbs: Seldom

• Forceful Pinch > 2 lbs: Seldom

• Finger/Hand Dexterity: Frequently

• Visual Acuity ¹[None = No; Seldom = Yes]: Seldom

• Color Vision (Ishihara) Test[None = No; Seldom = Yes]: Seldom

Primary Location

SITE - Beaumont Service Center - 26901 Beaumont Blvd

Department Name

Accountable Care Organization

Employment Type

Full time

Shift

Day (United States of America)

Weekly Scheduled Hours

40

Hours of Work

8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Days Worked

Monday to Friday

Weekend Frequency

N/A

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