Associate Director, Fraud, Waste, Abuse

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About the Role
- To lead, coach, supervise and adjudicate work flow and follow up on medical audit cases and the case management team/Top up GL/Additional doctor request and GL appeals.
- Review and coordinate cases that require the involvement and escalation to providers and internal stakeholders.
- To provide medical advisory within and beyond AHS
- To support operations of the AHS
- To assist in Fraud, Waste and Abuse initiatives.
- To actively participate in all initiatives related to cost savings & containment exercise
- To align claims practices across various units in AIA
- Medical Training for AIA Health Services and stakeholders
- Active lead in regulator collaborations
- MOH/MTA/LIAM
- To collaborate with all AIA units in digitalization related to medical claims

Roles & responsibilities:
1. Fraud, Waste & Abuse
- Oversee and improve upon current methodology for FWA detection, resolution and prevention while driving the TDA program of work - Mapping of codes /Guides translation into AI engines and etc
- Managing audits within and beyond AIA - Micare& doctors trendings under FWA
- In charge of analysis on emerging patterns and trends in medical Fraud, Waste and Abuse (FWA) practices
- Trends doctor’s charges and reviews charging behaviour to establish over utilization - which is supplementary to the provider conversation and trending reports.
- Collation of reasonable and customary charges within the industry to ensure that charges are within benchmark.
- Facilitate and implement controls on FWA prevention and minimization of billing wastages.
- Ensuring recoveries are given within the agreed TAT
- Close collaboration with the Field investigators to ensure Fraud outcomes are met
- Active conversation with providers to address Fraud and Waste elements while ensuring strong outcomes are met with the providers

2. Medical advisory lead within and beyond AHS
- Overseeing medical advisories from AHS and all stakeholders are replied within TAT
- To review appeals on claims decline with concrete and robust medical literature to support the decision
- Within AHS and all complaints related to OFS and BNM
- Provide medical insights to various divisions within AIA such as Health Claims Management, Network Management and Healthcare Strategy, Corporate Solutions, and Customer Experience.

3.Strengthening cost containment measures directly related to Operations.
- Supplementary GL issuance team, LOS monitoring
- To ensure SLA and TAT is adhered
- Attrition and people management
- Reporting on Cost savings

4. Case Management and complex Case reviews
- Case Management -adhering to the PHFSA schedule& buidning of R&C guides
- Attrition and people management
- Reporting on Cost savings
- Audits related to Hospital bills and provider Ops issues

5.Strengthening clinical and technical guidelines and assessment: Alignment of cashless and ‘pay and file’ & investigation claim practices across AIA and strengthening of claims decisions & clinical guidelines.
- Building and improving guidelines that will enable better decision making and Cost savings outcomes meeting stipulated goals set for the year.

6. Medical training lead
- To understand the training needs of AHS and ensure adequate training is provided to on both Cashless and reimbursement claims across Ib & Eb portfolios, ensure that they are competent to deliver the services in accordance with the standards set.
- Ensuring all medical trainings are conducted with solid outcomes within and beyond AHS
- Assisting trainers beyond AHS- customer care, contact center and CSD to strengthen their medical knowledge

7. Collaborations - Within and beyond AIA
- Ensuring Ops is abreast with latest medical advancements - Trainings and Guidelines
- Agency level -Training & complaints Management
- Frontliners -Branch/Contact Centre & Customer coro
- Training on importanat Claims materials
- Product and Marketing - Selection of GIO criterias /feedback on product design
- Providers
- Active discussion with doctors and hosp management in the FWA space
- Regulator -Supporting MTA, JTC, LIAM, PIAM, Shariah Committee including presentation, meeting, and surveys.

8.Investigation for Minor Claims
- Overseeing the investigation process under minor Claims
- Close collaboration with New Business unit
- Under writing for Investigation outcome management
- Enhancing and improving processes in place for better customer experience

9. Repatriation & evacuation lead
- Managing Advisories related to benefits an