MD-Staff Systems Expert - Payer Enrollment

Contract-to-Perm Preferred | Open to Contract Only
Remote | Optional travel to New Jersey
Company Description
HealthShift Leaders is a consulting and fractional leadership firm dedicated to helping healthcare organizations scale, optimize operations, and drive meaningful transformation. We partner with organizations on strategic initiatives, operational redesign, fractional executive leadership, and specialized talent solutions that create measurable impact.

Role Description
We are seeking an experienced

MD-Staff Systems Expert - Payer Enrollment

to support a major enterprise reconfiguration and cleanup effort for a large health system. This role is

contract-to-perm preferred , though we are also open to

contract-only

candidates with the right experience.

This position is designed for a truly

MD-Staff expert

with strong

payer enrollment expertise . The immediate focus is helping optimize and clean up payer enrollment workflows within MD-Staff, while improving overall system configuration, data integrity, reporting, and operational consistency across a highly complex enterprise environment.

This work will support a large health system spanning approximately

10,000 providers

across multiple hospitals and physician groups.

What Youll Do

Serve as the

MD-Staff subject matter expert

for payer enrollment workflow optimization and system improvement

Lead or support the

cleanup, reconfiguration, and standardization of MD-Staff

to better support payer enrollment operations

Assess current workflows, data structures, system setup, and reporting to identify breakdowns, inefficiencies, and opportunities for improvement

Partner with operational leaders and stakeholders across payer enrollment, credentialing, provider data, and medical staff functions

Improve system usability, workflow consistency, and data quality across a large multi-entity environment

Support enterprise data cleanup, remediation, and governance efforts related to provider and enrollment data

Strengthen reporting and operational visibility tied to payer enrollment activity and workflow performance

Troubleshoot MD-Staff issues, recommend practical solutions, and support implementation of enhancements

Develop training tools, job aids, and best practices to support consistent use of the platform

Help establish a stronger long-term MD-Staff foundation for broader provider lifecycle operations

Required Qualifications

MD-Staff certification

At least 3 years of deep hands-on MD-Staff experience , including configuration, workflow optimization, system administration, or advanced platform management

Demonstrated experience using MD-Staff to support payer enrollment operations, workflow design, and provider data management

Strong understanding of payer enrollment processes and the operational challenges that impact timeliness, quality, and accuracy

Experience with system cleanup, process redesign, data standardization, and workflow optimization

Ability to assess ambiguous operational problems and translate them into effective system and workflow solutions

Strong analytical, organizational, and problem-solving skills

Ability to work independently in a remote environment while collaborating effectively across multiple teams

Strong written and verbal communication skills, including training and stakeholder support

Preferred Qualifications

5-8+ years of payer enrollment experience in a health system, medical group, CVO, or similarly complex healthcare environment

Experience in a large, multi-hospital health system

Familiarity with credentialing, privileging, provider data governance, and CVO functions

NAMSS certification is a plus

Why This Role
This is a high-impact opportunity for someone who truly understands MD-Staff from a systems perspective and can apply that expertise to one of the most operationally important and complex areas of the provider lifecycle: payer enrollment.

If you know someone who lives and breathes MD-Staff and understands how to make it work for payer enrollment at scale, we’d love to hear from them.

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