Decision Support Analyst
About The Position
The Decision Support Analyst audits and maintains patient-level financial and clinical data in Eisenhower’s decision support system to ensure high-quality, accurate, and timely information for Finance and Operational business partners. The role develops reports and analyses that support operational, financial, and strategic decision-making across the medical center or health system. The analyst supports planning by developing case-based operating budgets for patient volume and gross revenue. Responsibilities also include service-line profitability, cost-category, and utilization reporting; reviewing cost-accounting results; and updating the system and service-line reporting. The position contributes to business-operations measurement and benchmarking against healthcare-industry practices and internal objectives. This is a full-time, 40-hour-per-week role on the day shift, with an 8-hour employee shift, in the Finance-Corporate department. The stated salary range is $37.19–$56.49.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, or a related field.
- Three years of decision-support or financial-analyst experience.
- Ability to communicate and collaborate with multiple levels of leadership about information or changes affecting use of decision-support deliverables.
- Ability to work with all organizational levels while demonstrating friendliness, tact, courtesy, and professionalism.
- Communicate relevant information honestly and promptly to senior management and team members while protecting confidential information.
- Advanced Excel skills and comfort using other Microsoft Office products and SQL Pro.
- Advanced knowledge of 1206D clinic experience, legislation and potential changes and financial impacts, site neutrality, split billing, CMS regulations, physician fee schedule developments and implementation impacts, physician wRVU analytics and compensation, and provider and facility reimbursement concepts.
- Advanced analytical skills, including the ability to anticipate questions, address information needs, and provide comprehensive analyses.
- Sound critical-thinking skills and the ability to think strategically.
- Knowledge of healthcare organizational structures and familiarity with financial program components.
- Knowledge of general financial-management principles and practices in healthcare, including expense and reimbursement requirements and management.
- Understanding of hospital and professional patient-billing data and healthcare reimbursement concepts.
- Ability to analyze unique, unprecedented, or unstructured problems; may lead projects involving strategy development, process administration, and resource coordination, with a moderate degree of autonomy.
Nice To Haves
- Master's degree in Health Administration, Business Administration, Finance, Analytics, or a related field.
- Experience with professional billing implementation.
- Experience with Strata software.
Responsibilities
- Demonstrate compliance with the Code of Conduct and compliance policies; address compliance questions or concerns and report suspected violations.
- Help maintain critical Strata Cost Accounting functions, including monthly General Ledger, Payroll, and Cost Accounting processes; help ensure financial structures are complete, provider updates are made, and data anomalies are corrected.
- Audit, validate, and monitor decision-support data integrity, volumes, statistics, and dollars, reconciling information to source systems.
- Run and validate service-line profitability, cost, and utilization reporting to support timely and accurate monthly financial statements for senior leadership.
- Prepare revenue and expense projections using patient utilization, payor mix, cost, staff productivity, ancillary service requirements, and other healthcare financial factors for assigned service lines.
- Support complex analyses and projects by developing analytics and leadership reports and summarizing findings.
- Participate in projects to improve the quality, accuracy, and value of decision-support deliverables, including reporting-tool optimization, new financial metrics, streamlined processes, documentation, and financial-data refinement.
- Work with departments to enhance cost accounting through alignment of volume and expense and improved expense allocation.
- Support monthly reviews with managers of cost-center variances and labor productivity.
- Analyze trends in key performance indicators and share findings with the team and leadership.
- Develop improved methods for monitoring and reporting operational and quality performance data.
- Support the annual budget process with volume projections and collaborate with clinical partners on expense projections based on volume and metrics.
- Analyze expense, revenue, and volume trends; recommend adjustments to month-over-month or seasonal spreads and provide supporting data.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
