Career Opportunities

At Moffitt Cancer Center, we come face-to-face with cancer every day, but we also see courage. And it inspires us to be the safest and best place for cancer care – to bring greater hope to every patient we serve. It’s why we’ve been continually named One of the Top Places to Work in the Tampa Bay Area. As the only National Cancer Institute-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center based in Florida, Moffitt employs some of the best and brightest minds from around the world. Moffitt is a Top 10 cancer hospital and has been nationally ranked by U.S. News & World Report since 1999. Because working at Moffitt is both a career and a mission: to contribute to the prevention and cure of cancer. Join a dedicated, diverse and inclusive team of over 7,000 to be a part of the Courageous future we envision.

Summary
The Clinical Trial Business Office is looking for a Research Contract Analyst Tampa, FL.

Position Highlights:

• Primary contact in Finance responsible for the performance of compliance, technical, fiscal, and administrative services required to support cancer clinical trials.
• Negotiates and optimizes budgets, contracts and contract amendments for active studies to maximize financial objectives for revenue, profit and cash flow.
• Assist in the improvement of research billing procedures.

Ideal Candidate:

• Engaged, organized individual with strong critical thinking skills who has the ability to work efficiently under pressure. Candidate should be adaptable to change as clinical research is a constantly evolving industry.
• Highly motivated, shows initiative, and able to work independently as well as in a team.

Responsibilities:

• Interpreting the financial requirements and billable nature of items and services on clinical trial protocols by reviewing coverage analysis, and negotiating budgets with sponsors.
• Negotiate individual budgets with sponsors, able to challenge claims made by sponsors.
• Coordinates the budget process in collaboration with other staff to ensure timely execution of compliant and effective budgets as part of the clinical trial agreements with sponsors.
• Responsible for entering event schedules, budgets, billing plans, and other financial information into Clinical Trial Management System
• Assist in the maintenance of proper storage of clinical trial contracts in Moffitt’s contract management system. Will also assist in the maintenance of the charge master for research billing.

Credentials and Qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree

Minimum two (2) years’ experience in clinical setting, research, medical auditing, case management healthcare insurance and/or accounting experience.

At Moffitt Cancer Center, we come face-to-face with cancer every day, but we also see courage. And it inspires us to be the safest and best place for cancer care – to bring greater hope to every patient we serve. It’s why we’ve been continually named One of the Top Places to Work in the Tampa Bay Area. As the only National Cancer Institute-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center based in Florida, Moffitt employs some of the best and brightest minds from around the world. Moffitt is a Top 10 cancer hospital and has been nationally ranked by U.S. News & World Report since 1999. Because working at Moffitt is both a career and a mission: to contribute to the prevention and cure of cancer. Join a dedicated, diverse and inclusive team of over 7,000 to be a part of the Courageous future we envision.

Summary

The Clinical Trial Business Office at Moffitt Cancer Center, located in Tampa, FL is recruiting for a Research Medicare Coverage Analyst.

This position has the potential to be 100% remote.

The RMCA will be responsible for performing a comprehensive Medicare Coverage Analysis in accordance with Medicare’s Clinical Trial Policy (NCD 310.1) as well as medical association guidelines, national and local coverage determinations, nationally recognized peer-reviewed publications and professional practice guidelines on clinical research protocols with billable services.

The RMCA will ensure accurate determinations of research patient billing compliance to mitigate institutional risk.

• The incumbent will maintain comprehensive documentation of all Medicare Coverage.
• Analysis grids and systems for tracking in the institutional Clinical Trials Management System, OnCore.
• Be responsible for sign off on all Medicare Coverage Analysis grids by assisting research faculty with the interpretation of related guidance and their effect on research billing processes, as needed.
• Exemplifies Moffitt Cancer Center’s mission, vision and values and acts in accordance with the internal policies and procedures. Maintains, utilizes and updates data collection in OnCore for use in gathering and compiling information, preparing reports and analyses, as required.

The ideal candidate will establish and maintain cooperative and mutually supportive working relationships with Moffitt Cancer Center faculty, administrators, research team members, and sponsoring agencies and companies.

The ideal candidate will also be flexible and prioritize within an ever-changing, service-oriented environment and appropriately complete individual assignments while also working effectively within a team and on team projects.

Key Responsibilities:
• Function as the product manager for the OnCore application.
• Orchestrate and drive the successful and timely completion of tasks to achieve organizational goals, including identification and mitigation of risks and issues which may impact project.
• Communicate effectively to all stakeholders in a timely and consistent manner.
• Build strong relationships with subject matter experts and team members.
• Facilitate, coordinate, and arbitrate cross-functional discussions and decisions with subject matter experts within key functional areas.
• Lead the development of the project schedule, metrics, detailed work plans, and specific tasks.
• Review and monitor project work to ensure forward progress and tasks are completed on time and within budget.
• Ability to understand the organization’s strategic priorities and adapt project timelines and tasks accordingly.
• Ability to escalate risks or issues effectively within the organization, if needed.
• Ability to identify and manage scope changes during the course of a project.
• Provide support to OnCore end users.
• Coordinate the evaluation of upgrades on the test environment and provide feedback to Forte product support regarding the new functionality.
• Articulate to functional area experts how the upgrades to OnCore may affect current policies and procedures.
• Serve as the organizational representative to Forte and the OnCore Community.
• Implement metrics to track OnCore adoption and present metrics to organizational leadership.
• Identify requirements and develop reports to meet organizational reporting needs.
• Document business needs and prioritize product enhancements and requirements to Forte product support.
• Participate in data migration-related activities (if in scope).

As a key member of the CTMS team at Fred Hutch, University of Washington and the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance, this position works extensively with coverage analysis specialists, budget specialists, clinical research coordinators, principal investigators, to assist with building of calendars in accordance with the protocol document and budgets in the OnCore Clinical Trials Management System (CTMS).

Responsibilities
Build and configure electronic study calendars for clinical trial data capture in accordance with the terms of the protocol
Stay up to date on all new and evolving institutional changes as they relate to policy, pricing, budgeting, etc. for clinical trial data captured in OnCore
Develop prioritization schema to aid in workload management for calendar and budget build tasks
Perform system testing as directed and quality control of application functionality during application upgrades
Assist the help desk to support current customers who encounter problems or have questions
Collaborate with direct supervisor, coverage analysis team, budget team, clinical research team, project managers, health system representatives, consultants and vendors to ensure overall completion of goals, schedules, and deadline
Other duties as assigned

The CTMS Program Office is a tri-institutional office housed within the Fred Hutch Research Administration department providing implementation and operational support services for the OnCore Clinical Trial Management System (CTMS) that is jointly managed by the Fred Hutch, the University of Washington (UW) and the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance (SCCA.) The CTMS Assistant Project Director position is a senior leadership role within the CTMS Implementation team. The role will be accountable to manage activities and outcomes related to the CTMS implementation and delivery. The role will require expert-level project management skills, analytical and information synthesis skills, team and stakeholder management skills.