I believe the direction we are headed is this. The evidence and behaviors so far support this, but please chime in if you have another theory. I think if we put our minds together we can figure out the master plan.
After job searching it is clear the industry trend is to have essentially HS grads doing a role called "care coordinator." Then you have the next level called "case manager" or "clinical...." Those are your licensed staff. The jobs at the bachelor level are non-existent and that's where we are headed based on the evidence. I have not seen any CHE type positions period because I probably would have applied. Soooo phase out PHC's, CHE --and non-licensed master HCMSS if they didn't already. Expand HCMSS & HCM role into care management and everyone is responsible for their own mbr education. Many companies require cate managers to live in the state of their members to be knowledgable aboit local resources and many are field based positions. For low interventions maybe a small staff of high school grads. But most of that workk is being handled by the IVR systems even now.