Kansas Medicaid Compliance Consultant Senior at Elevance Health in Topeka, Kansas

Job Description:

Kansas Medicaid Compliance Consultant Senior




Location: Must be located in/a resident of Kansas



This position will take part in Elevance Health's hybrid workforce strategy which includes virtual work and 1-2 days in office per week, with the in office setting in Topeka, Kansas


The Compliance Consultant Senior owns facilitation of correspondence with the state of Kansas. This includes working closely with the Compliance Director and Manager around complaint resolution and understanding of the root causes and control breakdowns that lead to member, provider, and state complaints/issues. This role works directly with local plan leadership, and ensures key interactions with the Kansas are appropriately addressed.



How You Will Make an Impact



Primary duties with advanced complexity and broad/enterprise scale may include, but are not limited to:

• Tracker of issue state correspondence, confirming our business partners understand and address the root cause and control breakdowns that lead to member, provider, and state complaints/issues.


• Building relationships with internal partners to help identify the appropriate parties to support state requests.


• Oversee health plan responses to state requests, ensuring complete and timeline responses are provided.


• Researches and responds to questions about requirements in the contract, and state-based interpretation and enforcement of those requirements and owns the Kansas Medicaid Compliance Committee.


• Supports business development and maintenance of the contract through request for proposal support.


• Supports health plan leaders with business operational reviews with senior Medicaid leadership.


• Meets with the key regulatory contacts biweekly or more often as needed, ensuring the health plan is meeting regulatory expectations.


• Supports Elevance Health's Audit COE in understanding the state requirements that are being audited against, and the key state health plan leaders (local and centralized) responsible for each area of the audit.


• Review collateral and member messaging developed that would be distributed to members for the state (local, compliance related, and centralized).


• Performs reviews of policies and procedures developed locally, and for centralized support to ensure compliance with state contracts.

• Requires a BA/BS and minimum of 5 years health care, regulatory, ethics, compliance or privacy experience; or any combination of education and experience, which would provide an equivalent background.

• Managed care operations experience highly preferred.


• Strong managerial and collaboration skills and ability to motivate/coach other staff strongly preferred.


• MS/MBA or professional designation preferred.