About the Role

The Medicaid Compliance Analyst promotes and enforces compliance with all Medicaid regulations in current states of practice. Together with the Chief Compliance Officer, this individual will serve as a subject matter expert for all Medicaid contracts and agreements, ensuring that Charlie Health can effectively deliver care to clients with Medicaid plans.

Our team is comprised of passionate, forward-thinking professionals eager to take on the challenge of the mental health crisis and play a formative role in providing life-saving solutions. We are looking for a candidate who is inspired by our mission and excited by the opportunity to increase access to mental healthcare and impact millions of lives in a profound way.

Responsibilities

• Proactively monitoring Medicaid regulations for any new and/or amended requirements and submitting them for review for the Regulatory Change Management team
• Developing a repository for all Medicaid regulations, guidance, and interpretation
• Performing gap analysis of new states where the business is beginning to establish Medicaid contracts and working with business units to address gaps
• Communicating with and building rapport with state Medicaid departments
• Partnering with the Growth Strategy and Commercial Strategy teams to build rapport with contracted Medicaid Health Plans and participating in Provider Forums and onboarding discussions
• Participating in state Medicaid audits, inspections, and surveys; providing audit readiness assessments and guidance to impacted business units
• Instituting internal audit or monitoring activities for Medicaid related deficiencies
• Managing development of corrective action plans in response to deficiency notices received from state Medicaid plans
• Initiating and managing corrective action plans resulting from internal audits/monitoring activities
• Other duties as assigned

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree required or equivalent in experience
• 1-3 years of relevant work experience, with at least 1 year of experience in a healthcare administration environment. Medicaid and/or behavioral health experience highly desirable
• Experience dealing with multiple internal and external customers
• Excellent verbal and written communication
• Detail oriented
• Proactive self-starter and natural multitasker
• Outside the box thinker; excellent at problem solving, strong critical thinking skills. Ability to see situations from multiple points of view
• Microsoft Office proficiency
• Familiarity with and willingness to use cloud-based communication software—Google Suite, Slack, Zoom, Dropbox, Salesforce
• Strong interpersonal, relationship-building and listening skills, with a natural, consultative style
• Ability to energize, communicate, and build rapport at all levels within an organization
• Strong project management skills, with a demonstrable ability to corral and manage details in a fast-paced, fluid environment
• Experience advising, presenting to, and persuading senior corporate personnel
• Able to work a hybrid schedule of 4 days/week in our NYC office and located within 75 minutes' commuting distance of the office
• Work authorized in the United States and native or bilingual English proficiency

Benefits

Charlie Health is pleased to offer comprehensive benefits to all full-time, exempt employees. Read more about our benefits here.

Additional Information

The total target cash compensation for this role will be between $77,000 and $110,000 per year at the commencement of employment. However, pay will be determined on an individualized basis and will be impacted by location and number of years of experience. Further, cash compensation is only part of the total compensation package, which, depending on the position, may include stock options and other Charlie Health-sponsored benefits.#LI-HYBRID