Paralegal

Corporate Paralegal

Job Summary:
This position manages subrogation activities for the clients and maintains a comprehensive understanding of the federal and state laws affecting the subrogation activities and group health plans of our clients. Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Subrogation
  1. Investigates and identifies all sources of recovery for our clients/ group health plans.
  2. Manages all aspects of subrogation activities, including but not limited to submission of initial lien, periodic updates and settlement.
  3. Coordinates third party recovery activities with our Claims Department.
  4. Acts as a resource to our clients, brokers and other departments.
  5. Develops training for our claims Department, as necessary.
• Legal Research
  1. Conducts internal and external legal research.
  2. Maintains a working knowledge on regulations, legislation, and state laws requirements.
  3. Communicates with clients about regulatory changes by memo, telephone, and seminars.
  4. Drafts language for plan documents
• Contracts
  1. Reviews for accuracy and maintains current versions
• Litigation Management
  1. Maintains and reviews legal documentation for lawsuits.
  2. Communicates with attorneys and insurance departments.
  3. Reviews recorded phone calls, documentation, and correspondence.
  4. Provides guidance for complaints and track responses.
• HIPAA Privacy Officer
  1. Develops training and provides subsequent training for employees and clients
  2. Acts as an up-to-date and current resource for clients through research and responses to questions.
• Customer Service
  1. Acts as a role model in demonstrating the core values in customer service delivery.
  2. Provides timely and thorough follow up with, internal and external customers.
  3. Appropriately escalates difficult issues up the chain of command.
• Quality Assurance
  1. Serves on committees, work groups, and/or process improvement teams, as assigned, to assist in improving quality/customer satisfaction.
  2. Recognizes and alerts appropriate supervisor of trends within their scope of responsibility that fall outside of quality parameters.
  3. Performs self quality monitoring in order to develop and execute plans to meet established goals.
  4. Provides ongoing feedback to help optimize quality performance.
  5. Collaborates with others and cross-departmentally to improve or streamline procedures.
  6. Develops new or improves current internal processes to improve quality
• This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by this employee. The employee will be required to follow any other instructions and to perform any other duties requested by his/her supervisor.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's or paralegal degree preferred

or

• High school diploma or equivalent, with a minimum of three years of law office, personal injury or litigation experience preferred.
• Working knowledge of current regulations and laws
• Working knowledge of computers and software including but not limited to Microsoft Office products
• Proficient typing and 10-key skills
• Demonstrated organizational skills, problem-solving, analytical skills and detail oriented
• Demonstrated written, oral and telephonic communication skills
• Demonstrated ability to work independently, prioritize workloads multi-task and manage priorities in order to meet deadlines

PAY RATE: $30-$40/hour

START DATE: ASAP

DURATION: through end of 2020

LOCATION: Remote, *8a-5p Mountain time (some flexibility)

HOURS: 40+, as much as you are able to offer in overtime

REASON FOR NEED:
Need to close high volume of case by year end. It will be a very busy 3 months

DAY-TO-DAY ACTIVITIES:
Helping with third party recovery work

PREFERRED
Experience with Healthcare and/or Third Party Administrator clients

#INDIST

The Company is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions on the basis of merit and business needs. The Company will consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religious creed, citizenship, national origin, ancestry, age, sex, sexual orientation, genetic information, physical or mental disability, veteran or marital status, or any other class protected by law. To comply with applicable laws ensuring equal employment opportunities to qualified individuals with a disability, the Company will make reasonable accommodations for the known physical or mental limitations of an otherwise qualified individual with a disability who is an applicant or an employee unless undue hardship to the Company would result.