Opportunities at Change Healthcare, part of the Optum family of businesses. We are transforming the health care system through innovative technology and analytics. Find opportunities to make a difference in a variety of career areas as we all play a role in accelerating health care transformation. Help us deliver cutting-edge solutions for patients, hospitals and insurance companies, resulting in healthier communities. Use your talents to improve the health outcomes of millions of people and discover the meaning behind: Caring. Connecting. Growing together.

Change Healthcare is a leading healthcare technology company with a mission to inspire a better healthcare system. We deliver innovative solutions to patients, hospitals, and insurance companies to improve clinical decision making, simplify financial processes, and enable better patient experiences to improve lives and support healthier communities.

The Health Services RN position is in a Managed Services organization (does not reside on Client/Practice site). The RN telephonically assists and guides patients toward self-management and behavior modifications that result in improved patient outcomes. The RN is the primary point of contact, coordinating with schedulers, pharmacists, providers of medical and behavioral health care and social services. Success is measured in terms of improved patient outcomes, prevention of patient adverse events and unnecessary inpatient readmissions, satisfied customers, meeting, or exceeding quality measures, producing consistent and high-quality work and collaboration with other care team members.

Our ideal candidate is an experienced nurse, able to perform tasks independently and once trained, without significant guidance.

Work Location: Fully Remote - U.S.

You’ll enjoy the flexibility to work remotely * from anywhere within the U.S. as you take on some tough challenges.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Provides Nursing support for health service providers via phone in areas including but not necessarily limited to:
• Telephonic nurse triage services
• Provide education to patients, deploying best practices and standard workflow in their daily activities
• Apply their expertise across the various areas of responsibility, understand how their interactions with patients affect customer satisfaction and can make recommendations to improve processes
• Apply established protocols, criteria, and contract guidelines
• Coordination of the team approach to management of patient care
• Analyze, investigate, and resolve individual care quality, coordination of care, service and access issues
• Contact patients and providers regarding clinical needs for continuity of care
  

You’ll be rewarded and recognized for your performance in an environment that will challenge you and give you clear direction on what it takes to succeed in your role as well as provide development for other roles you may be interested in.

Required Qualifications:

• New York RN License
• 3+ years of relevant work experience, in related clinical, managed healthcare or healthcare setting
• Schedule Options: Monday through Friday 8:30am-5pm
  

Preferred Qualifications:

• Very good knowledge of healthcare, government, and insurance industry trends
• Excellent understanding of health-service related processes relevant to assigned role and responsibilities
• Proven solid analytical and interpersonal skills and ability to interact with senior level clients, and high level of computer literacy
  

Careers with Optum. Our objective is to make health care simpler and more effective for everyone. With our hands at work across all aspects of health, you can play a role in creating a healthier world, one insight, one connection and one person at a time. We bring together some of the greatest minds and ideas to take health care to its fullest potential, promoting health equity and accessibility. Work with diverse, engaged and high-performing teams to help solve important challenges.

California, Colorado, Connecticut, Nevada, New York, Rhode Island, or Washington Residents Only: The hourly range for California, Colorado, Connecticut, Nevada, New York, Rhode Island or Washington residents is $27.07 to $53.08. Pay is based on several factors including but not limited to education, work experience, certifications, etc. In addition to your salary, UnitedHealth Group offers benefits such as, a comprehensive benefits package, incentive and recognition programs, equity stock purchase and 401k contribution (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements). No matter where or when you begin a career with UnitedHealth Group, you’ll find a far-reaching choice of benefits and incentives.

*All employees working remotely will be required to adhere to UnitedHealth Group’s Telecommuter Policy

At UnitedHealth Group, our mission is to help people live healthier lives and make the health system work better for everyone. We believe everyone–of every race, gender, sexuality, age, location and income–deserves the opportunity to live their healthiest life. Today, however, there are still far too many barriers to good health which are disproportionately experienced by people of color, historically marginalized groups and those with lower incomes. We are committed to mitigating our impact on the environment and enabling and delivering equitable care that addresses health disparities and improves health outcomes — an enterprise priority reflected in our mission.

Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: UnitedHealth Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.

UnitedHealth Group is a drug - free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment.