Director, Claim Payment Accuracy at Clover Health

United States

$150k - $195k

At Clover Health, we’re focused on improving the health of our members by leveraging technology and data-driven insights to provide personalized, high-quality care. As a Medicare Advantage plan, we aim to empower our members by helping them navigate the complexities of healthcare and live healthier lives. We are passionate about making healthcare easier, more affordable, and more accessible for everyone. We are looking for an AI-forward Director of Claim Payment Accuracy to architect the strategic roadmap for how Clover identifies, optimizes, and maintains claim payment precision. In this high-impact leadership role, you will lead a culture of "Quality at Scale," serving as the global authority on payment outcomes. You are responsible for the quality oversight of claim payments and the ongoing maintenance of our clinical and reimbursement policies, ensuring that pricing, benefit rules, and contract terms result in flawless adjudication. While you will not manage the configuration team directly, you will act as the strategic bridge between technical logic and clinical intent. You will monitor the output of our systems and vendor partnerships to identify and mitigate leakage, ensuring that policies and contracts are seamlessly and accurately operationalized. By ensuring payment precision, you directly improve the experience for both our members and provider partners by reducing billing friction and ensuring timely, accurate payments. As a Director, Claim Payment Accuracy, you will: Strategic Policy & Oversight: Own the accountability for the development and maintenance of clinical and reimbursement policies, ensuring perfect alignment with CMS regulations. Global Quality Audit Framework: Design and oversee a robust, multi-layered audit program that monitors adjudication system output against clinical policies, pricing, benefit rules, and provider contract terms. Ensure that all findings are fed into a continuous improvement loop to enhance systemic accuracy. AI-Driven Evolution: Lead the implementation of AI initiatives to automate the monitoring of reimbursement policies and contract validation. You will independently utilize advanced LLMs (such as Claude, Gemini, and ChatGPT) to analyze oversight trends and develop data-driven criteria for judgmental sampling and targeted audits. BPaaS Strategic Synergy: Serve as the lead for global payment accuracy oversight regarding our external BPaaS partner. While Senior Managers and Directors in Config and Claims maintain direct operational relationships for their respective areas, you will hold the vendor to world-class standards through global accuracy reviews and data-driven performance monitoring. Cross-Functional Influence: Act as the strategic bridge between Clinical, Claims, A&G, UM, Compliance, Quality, and the Configuration team. Ensure that clinical intent, benefit design, and contractual terms are perfectly synchronized in the final payment adjudication. Success in this role looks like: By the end of your initial 90-day period: You will have established a recurring monthly claims review framework designed for maximum enterprise impact. This process will utilize a hybrid approach: broad-spectrum random sampling to ensure baseline quality, alongside targeted, judgmental audits focused on high-impact enterprise risk across policies, pricing, and contract terms. By 6 months: You will have ensured that all clinical and reimbursement policies are current and that benefit and pricing oversight is fully integrated into our adjudication monitoring. You will be actively leveraging AI tools like Claude, Gemini, and ChatGPT to build out ongoing monitoring and oversight trends that identify high-impact risks to support judgmental sampling and targeted audits. Continued success: You will lead Clover to market-leading "Clean Claim" and "Payment Accuracy" rates. By championing automated monitoring and data-driven research, you will evolve the team into a proactive strategic powerhouse, ensuring Clover's payment ecosystem achieves top-tier precision and technological sophistication. You should get in touch if: You have 8+ years of leadership experience in healthcare claims, payment accuracy, or policy oversight, with a heavy emphasis on Medicare Advantage. You are an expert in HealthEdge HRP and Source, with a deep understanding of how these systems interact to drive adjudication accuracy. You are extremely AI-forward—you are passionate about how emerging technologies and LLMs (Claude, Gemini, ChatGPT) can be applied to drive operational precision in monitoring and research. You have a proven ability to lead through influence, navigating complex cross-functional relationships to drive systemic change. You are a Medicare expert with a proven track record of interpreting and operationalizing complex clinical policies, pricing models, and reimbursement guidelines. You have extensive experience providing oversight for vendor relationships at a strategic level, ensuring partners meet rigorous performance standards. You are a data-focused leader who builds strategy based on sophisticated dashboards and trend analysis. You are a master of cross-functional influence, able to align diverse teams around a unified vision of payment excellence. Preferred qualifications include coding certifications such as CPC, CCS, COC, or CIC. Benefits Overview: Financial Well-Being: Our commitment to attracting and retaining top talent begins with a competitive base salary and equity opportunities. Additionally, we offer a performance-based bonus program, 401k matching, and regular compensation reviews to recognize and reward exceptional contributions. Physical Well-Being: We prioritize the health and well-being of our employees and their families by providing comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage. Your health matters to us, and we invest in ensuring you have access to quality healthcare. Mental Well-Being: We understand the importance of mental health in fostering productivity and maintaining work-life balance. To support this, we offer initiatives such as No-Meeting Fridays, monthly company holidays, access to mental health resources, and a generous flexible time-off policy. Additionally, we embrace a remote-first culture that supports collaboration and flexibility, allowing our team members to thrive from any location. Professional Development: Developing internal talent is a priority for Clover. We offer learning programs, mentorship, professional development funding, and regular performance feedback and reviews. Additional Perks: Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) offering discounted equity opportunities Reimbursement for office setup expenses Monthly cell phone & internet stipend Remote-first culture, enabling collaboration with global teams Paid parental leave for all new parents And much more! About Clover: We are reinventing health insurance by combining the power of data with human empathy to keep our members healthier. We believe the healthcare system is broken, so we've created custom software and analytics to empower our clinical staff to intervene and provide personalized care to the people who need it most. We always put our members first, and our success as a team is measured by the quality of life of the people we serve. Those who work at Clover are passionate and mission-driven individuals with diverse areas of expertise, working together to solve the most complicated problem in the world: healthcare. From Clover’s inception, Diversity & Inclusion have always been key to our success. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and our employees are people with different strengths, experiences, perspectives, opinions, and backgrounds, who share a passion for improving people's lives. Diversity not only includes race and gender identity, but also age, disability status, veteran status, sexual orientation, religion and many other parts of one’s identity. All of our employee’s points of view are key to our success, and inclusion is everyone's responsibility. #LI-REMOTE Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. We are an E-Verify company. Final pay is based on several factors including but not limited to internal equity, market data, and the applicant’s education, work experience, certifications, etc. A reasonable estimate of the base salary range for this role is: $150,000—$195,000 USD