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Medical Policy Specialist II

Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey
tuition reimbursement
United States, New Jersey, Newark
Mar 31, 2026

Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey empowers our members to achieve their best health. For over 90 years, we have been New Jersey's health solutions leader driving innovations that improve health care quality, affordability, and member experience. Our members are our neighbors, our friends, and our families. It is this understanding that drives us to better serve and care for the 3.5 million people who place their trust in us. We pride ourselves on our best-in-class employees and strive to maintain an innovative and inclusive environment that allows them to thrive. When our employees bring their best and succeed, the Company succeeds.

About the Role

This position is responsible for the development and maintenance of Horizon Blue Cross and Blue Shield of New Jersey (HBCBSNJ) medical policy in conjunction with physician staff and the coordination of policy implementation with the Coding, Integration and NASCO/FACETS IT Teams including gathering and analyzing data to validate business impact of the policies. In addition, this position is responsible for coordinating UM Vendor activities related to the various UM Vendor Delegation Programs.

What You'll Do

  • Development of new and revision of existing Medical Policies.

  • Performs research of the medical literature and other reliable sources. Medical Societies, UpToDate, ClinicalTrials.gov, etc.

  • Monitors and incorporates Centers of Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) directives into the medical policy document and integration as appropriate.

  • Ensure that any related government and accreditation body regulations and directives are applied in the development, maintenance and integration of the medical policies as appropriate.

  • Obtains and analyses financial impact data regarding new policies when possible Gathers, analyzes and presents data as required by the committees.

  • Presentation of the policies and their impact to the Clinical Policy Committee and its subcommittees.

  • Actively engages in the annual review of medical policies.

  • Actively participates in the weekly Policy Committee and subcommittee meetings.

  • Assigning policies and assisting other team members in the review of their assigned policies.

  • Ensures completion of medical policy updates in the medical policy database (EMM) and the corresponding medical policy portal display (MP Web page).

  • Collaborates with the Clinical Coding Team on setting appropriate code parameters based on available sources and clinical description of code.

  • Collaborates with the Clinical Coding Team, Policy Quality and Reporting Team, Medical Policy Implementation and the NASCO/FACETS IT Teams for the system integration of Horizon medical policies for commercial, Medicare and Medicaid lines of business.

  • Maintain Medical Policy resource data supportive of Plan policy.

  • Ensures the accuracy of the published policy or provider notifications in the HBCBSNJ provider portal.

  • Monitoring and resolution of inquiries to the Medical Policy Team mailboxes (internal and external).

  • Tracks policy status for NCQA and DOBI standards.

  • Monitoring the alignment, accuracy and timeliness of information in the Evidence Management Module/Medical Policy Platform and the Horizon Medical Policy Web Display page.

  • Tracking and completion of Vendor Program Change Control Forms (CCFs).

  • Review issues identified through retrospective utilization review and coordinate activity between Utilization Review/Medical Policy to effectively resolve.

  • Coordinates the review of overturn cases from appeals and IMEs for determination of the need for policy reevaluation and/or revision.

  • Collaborates with other staff in gathering from multiple sources, analyzing and presenting data to the subcommittees to establish the business impact of active medical policies and guide appropriate stakeholder decision making for policy maintenance and implementation

  • Responsible for the review, alignment and presentation of Vendor medical policies/clinical guidelines for the various UM Vendor Programs to the Clinical Policy Committee for approval and adoption.

  • Participate in special projects as directed by management to improve unit functioning and assist in meeting Plan goals.

  • Orient and train new team members.

What You Bring

Education/Experience:

  • High School Diploma/GED required.

  • Bachelor degree preferred or relevant experience in lieu of degree.

  • Require five (5) to seven (7) years clinical nursing/physician experience.

  • Require three (3) to five (5) years medical claims processing experience.

  • Require clinical research and policy development and maintenance experience.

  • Require data management (gathering and analysis) experience.

Special Licenses and Certifications:

  • No Regulatory Requirement; Active Unrestricted NJ RN License or foreign-trained physician preferred.

Knowledge:

  • Require in depth knowledge of anatomy and physiology.

  • Require knowledge of health care delivery systems.

  • Require in depth knowledge of CPT, ICD-9, and HCPC coding structure.

  • Require working knowledge of medical policy processing and files.

Skills and Abilities:

  • Require ability to perform detailed analysis of medical information.

  • Require good oral and written communication skills.

  • Require good interpersonal skills.

  • Require good technical aptitude.

  • Require ability to organize, document and resolve issues independently.

  • Require discretion in the handling of confidential information.

  • Prefer good PC skills.

Why Horizon?

At Horizon, you'll do meaningful work that directly improves lives-while being supported by a missiondriven organization that values expertise, collaboration, and growth. We believe that when our people thrive, our communities do too. If you are passionate about making an impact, we'd love to hear from you!

Salary Range:

$97,800 - $133,455

This compensation range is specific to the job level and takes into account the wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions, including but not limited to: education, experience, licensure, certifications, geographic location, and internal equity. This range has been created in good faith based on information known to Horizon at the time of posting. Compensation decisions are dependent on the circumstances of each case. Horizon also provides a comprehensive compensation and benefits package which includes:

  • Comprehensive health benefits (Medical/Dental/Vision)

  • Retirement Plans

  • Generous PTO

  • Incentive Plans

  • Wellness Programs

  • Paid Volunteer Time Off

  • Tuition Reimbursement

Disclaimer:

Horizon BCBSNJ employees must live in New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Connecticut or Delaware. This job summary has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by colleagues within this classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of colleagues assigned to this job.

Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran status or status as an individual with a disability and any other protected class as required by federal, state or local law. Horizon will consider reasonable accommodation requests as part of the recruiting and hiring process.

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