Claims Supervisor

We exist for workers and their employers -- who are the backbone of our economy.  That is where Centivo comes in -- our mission is to bring affordable, high-quality healthcare to the millions who struggle to pay their healthcare bills.

Centivo is seeking a Claims Supervisor to lead a team of Claims Processors and Analysts, ensuring accurate and efficient claims processing for employer-sponsored health plans. This role sets productivity benchmarks, enforces quality standards, and drives continuous improvement.

The Claims Supervisor will collaborate with support teams to manage backlog and turnaround times while working with Quality/Training and System Configuration teams to standardize processes and resolve issues. They may also oversee appeals, subrogation, and overpayment/refunds, ensuring compliance and efficiency.

Your Impact:

• Demonstrates knowledge and understanding of benefit administration for self-funded healthcare plans

• Ensures that claims are processed and paid in accordance with benefit plans, pricing agreements, and required authorizations

• Manages the inventory of claims against standard service level agreements (SLA’s)

• Educates and mentors claims staff to ensure proper application of client benefit plans to claims processed, at the required quality and production metrics, including establishing performance plans for those falling below expectations with appropriate coaching and mentoring to achieve improvement

• Provides reports to department leaders on claim inventory, production, turn-around lag, and quality metrics

• Develops policy and procedures to ensure that benefit plans and claim standards are properly administered; assists in developing policies and procedures for operations, and monitors claim staff for compliance

• Accountable for positively influencing the morale of the department employees, including setting achievable goals, fostering teamwork by involving team in the design/implementation of solutions to problems

• Responsible to establish annual goals for staff that align with organization strategies and personal growth and can provide timely and constructive feedback on performance

• Liaison for the claims on various projects and/or initiatives including testing needs to support system implementations and/or upgrades

• Performs other duties as deemed essential and necessary

What You Bring to the Table:

• 3 years of experience with healthcare claims administration, self-funded preferred

• Experience leading and delegating tasks tasks to multiple direct reports

• Proficient experience in MS Word, Excel, Outlook, and PowerPoint required

• Candidates must have prior experience with a highly automated and integrated claim adjudication system, El Dorado-Javelina preferred but not required

• Strong organizational and interpersonal skills, with the ability to communicate effectively with others

• Ability to read and understand various forms, documentation, files, and information with the department.

 Work Location:

The candidate for this position is preferably located in Buffalo, NY with ability to travel to our downtown Buffalo office. Remote candidates will still be considered.

Centivo Values:

• Resilient – This is wicked hard. There is no easy button for healthcare affordability. Luckily, the mission makes it worth it and sustains us when things are tough. Being resilient ensures we don’t give up.

• Uncommon - The status quo stinks so we had to go out and build something better. We know the healthcare system. It isn't working for members, employers, and providers. So we're building it from scratch, from the ground up. Our focus is on making things better for them while also improving clinical results - which is bold and uncommon.

• Positive – We care about each other. It takes energy to do hard stuff, build something better and to be resilient and unconventional while doing it. Because of that, we make sure we give kudos freely and feedback with care. When our tank gets low, a team member is there to be a source of new energy. We celebrate together. We are supportive, generous, humble, and positive.

Who we are:

Centivo is an innovative health plan for self-funded employers on a mission to bring affordable, high-quality healthcare to the millions who struggle to pay their healthcare bills. Anchored around a primary care based ACO model, Centivo saves employers 15 to 30 percent compared to traditional insurance carriers. Employees also realize significant savings through our free primary care (including virtual), predictable copay and no-deductible benefit plan design. Centivo works with employers ranging in size from 51 employees to Fortune 500 companies. For more information, visit centivo.com.

Headquartered in Buffalo, NY with offices in New York City and Buffalo, Centivo is backed by leading healthcare and technology investors, including a recent round of investment from Morgan Health, a business unit of JPMorgan Chase & Co.