Overview

Join our team as a day shift, full-time, Quality Improvement Coordinator in Tyler, TX. 

Fulfilling your purpose begins here: 

People First, Always. Here’s how we take care of our people: 

• Medical, vision, dental health insurance, health savings account / flexible spending, competitive pay, paid time off, 401k retirement plan with company match, employee assistance program and more. 

Your team is bigger than your department: 

• UT Health East Texas Physicians has over 90 primary and specialty care clinics, providing comprehensive medical education and innovative research. There are also residency programs throughout our hospitals and clinics actively training the medical leaders of the future.
• We believe healthcare is a team sport and every player has something to contribute. We show compassion, celebrate differences and treat one another with respect. 

Responsibilities

• Performs abstraction of clinical information for CMS and Payers
• Coordinates aggregation of data from within and outside the department
• Attends and participates on assigned performance improvement committees and team meetings
• Ability to exercise judgment, courtesy, and tact in receiving callers, in giving information and obtaining information, and in making proper disposition of problems
• Assists in preparing monthly, bi-monthly, quarterly, and annually quality reports as assigned
• Abstracts clinical data and entry to clinical abstraction software that meet CMS Core Measure performance improvement initiatives
• Create and maintain patient registries for an assigned panel of patients with chronic diseases, preventive health needs and other registries as needed
• Using data from registries, identify gaps in care for patients with identified diagnosis, those identified as high risk and those with outstanding preventive health needs while documenting contacts, education, and appointments provided in EMR
• Assist Care Coordination with quality improvement activities at the physician practices
• Validates regulatory reports by conducting chart audits.
• Provides timely feedback to reporting team and management
• Performs other duties as assigned

Qualifications

Job Requirements: 

• High school diploma or equivalent
• One to three minimum years clinical or healthcare experience

Preferred Experience: 

• LVN certification
• Quality experience
• Experience using Epic EMR
• Medicare Advantage experience