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Overview
ECG is the most experienced healthcare consulting firm working in the U.S. At ECG, our primary emphasis is on quality—in our people as well as our services—and we’re seeking others who appreciate our high standards of excellence.
About ECG
With knowledge and expertise built over the course of 50-plus years, ECG is a national consulting firm that is redefining healthcare together with its clients. ECG offers a broad range of strategic, financial, operational, and technology-enabled consulting services encompassing health system performance improvement, ambulatory care planning, market consolidation, and physician enterprise optimization. ECG is an industry leader offering specialized expertise to clients across the full continuum of care, including hospitals, health systems, medical groups, academic medical centers, children’s hospitals, cancer centers, ambulatory surgery centers, investors, and payers/health plans.
At ECG, our consultants are working to create a healthier future for every patient. By creating partnerships with our clients and asking the tough questions, we provide honest, tailored solutions that empower them to maximize their resources. Together with our clients, we’re making healthcare more accessible, sustainable, and effective for the patients and communities they support. We’re looking for leaders to join our passionate team, combining experience and courage to make healthcare more accessible and patient-centric for everyone. ECG is committed to ensuring a supportive work environment that embraces DEI, recognizes performance, communicates transparently, and values work/life balance.
Our national presence includes offices in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Minneapolis, San Diego, Seattle, St. Louis, and Washington, DC.
Join Our Ambulatory Surgery Center (ASC) Practice
Our growing ASC service line is part of the strategy team and works with providers across the country in all major aspects of the surgery business, including health system surgery site-of-service assessments, ASC strategic planning, surgery operations, ASC development, due diligence for mergers and acquisitions, managed care contract negotiations, and ASC feasibility studies, as well as the design of strategies that drive alignment and unity while being sustainable, scalable, and adaptable. Our detailed plans incorporate qualitative findings with data-driven strategic, operational, reimbursement, and financial considerations that enable organizations to pursue realistic change. Our consultants bridge the gap between strategic thinking and operational implementation with sensible action plans and tactical recommendations. This approach allows us to stretch our clients’ thinking while ensuring that initiatives with the broadest and deepest impact are prioritized and implementable.
Your Opportunity with ECG: Manager
As a manager at ECG, you’ll be an important part of our consulting team. Not only will you partner with some of the industry’s best to reach your highest goals, but you will also make a real difference in people’s lives and grow personally and professionally while doing so. Here, no two days or projects are alike, which means you’ll have a lot to learn and plenty of support to help you succeed.
Your Responsibilities May Include:
• Managing client projects associated with managed care.
• Managing and mentoring junior staff, providing support to managed care projects.
• Conducting in-depth reimbursement and surgery site-of-service analytics in hospitals, health systems, and ASCs.
• Using reimbursement modeling to inform and conduct in-depth financial and strategic analyses supporting executable strategy recommendations.
• Modeling payer contract proposals and collaborating with ECG leaders on contracting strategy.
• Participating in stakeholder interviews.
• Leading information-gathering efforts necessary for executing contract negotiations and other reimbursement-related projects.
• Assessing revenue and overall financial impact by payer and reimbursement class attributed to site-of-service migration (e.g., hospital inpatient, HOPD to ASC, modifications to payment systems and logic).
• Coordinating contract compliance tools and providing training to clients on reimbursement outcomes resulting from negotiations.
• Managing selected client relationships.
• Leading appropriate client presentations.
• Assisting in developing and managing work plans, schedules, and budgets.
• Defining project analyses and deliverables.
• Leading teams and implementing recommended solutions.
• Working on multiple engagements.
• Communicating project progress and seeking input.
• Developing depth of technical expertise.
• Identifying follow-on opportunities and helping scope and close follow-on engagements.
• Working closely with multiple project teams and ECG senior consulting leaders.
• Taking responsibility for project outcomes.
• Communicating effectively with management and executive-level client staff.
• Drafting proposals.
• Learning about ECG’s breadth of solutions and identifying those that reflect personal and professional interests.
• Participating in peer and junior staff knowledge development and career advancement.
• Demonstrating the ability to excel at consulting while balancing work and personal life.
• Acting as an ECG ambassador within personal, professional, and alumni networks.
Our Expectations of You
• Strong knowledge of and passion for the healthcare industry
• Bachelor’s degree in business administration, economics, actuarial science, or in a health-related field; master’s degree a plus
• Seven or more years of experience in reimbursement and financial analyses and contract negotiations in insurance contracting
• Demonstrated knowledge and understanding of CPT codes, reimbursement systems, and managed care and insurance contract evaluation and negotiation
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills
• Proven track record of solving complex problems and completing challenging projects
• Demonstrated diagnostic, analytical, and quantitative skills
• Track record of strong client service
• Demonstrated career progression with increasing responsibilities
• Strong written and verbal presentation skills
• Ability to travel at least 40% of the time
Job Locations
Preference will be given to candidates in Seattle or San Diego, but other ECG offices include Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Minneapolis, St. Louis, and Washington, DC. Able to work a hybrid schedule with days in office and remote.
Schedule
Full time/exempt
What You Can Expect of Us
To reward our driven, innovative, and passionate employees, we’ve built a company culture that’s centered on performance. We offer an attractive compensation package, challenging work, and an entrepreneurial environment where you can take ownership of your career—and get out as much as you put in.
The estimated base salary range for this job is $150,000 – $176,000 annually. It represents a good faith estimate of the range that ECG reasonably expects to pay at the time of the job posting. The actual salary paid will vary based on multiple factors, including but not limited to years of experience, special skills, and market changes. This job is eligible to participate in ECG’s annual incentive compensation program, which reflects ECG’s pay-for-performance philosophy. The job is also eligible to participate in ECG’s benefit plans, which includes medical, dental, and vision coverage, unlimited PTO, and other wellness programs.
Apply now and make an impact for years to come.
To begin the recruitment process, please submit your resume via our career site at https://careers.ecgmc.com.
ECG provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to sex, race, color, religion, national origin, citizenship, ancestry, age, disability, pregnancy, medical condition (cancer and genetic characteristics), genetic information, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, military or veteran status, or any other legally protected characteristic. People of color are encouraged to apply. We participate in E-Verify as part of our onboarding process. Having the permanent legal right to work in the United States is a condition of employment. ECG is not currently able to provide assistance to candidates requiring sponsorship or a visa.
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