This role is responsible for the strategic leadership of behavioral health and addiction recovery treatment services for the health plan. This includes program development, design, outcomes measurement, and evaluation of behavioral health programs for the Medicaid and Medicare lines of business for OHP and VPHP.  Will also have oversight for Sentara Health Plan’s EAP product and program.

The primary role of this program is the oversight and operational execution of the Medicaid and Medicare Behavioral Health Utilization Management (UM) and Care Management (CM) Programs in meeting both the DMAS Medicaid requirements but also the Medicare MAPD, DSNP and CSNP requirements for the end-to-end BH UM and BHCM programs.  This position is responsible for meeting all regulatory and accreditation requirements and in meeting clinical, quality, and Clinical Efficiency targets, DMAS PWP, clinical KPI and MLR targets. 

The BH UM functions apply to members in need of inpatient and outpatient behavioral health needs requiring authorization and include precertification (prior auth) concurrent review, retrospective review, the application of evidenced based clinical criteria for decision making, adhering top all Medicaid and Medicare approval and denial processes inclusive of member and provider letters and meeting all turnaround time standards and ensuring continuity of care. The BH UM inpatient function applies to inpatient psych facilities and the outpatient function applies to crisis stabilization, Addiction Recovery (ARTS), Community Mental Health Related Services (CMHRS), justice program, Peer support programs, prisoner early release program and transition of care. This program is accountable to impact clinical KPI’s related to a reduction in the MLR

The BH CM functions follows the Medicaid and Medicare requirements for case management. The primary role of this program is the oversight and operational execution in meeting both the DMAS/CMS Medicaid/Medicare requirements and the NCQA Medicaid Health Plan Accreditation and the NCQA Medicaid LTSS Distinction. This position is responsible for meeting all regulatory and accreditation requirements and in meeting Clinical Efficiency, PWP targets as well as compliance with all benchmark requirements for reporting and measures tied to Care Management functions. The department is key to gaps in care management in meeting HEDIS measures

•    Oversight and execution of the Health Plans Utilization Management Program and Case 
        Management Programs as defined above 
•    Performance Management oversight and accountability for both utilization and case 
        management reg and operational reporting, production metrics, clinical KPI’s and staff 
       performance and accountability; strong analytic component to role in driving results based on 
        data and trends
•    Drives business operations and tactics in support of impacting the MLR, clinical KPI’s such as 
        admits and bed days/k, ALOS, medical director referral and denial rates, readmission rates, ER 
        rates and Clinical Efficiency measures/targets, Medicaid PWP measures, Cost of Care tactical 
        ideation and execution and the BH HEDIS rates
•    Achieve new BH NCQA Accreditation
•    Responsible for implementation of various new programs, initiatives and vendor projects and 
        the resultant success thereof
•    Budget and staff management responsibilities to provide ROIs to support changes in staffing 
        complement or development of new programs
•    Responsible for all UM and CM reg reporting validation is complete and timely and represents 
        results to DMAS/CMS and various audits conducted by DMAS, CMS, NCQA, QI and internal 
        audit
•    Responsible for the success of the UM and CM components of the Medicaid NCQA 
        Accreditation and the Medicaid NCQA LTSS distinction
•    Serve as thought leader to various department leaders, plan presidents, plan vice presidents 
         and various departments related to all requirements and communications for members and 
         providers related to the utilization management and care management programs

•    Oversight and execution of the BH Component of the DMAS Care Management Model of Care 
       (Cardinal) includes adherence to all Health Risk Assessment, Interdisciplinary Care Plan, Mental 
       health Screenings timing and documentation requirements, in addition to the provision of care 
       management services using risk stratification to define the BH related subpopulations
•    Contribute to the results of the Medicaid Efficiency and Cost of Care programs focused on UM 
        optimization; supports the UM Model Transformation strategy al the ~ 2 dozen defined 
        opportunities for impacting improvements in production, efficiency, education, documentation, 
        utilization trend improvement and clinical compliance: reduce MLR is primary expectation
•    Achieve NCQA Accreditations for Medicaid Health Plan and LTSS Distinction UM and CM 
        components; and achieve first time BH NCQA Accreditation; contribute to the improvement of 
        CAHPS
•    Successful implementation of the Medicare and Medicaid QXNT/CAPs implementation 
•    Achieve DMAS/CMS reporting requirements inclusive of required completion rates and 
        timeliness for all authorization types and letter management requirements 
•    Serve as thought leader to DMAS and Sentara Health System BH Strategy, thought leader with 
       various department leaders, plan presidents, plan vice presidents and various departments 
        related to all requirements and communications for members and providers related to the 
        utilization and care management programs
•    Support the RFP process and eventual implementation of a winning bid
•    Meet targets for turnover rate, advance staff growth, diversity and associate satisfaction
•    Support overall membership growth goals through the delivery of excellence in customer 
        service and fiduciary responsibility

Key working relationships include:
-    Various leaders at DMAS: participates in workgroups and committees, responds to inquiries 
        from congressional, senate, government, DHHS leader inquiries; thought leader with DMAS on 
        BH ideation and pilots
-    VP Clinical Care Services: one-over manager
-    Plan president- regular engagement with respect to barriers, challenges and successes of BH 
        UM and CM program;  supports attendance with plan president to various meetings; provides 
        updates to all BH UM and programs, ideation efforts, tactical plans and clinical KPI results; 
        identifies key trends of concerns and where plan president/DMAS can support improvement 
        opportunities;  follows up on all plan president inquiries and needs; provides thought 
        leadership
-    VP Performance Management: accountable to meet regulatory and financial targets inclusive 
        of adhering to all DMAS and CMS reporting requirements, validation of reports, cost of care 
       program management and driving the BH UM and CM efforts to impact HEDIS gaps in care, 
        PWP and Clinical Efficiency and clinical KPI’s 
-    Vice President VBC: assists with education and design of BH VBC programs
-    Sentara BH Leaders: serves in key role of BH strategy; serves on steering group for decisions 
       related to design of program, vendor selection and partnership with providers and health plan
-    Directors across Member Outreach, Appeals and Grievances, Quality Improvement, Analytics, 
        Cost of Care, Network: various relationships synergist to meeting the role requirements and 
        success

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