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Essen Health Care

Multi-site primary and specialty care network

General Manager Integrated Care Management

Full-TimeDeadline 10/8/27
$90k - $120k+ Performance bonus
Senior
Bachelor's, Master's, MBA
Bronx, NY, USA
In Person
Medical, Clinical & Veterinary

About the job

Requirements
  • A bachelor's degree in healthcare administration, business administration, public health, nursing, social work, operations management, or a related field is required.
  • A minimum of 5–7 years of experience in healthcare operations, population health, care management, remote patient monitoring, value-based care, or clinical operations is required.
  • A minimum of 2–3 years of supervisory or management experience is required.
  • Proficiency in electronic medical record systems is required; eClinicalWorks is preferred.
  • Experience with care management platforms such as Foothold/FCM, BAHN, or equivalent is required.
  • Proficiency with productivity dashboards and performance tracking tools is required.
  • Strong working knowledge of CMS care management program requirements and New York State Medicaid Health Home standards is required.
Responsibilities
  • Lead day-to-day operations of the integrated care model across all care management programs.
  • Ensure supervisors execute consistently across assigned provider pods and patient panels.
  • Ensure coordinator worklists are prioritized by clinical risk and unmet need rather than ease of completion.
  • Translate organizational goals into clear, measurable operational targets for supervisors and coordinators.
  • Build scalable workflows that support growth in enrollment, billing capture, patient engagement, and quality performance.
  • Identify operational risks, workflow gaps, and execution barriers that may affect patient care, compliance, or revenue.
  • Directly oversee Care Management and RPM Supervisors responsible for provider pods and coordinator teams.
  • Set expectations for supervisor performance, including panel health, enrollment growth, productivity management, documentation quality, provider responsiveness, escalation closure, and staff accountability.
  • Review supervisor dashboards and pod-level performance trends on a daily, weekly, and monthly basis.
  • Coach supervisors on workload management, real-time intervention, staff performance, escalation handling, and provider communication.
  • Conduct regular performance reviews and implement corrective action plans when operational targets are not met.
  • Develop supervisors into operational leaders capable of managing larger panels and more complex workflows.
  • Own performance across assigned patient panels, provider pods, and care management programs.
  • Drive enrollment growth among eligible patients and ensure enrollment converts to sustained patient engagement.
  • Monitor panel penetration rates, outreach outcomes, consent capture, activation rates, and ongoing program participation.
  • Partner with providers and clinical leadership to increase adoption of care management programs.
  • Use data to identify underperforming pods, missed enrollment opportunities, and disengaged patients.
  • Ensure Integrated Care Coordinators meet program-specific productivity, documentation, and time threshold requirements.
  • Monitor completion rates, monthly activity capture, billing readiness, and documentation quality across all programs.
  • Ensure workflows comply with CMS requirements, New York State Medicaid and Health Home standards, payer rules, internal documentation standards, and audit readiness expectations.
  • Partner with Revenue Cycle, Compliance, Analytics, and Product teams to improve billing capture and reduce preventable denials.
  • Identify margin pressure resulting from low productivity, missed billing opportunities, documentation deficiencies, or inefficient staffing models.
  • Establish accountability systems that ensure performance gaps are addressed promptly and consistently.
  • Ensure supervisors serve as effective operational liaisons to assigned providers.
  • Monitor provider satisfaction, responsiveness, workflow escalations, and unresolved operational issues.
  • Standardize communication among supervisors, providers, coordinators, and centralized support teams.
  • Resolve escalated provider concerns related to care management workflows, RPM, referrals, DME, lab and imaging follow-up, patient outreach, and panel support.
  • Maintain a provider-facing operating model that reduces confusion, improves response time, and strengthens accountability.
  • Partner with centralized Lab/DI, Referral, DME, RPM, Scheduling, Clinical, Revenue Cycle, Product, Analytics, and Compliance teams.
  • Escalate systemic barriers affecting pod performance, patient care, billing readiness, or provider experience.
  • Support cross-departmental workflow redesign to improve turnaround time and reduce duplication.
  • Ensure operational handoffs are clearly defined among provider pods, supervisors, coordinators, and centralized teams.
  • Evaluate staffing ratios, supervisor span of control, coordinator productivity, and panel volume.
  • Recommend staffing models that support enrollment growth, geographic expansion, and multi-program execution without compromising continuity of the coordinator-patient relationship.
  • Support hiring, onboarding, training, and development of supervisors and Integrated Care Coordinators.
  • Identify automation opportunities that reduce manual work, improve productivity, and increase billing capture.
  • Use operational dashboards to monitor pod performance, supervisor effectiveness, staff productivity, enrollment trends, billing readiness, and quality outcomes.
  • Prepare clear performance summaries for senior leadership.
  • Track enrollment volume, active caseload, outreach completion, consent capture, monthly activity completion, RPM adherence, billing eligibility, documentation quality, provider satisfaction, and staff productivity.
  • Provide data-driven recommendations to improve margin, scale, compliance, and operational execution.
Desired Qualifications
  • A master's degree (MHA, MBA, MPH, or MSW) is preferred.
  • Experience managing supervisors, team leads, or multi-team operational structures is strongly preferred.
  • New York State Health Home experience is strongly preferred, including work within a Care Management Agency and working knowledge of core services, the Billing Support Questionnaire and rate code structure, MAPP/HHTS, DOH-5055 consent requirements, the CES Tool, diligent search protocol, and Medicaid recertification workflows.
  • A social work background is strongly preferred, including LMSW or LCSW licensure or substantive experience in case management, behavioral health, or community-based services; direct caseload experience is valued.
  • Experience with CMS care management programs, including CCM, APCM, PIN, CHI, BHI, and RPM, is strongly preferred.
  • Experience in provider-facing operations, panel management, home-based care, or multi-site healthcare operations is preferred.
  • eClinicalWorks experience is preferred.

About the company

Esssen Health Care is a multi-site, integrated healthcare network in New York that delivers primary, urgent, and specialty care, as well as house calls, care management, and nursing home staffing. It serves underserved communities and uses a population health model with value-based payments, including an Accountable Care Organization (ACO). Its EssenMED House Calls program brings primary care and selected specialties directly to patients’ homes, making care more accessible. The network operates across the Bronx, Brooklyn, and Queens with over 350 providers and ties in remote patient monitoring and employer health services. A key differentiator is its home-based care delivery and its program to hire and train international medical graduates to enter the U.S. healthcare system. Its goal is to improve access to high-quality care for Medicaid populations and other underserved patients while controlling costs through coordinated, preventive care and chronic disease management.

Company Size

501-1,000

Company Stage

N/A

Total Funding

N/A

Headquarters

New York City, New York

Founded

1999

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What believers are saying

  • Essen opened Bronx cardiovascular imaging centers in 2025, expanding high-acuity local capture.
  • CMS selected Essen for the GUIDE dementia model in January 2025.
  • Partnerships with OwnaHealth, ReferWell, and RADIN Health improve scheduling, chronic care, and imaging workflow.

What critics are saying

  • A March 2023 breach triggered a $4 million settlement, affecting about 907,782 patients.
  • That breach exposes Essen to HIPAA scrutiny, payer distrust, and referral leakage through 2026.
  • If another security failure hits, Essen's trust-based Medicaid model collapses fast.

What makes Essen Health Care unique

  • Essen combines primary care, urgent care, house calls, and nursing-home staffing across New York City.
  • Its Bronx footprint serves underserved Medicaid patients with 450-plus providers and integrated care.
  • The house-calls program and value-based ACO model create sticky, home-based patient relationships.

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