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Erica Domzalski

Erica Domzalski

Manchester,TN

Summary

As a seasoned Provider Relations Advocate, I bring 13 years of specialized experience in cultivating strategic partnerships and enhancing healthcare operations. My approach is visionary, focusing on the power of provider relations and operational excellence to enact meaningful change, implement impactful solutions and deliver actionable insights for organizational success. Eager to join your team to drive innovation and operational growth.

Overview

14
14
years of professional experience

Work History

Sr. Provider Relations Advocate

United healthcare
Telecommuter, TN
06.2018 - Current

• Primary responsibility for managing Strategic and CORE Health systems across multiple lines of business and building strong relationships with nationally contracted providers across the country.
• Spearhead initiatives to streamline provider relations processes, identifying key areas for enhancement and guiding decision-makers towards transformative changes.
• Analyze contracts, optimizing fee schedules and reimbursement rates.
• Develop strategic solutions for provider relations challenges, leveraging industry trends and best practices to drive continuous improvement and adaptation.
• Deliver impactful insights to executive leadership, translating complex contractual information into actionable recommendations for organizational growth.

Provider Relations Advocate

United healthcare
Chicago, IL
06.2016 - 06.2018
  • Establishing and fostering strong, positive relationships with key providers by coordinating, facilitating and leading partnership meetings
  • Review new policies, products and issue resolution in Chicago, Illinois Market
  • Work on end-to-end provider complex claim issues and deliver resolution
  • Educate providers and staff on using United Healthcare portal and provide updates on future service enhancements
  • Directing and implementing strategies relating to development and management of provider network
  • Identifying gaps in network
  • Active participation with PCOR reporting relating to HEDIS measurements
  • Established building and maintain professional relationships with providers to ensure provider satisfaction
  • Prioritize and organizes own work to meet deadlines
  • Plan, organize and facilitate WebEx, orientations, and site visits
  • Initiated physician and hospital orientations to support ongoing education of health care provider community
  • Proactively decreased provider A/R

Customer Advocacy Quality Coach

Cigna
Bourbonnais, IL
03.2015 - 06.2016
  • Supports and drives process improvement to enhance accuracy outcomes to benefit customer and organization
  • Takes necessary actions to prevent call-backs or extended hold times
  • Provides specific call detail for ongoing analysis to identify claim accuracy, customer communication and account-level trends that will be shared across departments
  • Influences advocates to use resources and experience to identify information necessary to resolve customer issues and build their knowledge and skills
  • Creates positive environment in which Advocates are empowered to ask for additional training and coaching
  • Researched and resolved disputes, billing discrepancies and claims efficiently to maintain customer satisfaction, boosting NPS scores
  • Established and tracked quality department goals and objectives
  • Applied coaching techniques and tools to support new hires in improving performance
  • Scheduled and chaired quality review meetings to review effectiveness of performance mitigating risk, improving throughput and achieving customer satisfaction
  • Assured consistent quality of production by implementing and enforcing automated practice systems
  • Evaluated interactions between associates and customers to assess personnel performance and implement strategies for customer satisfaction improvement
  • Quickly learned new skills and applied them to daily tasks, improving efficiency and productivity
  • Managed 15 new hires to identify quality or call issue trends and create and implement action plans to appropriately address

Personal Service Advocate Senior Associate

Cigna
Bourbonnais, IL
06.2011 - 03.2015
  • Provide subject matter expertise to new hires to increase efficiencies, navigate systems, and identify trends
  • Support complex office initiatives
  • Strive to exceed goals and objectives
  • Establish and maintain effective business relationship
  • Keep commitments to customers
  • Selected to participate in Cigna pilot program that involved new software to increase self-efficiencies and accuracy via phone with providers and customers
  • Analyzed customers' issues and complaints and initiated corrective actions
  • Targeted specific community groups with wellness and disease management information
  • Managed over 60 calls per day interacted with members and providers

Education

Bachelor of Arts - Art

Saint Joseph’s College
Rensselaer, IN
05.2007

Skills

  • 13 years of healthcare industry experience; 6 years of experience with National Ancillary providers; 8 years of healthcare insurance industry experience with UHC
  • Advanced understanding in Medicare, Medicaid, and Commercial business
  • 8 years of experience with UHG systems such as: NICE, UNET, ICUE, SALESFORCE PRODUCTS, IMPACT, ENTERPRISE NOW, ORS, PEGA, COSMOS, ISET, CSP FACETS, and NDB
  • High level of proficiency with MS Office, MS TEAMs, MS Word, MS Excel, SharePoint, WebEx, and Outlook
  • Hard working team player with strong written and verbal communication skills
  • Knowledge in referrals, prior authorizations, claims, benefits and eligibility as well as utilizing digital tools and online resources
  • Research analysis, problem solving, project management, and participating in event planning
  • Team building
  • Attention to Detail
  • Excellent Communication
  • Flexible and adaptable to change and direction in fast paced environment

Accomplishments

  • Self-Service Ambassador – Digital Ambassadors Team
  • Publications – Update on billing recommendation documentation for Calcimimetic medications
  • PCA for Dialysis Providers
  • Project Sunshine, United Healthcare

Timeline

Sr. Provider Relations Advocate

United healthcare
06.2018 - Current

Provider Relations Advocate

United healthcare
06.2016 - 06.2018

Customer Advocacy Quality Coach

Cigna
03.2015 - 06.2016

Personal Service Advocate Senior Associate

Cigna
06.2011 - 03.2015

Bachelor of Arts - Art

Saint Joseph’s College
Erica Domzalski