Contracting and Compliance Manager

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## Position Summary

The Anesthesia Quality Institute (AQI) was established by the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) in 2008 to facilitate practice‑based quality management through education and quality data feedback. The AQI is a Patient Safety Organization (PSO) and home to NACOR, the largest anesthesia registry in the world. NACOR is also a Qualified Registry (QR) and Qualified Clinical Data Registry (QCDR).

The **Contracting and Compliance Manager** is responsible for leading compliance, contract management, and program oversight for AQI registries and federal quality programs, including Qualified Clinical Data Registry (QCDR), Quality Registry (QR), and Patient Safety Organization (PSO) activities.

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## Compliance

This role ensures AQI’s adherence to applicable laws, regulations, and program guidelines relating to HIPAA, CMS QCDR/QR designation for its NACOR registry, and AQI’s designation as a PSO. This includes coordinating annual filings, ensuring AQI has required policies in place, establishing procedures to reduce risk, and performing and coordinating audits to ensure compliance.

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## Contracting

Working with Business Development, this role manages the full lifecycle of AQI contracts and agreements with participating practices, health systems, and researchers, working closely with legal counsel, business development, finance, and AQI leadership to efficiently process legal agreements through negotiation and approval. These primarily include business agreements with customers that include products, prices, discounts, durations, and other business‑related terms, and secondarily, data use requests from researchers and other AQI legal agreements.

This role owns the operational processes and service level agreements for both contracting and compliance, using technology to create efficiencies, improve productivity, and minimize processing time and effort, while providing high‑quality service and clear communication to prospective and current registry participants.

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## Primary Position Responsibilities

– **Contract negotiation** — Work directly with potential and current participants and collaborate with legal counsel to efficiently track, evaluate, negotiate, and resolve non‑standard contractual requests while maintaining compliance and risk controls.
– **Contracting and revenue reporting** — Regularly report on contracting status, progress, and risks, as well as registry participation trends. In coordination with Business Development, manage and report on revenue pipeline and perform revenue forecasts.
– **Technology‑enabled operations** — Leverage technology to support registry operational processes such as onboarding, annual CMS registration, billing, and reconciliation processes.
– **Participant outreach** — In coordination with Business Development, perform outreach to current and prospective participants to support execution of agreements that drive participation and revenue. Communicate with stakeholders to ensure timely resolution of participant inquiries and requests related to contracts, pricing, program participation, AQI registry fees, and payments.
– **Registration coordination** — Coordinate the registration processes for new NACOR and registry participants, ensuring contractual readiness, compliance alignment, and clear customer guidance throughout the intake process.
– **SOP development** — Establish standard operating procedures (SOPs) for the contracting and onboarding processes, report on adherence, and apply continuous improvement principles.
– **Compliance risk monitoring** — Identify, assess, and monitor compliance risks and vulnerabilities related to contracts, registry operations, and regulatory obligations; develop and implement mitigation strategies in collaboration with legal counsel.
– **Contract inventory management** — Maintain an accurate and complete inventory of all AQI contracts and agreements, including related exhibits and consents.
– **Compliance framework maintenance** — Engage with legal counsel to implement, document, and maintain compliance frameworks, systems, and processes.
– **HIPAA oversight** — As designated HIPAA Privacy Officer, maintain and oversee HIPAA‑related policies, procedures, controls, and documentation.
– **PSO liaison** — Serve as AQI’s Authorized Official and primary liaison to AHRQ to support and maintain AQI’s PSO designation.
– **CMS application management** — Coordinate planning, documentation, and submission of annual applications to CMS for QCDR and QR status.
– **ASA values alignment** — Perform work in alignment with ASA core values: Dedication, Collaboration, Commitment to Excellence, Continuous Improvement.

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## Position Qualifications

– Bachelor’s degree in a related field is highly desired.
– Minimum 5 years of related work experience required. Previous contract administration experience and understanding of HIPAA regulations are required.
– Familiarity with Patient Safety Organizations and patient safety work product (PSWP) preferred; experience with AHRQ’s common formats preferred.
– Healthcare or registry experience preferred.
– Experience working with CRM systems required; Microsoft Dynamics 365 or Altai AMS preferred.
– Experience working with Jira and Confluence preferred.
– Demonstrated passion for leveraging technology to streamline and automate repetitive tasks.
– Demonstrates accuracy, thoroughness, and quality control.
– Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously and work independently with minimal oversight.
– Ability to develop and maintain positive working relationships with co‑workers, volunteer leaders, vendors, and industry contacts; tact, diplomacy, and good judgment required.
– Ability to collaborate cross‑functionally with various ASA departments.

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## ASA Benefits

As part of the health care community, we offer a full slate of health, financial, and wellness benefits to support personal and family needs, including quality medical, dental, and vision insurance at a reasonable cost, 401(k) match, a free fitness center, breastmilk shipping, CALM subscription, volunteer committees, employee resource groups, and much more.

More detailed benefits information can be found at:
[https://www.asahq.org/about-asa/work-at-asa/benefits]

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## ASA Compensation Philosophy

ASA conducts market analysis of its positions to ensure compensation is comparable with jobs of the same level, skills, and abilities. ASA also believes in the importance of pay equity and considers internal equity as part of any final offer. ASA strives to be transparent with pay practices both internally and externally.

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## Position Compensation

This position is an exempt/salaried position.
**Target hiring pay range:** $105,000–$130,000 annually.
This position is not eligible for a yearly bonus/incentive.

Compensation decisions consider a wide range of factors, including relevant experience, skills, certifications, business needs, and organizational policies.

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## EEOC

ASA is an Equal Opportunity Employer of Minorities, Females, Individuals with Disabilities, and Veterans. Employment decisions are made without regard to disability, race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, genetic information, military or veteran status, sexual orientation, marital status, or any other protected characteristic.

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## Environment

While performing the duties of this job, the employee regularly works in an office environment with light noise. Work may be frequently interrupted. The employee will spend most of the workday sitting, computing, and talking/hearing. May require lifting boxes in the 10–25 lb. range, requiring the ability to bend at the waist and knee.

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## Travel Required

Yes. Under 10% air travel required.

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## Equal Opportunity Employer

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