Provider Data Specialist - Eden Prairie, MN - Full-time / Part-time

Position Description:

Energize your career with one of Healthcare's fastest growing companies.  

You dream of a great career with a great company – where you can make an impact and help people.  We dream of giving you the opportunity to do just this.  And with the incredible growth of our business, it's a dream that definitely can come true. Already one of the world's leading Healthcare companies, UnitedHealth Group is restlessly pursuing new ways to operate our Service Centers, improve our Service levels and help people lead healthier lives. We live for the opportunity to make a difference and right now, we are living it up.

This opportunity is with one of our most exciting business areas: Optum –a growing part of our family of companies that make UnitedHealth Group a Fortune 14 leader.

Optum helps nearly 60 million Americans live their lives to the fullest by educating them about their symptoms, conditions, and treatments; helping them to navigate the system, finance their Healthcare needs, and stay on track with their Health goals. No other business touches so many lives in such a positive way. And we do it all with every action focused on our shared values of Integrity, Compassion, Relationships, Innovation, and Performance.

The Provider Data Specialist is responsible for various activities related to the Provider Network database which may include any or all of the following: database maintenance, reporting and extracting data for various reports and analyses, and initiating database improvement. Provider Data Specialists develop and maintain standards for database integrity and quality assurance, coordinate corrective activities to clean database and retain users, and manage communication processes with other departments regarding database improvements. Other responsibilities include conducting audits and providing feedback to reduce errors and improve processes and performance, maintaining current provider data to ensure the quality of the network, and may be responsible for representing the provider network area on company IT projects, reporting and tracking provider calls and complaints, or for the support, coordination, and production of the paper directory cycles.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Provider Data Entry.
• Data maintenance and verification.
• Initiating database improvements.
• Data integrity and quality assurance

Required Qualifications:

• High School Diploma/GED.
• 1+ year of previous Healthcare Industry experience.
• 1+ year of previous Customer Service or Claims experience.
• Ability to type at least 50 WPM and work in multiple systems.
  
• Ability to perform Data Entry and use sort/filter options in Microsoft Excel.
• Ability to create correspondence and work within templates in Microsoft Word.

Preferred Qualifications: 

• Previous experience working with Behavioral Healthcare Providers.
• Knowledge of Behavioral Medical Terminology.

Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: 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.