US Registered Nurse Analyst (USRN) | Temporary Work From Home  

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Conduct UM pre-service, concurrent, retrospective, out of network, and appropriateness of treatment setting.
• Reviews service requests to ensure compliance with applicable criteria, medical policy, and member eligibility, benefits and contracts.
• Utilize client specific criteria sets (e.g., Milliman or InterQual), applicable client specific medical policy and client clinical guidelines for decision making to either approve or summarize and route to Client's nursing reviewer and/or Client's medical staff for review.
• Accurately routes cases to client medical staff for further review when a service or admission does not meet medical necessity, place of service, or benefit criteria.
• Responsible for conducting medical management review activities which require the review of clinical information against client specific criteria as noted above but excludes denial determinations.
• Ensure member access to medically necessary, quality healthcare in a cost-effective setting according to contract.
• Consult with clinical reviewers and/or U.S. licensed medical directors to ensure medically appropriate, high quality, cost effective care throughout the medical management process.
• Collaborate with providers to assess members, needs for early identification of and proactive planning for discharge planning.
• Facilitate member care transition through the healthcare continuum and refer treatment plans/plan of care to clinical reviewers as required.
• Determine contract and benefit eligibility; obtain/confirm intake (demographic) information from callers and/or faxes.
• Conduct a thorough radius search in "Provider Finder" and follow up with provider on referrals given; refers cases requiring clinical review to a nurse reviewer.
• Process incoming requests, collection of information needed for review from providers, utilizing scripts to screen basic and complex requests for pre-certification and/or prior authorization. Verify benefits and/or eligibility information. Check benefits for facility-based treatment.

• Graduate of Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN)
• Must have at least 3 months’ work experience as a Registered Nurse in a clinical setting
• Must have an active USRN License
• Holds current and unrestricted US Registered Nurse license (state-specific RN licensure)
• Must be willing to work on a shifting schedule including graveyard shift
• Temporary work from home, but must be amenable to report to office once a month or as required by the Project

With up to 200,000* Joining Bonus! (EH 1955)