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Employee Type:
Regular
Department:
Detention Services
Salary:
$82,049.42 - $114,796.14 Annually / $6,837.45 - $9,566.35 Monthly / $39.45 - $55.19 Hourly
Scheduled Weekly Hours:
40
Overtime Eligibile:
No
Job Posting Date Range:
04/20/2026 - Until Filled
Job Summary:
GENERAL PURPOSE
The Reentry Program Administrator provides Detention Services leadership to implement, coordinate, and oversee Washington’s Apple Health (Medicaid) Section 1115 Reentry Demonstration in carceral settings, ensuring compliant delivery of targeted pre release services up to 90 days prior to release and seamless transition to community care. This includes program launch management, capacity building fund stewardship, cross system operations (e.g., pharmacy/EHR/billing), and performance accountability to HCA policy and CMS Special Terms and Conditions. This position aims to reduce ED utilization, overdose, and recidivism and to improve continuity of care.
Job Description:
ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS
- Lead Cross-System Collaboration: Serve as the primary liaison between the HCA, Managed Care Organizations (MCOs), the Department of Corrections (DOC), county jail, and community health providers.
- Operational Design: Design and execute the operational infrastructure and workflows (e.g., EHR integration, information sharing, and client intake processes) necessary to deliver the mandated Reentry Initiative services.
- Capacity Building: Manage and monitor the allocation of Capacity Building Funds to participating facilities for staff hiring, training, and technology adoption (e.g., EHR/billing systems).
- Launch Management: Oversee the phased launch (by cohort) of the Reentry Initiative at state and/or local facilities, ensuring readiness for billing and service delivery by established go-live dates.
- Operational & pharmacy design: Establish pre‑ and at‑release pharmacy processes, EHR data‑sharing, and intake workflows so carceral health programs can meet Reentry medication and discharge supply requirements (e.g., 30‑day medications/DME), in partnership with Jail Health Services and facility health teams.
- Capacity Building Funds: Plan and monitor capacity‑building awards to facilities (e.g., staffing, training, technology/EHR and billing tool adoption), in coordination with HCA’s funding authorization and milestones (“Intent to Participate,” readiness assessments, interim/final progress reporting).
- Cohort launch management: Drive readiness for facility go‑lives—including ProviderOne/NPI enrollment, workflows, and test claims—ensuring “day‑one” capability for covered pre‑release services.
- Waiver compliance oversight: Ensure program activities adhere to HCA’s Reentry Initiative Policy & Operations Guide and CMS 1115 guidance , including documentation, privacy/security, and reporting standards.
- Billing & reimbursement: Design and troubleshoot Medicaid revenue cycle processes, including Reentry Targeted Case Management (rTCM) and other covered pre‑release services; coordinate with MCOs on benefit configuration, encounter submission, denial management, and pharmacy claims.
- Medicaid enrollment workflows: Standardize and monitor: eligibility screening; timely application support ( 45 days pre‑release) ; suspension/reactivation processes; MCO assignment and warm handoffs to community care.
- Performs other related duties as required.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor’s degree in Public Administration, Public Health, Healthcare Management, Criminal Justice, Social/Behavioral Sciences, or related field; Master’s preferred .
- 3–5 years progressive experience in program management, operations, or policy implementation within government, healthcare, or corrections , including multi‑agency stakeholder management.
- Demonstrated Medicaid/Apple Health expertise (eligibility, enrollment, billing/reimbursement) and familiarity with CMS Section 1115 Reentry guidance (e.g., rTCM, MOUD, 30‑day supplies).
- Track record leading complex launches or statewide initiatives (strategic planning, contracts/QA, pharmacy/EHR process design, and training).
Preferred Qualifications
- Direct experience with justice‑involved populations (adult/youth) or carceral reentry programs; experience supervising regional parole/aftercare services (FFP, CAR).
- Experience with performance‑based contracting, workforce development, and statewide QA in publicly funded programs.
- Clinical coordination background (e.g., partnering with Psychiatric Social Worker teams on continuity of care, Narcan/DME, and MCO transitions). (Licensure not required for this administrative role; collaboration with licensed staff is expected.)
KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES
- Knowledge of Apple Health 1115 Reentry operations: Cohort launch mechanics, ProviderOne/NPI enrollment, covered service set, and capacity‑building requirements
- Knowledge of Cross‑system program management: Pharmacy/EHR integration, pre‑/post‑release workflows, stakeholder convening, and policy interpretation.
- Knowledge of Navigator & case management practices: RTMs, IRPs, motivational/resource navigation, and community linkages; coordination with CCOs and community providers
- Knowledge of Clinical linkage & continuity of care: Behavioral health transition planning, Narcan education, DME coordination, MCO liaison, and release medication protocols.
- Knowledge of data analytics or performance measurement for publicly funded programs.
- Skill in interpersonal relationships using tact, patience and courtesy.
- Skill in planning and organizing work.
- Skill in using personal computer and related software applications.
- Skill in interpreting regulations and procedures.
- Ability to utilize a computer to input, retrieve and manipulate data using software and specialized databases.
- Ability to accurately perform semi-complex mathematical calculations.
BEHAVIORAL STANDARDS
All County employees are responsible for contributing to a safe and positive work environment, actively demonstrating the County values in their daily work and interactions:
- Respect: Appreciating and valuing customers, other County employees and County leadership by showing courtesy, friendliness and fairness. Communicating in a productive and professional manner.
- Accountability: Honoring and delivering on commitments by taking responsibility for personal actions and results; being a responsible steward of public resources and the trust County residents have placed in each of us.
- Integrity: Modelling transparent and ethical behavior and demonstrating it with honest and trustworthy behaviors and actions; leading by example and performing work to the highest standards.
- Innovation: Striving for excellence by actively pursuing opportunities for new and improved methods, procedures or technologies; fostering an environment of engagement and empowerment and embracing continuous improvement.
WORKING CONDITIONS
- The work environment is primarily inside, where the noise and temperature levels are moderate.
- Work is also performed outdoors; and requires occasional travel within the County, exposing the associate to weather extremes, various forms of precipitation and the hazards associated with travel on public roads.
Work involves frequent exposure to inmate incarceration sites, requiring work in indoor environments under varying weather conditions. Duties may include standing, walking, bending, and crawling. The role may involve working at heights, in confined spaces, and around inmate behavioral attitudes.
Total Compensation:
$105,023 - $146,939 Annually
Total compensation is an estimate based upon base compensation, median retirement fund contributions, and current employer-paid health and related benefit contribution rates (including medical, dental, life insurance, long term disability, and leave). The actual total will vary depending upon each employee's enrollment choices.
