Regional Director of Payer Strategies (Healthcare)

Location: Full-time remote position associated with locations in Clive, Des Moines, and Davenport, Iowa, and Walker, Michigan, United States

Salary: $176,596–$291,384 annually

Company

hirify.global provides compassionate, person-centered healthcare services and operates through hospitals and regional health ministries.

What you will do

• Develop and execute managed care and commercial payer strategies with regional hospital CFOs and CEOs.
• Negotiate payer contracts using consistent language and reimbursement methodologies aligned with regional strategies.
• Implement managed care contracts, payer policy changes, monitoring programs, and denial management programs across hospitals and Revenue Excellence.
• Monitor payer financial and operational performance, compliance, corrective actions, and improvement initiatives.
• Build relationships with payer and hospital senior leadership, identify collaboration opportunities, and serve as the liaison between hospitals and payers.
• Prepare payer reporting packages, develop market profiles, lead pay-for-performance initiatives, and manage regional payer contracting staff and budgets.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration or equivalent knowledge of healthcare finance, managed care, and insurer contracting.
• Eight to ten years of healthcare experience, including substantial experience working with managed care and other payers.
• Proven contract negotiation knowledge and skills.
• Strong analytical, written, and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to work effectively in a collaborative, shared-leadership environment.
• Ability to maintain compliance with applicable federal, state, and local laws and healthcare regulations.

Nice to have

• Master’s in Business Administration or Health Administration.
• Professional certification such as FHFMA, FACHE, or FAHM.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time remote work arrangement.
• Leadership grounded in reverence, justice, stewardship, integrity, and commitment to vulnerable communities.
• Collaborative environment focused on compassionate, person-centered care.
• Equal opportunity employment.