Financial Analyst – Revenue Cycle (RCM)
Altus Community Healthcare · Houston, TX · 11 mo ago
FinanceFull-time
Responsibilities
- Assess productivity and effectiveness of third party revenue cycle vendors and provide actionable insights on critical deficiencies and areas of improvement.
- Collaborate with CBO and billing teams to develop monthly revenue reporting.
- Model and track impact of payor contracts; model and track impact of charge master updates; create recommendations and provide insight into potential changes.
- Analyze variances to compare actual to expected reimbursement, and benchmarking.
- Help update and maintain various fee schedules and reimbursement models for Medicare and commercial insurance payers.
- Complete financial reporting and analysis related to reimbursement, service line profitability, and patient level reporting.
- Absorb and assist with annual budget and monthly forecasting and closing process.
- Prepare, interpret and analyze financial data, business metrics, and report on KPI.
- Gather operational and workflow requirements to document, implement and monitor workflow processes.
- Able to understand operational business processes and build technology and reports to track key performance indicators, model changes in key variables and analysis that impact on revenue.
- Prepare financial and statistical reports and monitor trends and variances.
- Manage and manipulate data as required to maintain financial models.
- Reviews and understands fluctuations across the organization delivering cost of care and variations in cost of care. Differentiates impact of rate versus utilization variations.
- Analyze data for reasonableness and integrity.
- Create dashboards with RCM, operations, clinical and financial reporting.
- Complete special projects and provide support as requested.
Job Qualifications
- Education: Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Mathematics, Data Science, Statistics – Masters Preferred
- Experience: 3 Years financial planning and analysis, Revenue Cycle, Reimbursement, Cost analysis in a multi-facility healthcare system (hospital, freestanding ER or healthcare related field)
- Experience with relational databases and knowledge of query tools and statistical software is required.
- Experience in hospital/physician billing for in and out-of-network facilities, and strong knowledge of Medicare preferred.
- Ability to manipulate large sets of data in multiple databases is required.
- Ability to utilize Microsoft Excel and Power BI on a routine basis and will need to be an advanced user of these products.
- Have working knowledge of GoRev, Collaborate MD, NexGen, Centricity, Evident, is a plus.
- Able to collaborate across all business functions
- Excellent verbal and written communication
- Problem solving
- Time management
- Detail and Organizational skills
- Strong Analytical skills
- Able to multi-task and meet deliverables timely
- Understanding of Medical terms and acronyms
- Knowledge of State, Medicare, and other external regulatory and accreditation agencies.
- Reasoning skills and ability to articulate logic behind decisions
- Advanced Microsoft Excel, Power BI
- Work under minimum supervision
- Flexible work schedule
Supplemental pay types
- Bonus pay: Discretionary, Up to 25% of Base Pay