Medicare Risk Program Manager

Job Description
Use your strengths as a Medicare Risk Program Manager at Wellmark! 
About the Opportunity: As a Medicare Risk Program Manager, you will be responsible for the development and maintenance of robust Medicare Risk Adjustment programs to ensure the health plan fully understands the illness burden of our membership. In this critical individual contributor role, you will manage risk adjustment programs, support the strategy execution and analyze risk adjustment program performance data to identify, lead and prioritize strategies to improve risk scoring accuracy in alignment with Wellmark strategies. As a driver of Medicare Advantage (MA) company-identified initiatives, you will be the point-person for driving success on coding accuracy and risk adjustment programs. You won’t do it alone. In this role, you will partner alongside Wellmark, and joint venture, team members focused on program management, analytics, provider performance, and more to drive change and progress. 
About you: As this is a newly created role, the opportunity to build out risk adjustment related programs around identified strategies excites you! You are ready to use your MA experience in initiative development, data analytics, medical coding accuracy, risk adjustment, process management, and change management to make an impact. Collaboration is critical in this role, not just internally but externally with Wellmark’s joint venture partner and MA specific vendors. You are organized, flexible, and results-oriented, leading you to take initiative and problem-solve to meet key objectives.  
This position will work a hybrid schedule of at least 3 days in Wellmark’s Des Moines, IA office, with two days remote option.