Physician Agreements & Contracts Administrator
City of Hope
Duarte, CA
Job posting number: #7287462 (Ref:10027709)
Posted: October 18, 2024
Salary / Pay Rate: $45.22 - $72.36 / hour
Application Deadline: Open Until Filled
Job Description
Join the transformative team at City of Hope , where we're changing lives and making a real difference in the fight against cancer, diabetes, and other life-threatening illnesses. City of Hope’s growing national system includes its Los Angeles campus, a network of clinical care locations across Southern California, a new cancer center in Orange County, California, and treatment facilities in Atlanta, Chicago and Phoenix. Our dedicated and compassionate employees are driven by a common mission: To deliver the cures of tomorrow to the people who need them today.
This administrator supports the Physician Enterprise and City of Hope Medical Foundation by managing contracted professional staff agreements, including physicians, APPs, consultants, and locum tenens. Responsibilities include composing, reviewing, negotiating, and standardizing contracts, as well as overseeing the consultant budget to ensure efficiency and fiscal responsibility. The role provides operational and administrative support, involving contract development, cost negotiation, budget finalization, revenue tracking, and consultant assessments. The position demands creativity, teamwork, and professionalism to handle complex, confidential work and maintain sound fiscal and administrative systems.
As a successful candidate, you will:
- Manage and maintain the budget for consultants across the organization and Medical Group, monitoring
- expenses, tracking spending, and ensuring adherence to budgetary constraints.
- Identify and resolve issues related to contract review, negotiation, and administration.
- Provide routine status updates to Foundation leadership regarding budget and contract negotiations.
- Coordinate with relevant groups to ensure consulting agreements are efficiently and timely executed,
- documented, and compliant.
- Analyze financial data to identify cost-saving opportunities and optimize resource allocation.
- Conduct cost/benefit analyses with clinical departments, legal, and finance to ensure contracts are up
- to date and beneficial to City of Hope.
- Assess staffing gaps and recommend solutions to address workload demands.
- Draft and negotiate consultant contracts, collaborating with legal to ensure compliance and risk
- mitigation.
- Manage contract renewals, amendments, and terminations.
- Serve as the primary contact for consultants, fostering positive relationships and ensuring clear
- communication with stakeholders.
- Implement best practices for contract administration, budget tracking, and consultant evaluation,
- leading process optimization initiatives.
- Perform other administrative duties supporting the Physician Enterprise and COH Medical Foundation.
- Resolve routine and complex inquiries, ensuring in-depth knowledge of policies and procedures.
- Organize workflow, initiate follow-ups, and maintain department administrative training manuals.
- Oversee and assign tasks to administrative support staff.
Your qualifications should include:
Education:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Business Management, Business/ Health Administration or Organizational Management
Experience:
- 5 or more years of progressively responsible experience in business administration, clinical research, or healthcare environment
City of Hope is an equal opportunity employer. To learn more about our commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion, please click here.
Salary / Pay Rate Information:
Pay Rate: $45.22 - $72.36 / hour
The estimated pay scale represents the typical [salary/hourly] range City of Hope reasonably expects to pay for this position, with offers determined based on several factors which may include, but not be limited to, the candidate’s experience, expertise, skills, education, job scope, training, internal equity, geography/market, etc. This pay scale is subject to change from time to time.
City of Hope is a community of people characterized by our diversity of thought, background and approach, but tied together by our commitment to care for and cure those with cancer and other life-threatening diseases. The innovation that our diversity produces in the areas of research, treatment, philanthropy and education has made us national leaders in this fight. Our unique and diverse workforce provides us the ability to understand our patients' needs, deliver compassionate care and continue the quest for a cure for life-threatening diseases. At City of Hope, diversity and inclusion is a core value at the heart of our mission. We strive to create an inclusive workplace environment that engages all of our employees and provides them with opportunities to develop and grow, both personally and professionally. Each day brings an opportunity to strengthen our work, leverage our different perspectives and improve our patients’ experiences by learning from others. Diversity and inclusion is about much more than policies and campaigns. It is an integral part of who we are as an institution, how we operate and how we see our future.
