Chasm Partners
Evergreen Nephrology
Director, Payer Partnerships (VBC)

Who We Are

Evergreen Nephrology partners with nephrologists to deliver a reimagined healthcare experience for people living with kidney disease through a value-based, person-centered, holistic, and comprehensive approach to kidney care. We believe patients living with kidney disease deserve the best care. We improve patient outcomes and improve quality of life by delaying disease progression, shifting care to the home, and accelerating kidney transplants.

We help nephrologists focus on the right patients at the right time across the full care spectrum. We do this by providing them with the best-in-class interdisciplinary clinical resources, analytical insight and tools, and services to patients.

We listen to the needs of our patients, our employees, and our physician partners, continually working to change the status quo in which the care system manages patients today.

We contract with health plans and Risk Based Entities (RBEs) to make Evergreen’s clinical services available to their members who are living with kidney disease. Evergreen contracts with Medicare Advantage, commercial and Medicaid health plans. Additionally, Evergreen contracts with other RBEs, often risk-bearing primary care organizations or ACOs, which deliver value-based care to a broader population.

Who You Are

You are passionate about creating a better healthcare journey and experience for people living with kidney disease. You are an empathetic, humble, and highly conscientious leader who inspires, challenges, and elevates team performance. You are a decisive, results driven self-starter who works with a sense of urgency and a bias toward action. You thrive on collaboration and can effectively gather appropriate insights from peers and teams and incorporates relevant and critical inputs and subject matter expertise into plans, strategies, and processes.

Your Role

As the Director, Payer Partnerships you are responsible for leading value based contracting work with health plans and risk-bearing entities (RBEs). You will manage relationships with health plans and RBEs, ensuring they commit to a contracting process and managing internal stakeholders to drive a successful contracting process. Reporting to the Senior Vice President of Payor Growth, you will collaborate with leaders across the organization including Legal, Finance, Clinical and Operations teams, and existing Evergreen physician partners, who are essential stakeholders in the contracting process. You will be responsible for building high-trust relationships with leaders from health plans and RBEs and will serve as the primary day to day contact.

Responsibilities

• Clearly communicate Evergreen’s value proposition to health plans and RBEs utilizing experience and knowledge of value-based contracting

• Drive pipeline development with existing partners, and build new relationships with health plan leaders to accelerate the contracting process

• Build effective relationships with internal stakeholders to develop solutions which allow Evergreen to efficiently deliver its care model, built on existing capabilities, and meet the needs of health plans

• Initially function as a high-level individual contributor, leveraging resources across the Growth team and the entire company, to accomplish goals

• Function with a sense of urgency, and bring that energy to other constituents, including outside Evergreen

• Accountable for meeting deadlines, developing and setting agendas and preparing materials for conversations with stakeholders

Qualifications

• You reviewed the Who You Are section of this job posting and immediately felt the need to read on. That makes you a match for our innovative culture

• You accept that things change quickly in a startup environment and are willing to pivot rapidly on priorities

• Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Healthcare, or relevant field

• 5 years of experience in healthcare, with specific experience in Value-Based Contracting

• Ability to navigate ambiguity in an environment where full scope of information might not be available or might be delayed in coming.

• You are aware of how to leverage the strengths of the organization to bring the best thinking to complex situations.

• You have excellent relationship, communication, change management and influencing skills, with the ability to build trust and respect quickly, both internally and externally.

• You have a strong presence which inspires others and instills confidence in peers, external partners, and team members.

• You are execution-focused, hands-on and like getting into the details of your work.

• You have the demonstrated ability to work as part of a collaborative leadership team.

• You understand and are committed to maintaining the highest level of confidentiality.

• You have demonstrated track record of building highly collaborative relationships inside your organization.

• You demonstrate organizational skills, operational rigor, resilience, and commitment to the business.

Benefits

• You will benefit from Evergreen Nephrology’s exceptional total rewards package, including competitive base pay with bonuses, paid time off starting at four weeks for full-time employees, 12 paid holidays per year, reimbursement for continuing medical education, 401k with match, health, dental, and vision insurance.

• We are proud to offer family-friendly policies that support paid parental leave and flexible work arrangements.

• We commit to a robust training and development program that starts with onboarding and continues throughout your career with Evergreen Nephrology.

• As an inclusive and diverse team, you will collaborate with like-minded healthcare professionals who, like you, understand the importance and value of Evergreen Nephrology’s high-quality, value-based care model.

Evergreen Nephrology is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. We take affirmative action to ensure equal opportunity for all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics.

Evergreen Nephrology will not discriminate or retaliate against applicants who inquire about, disclose, or discuss their compensation or that of other applicants. 

Evergreen Nephrology is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to job applicants with physical or mental disabilities. Applicants with a disability who require a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application or hiring process should email us for assistance. Reasonable accommodations will be determined on a case-by-case basis.