Test Cost Specialist

ARUP Laboratories Career • Salt Lake City, UT

21h • Onsite

About The Position

The Test Cost Specialist role is responsible for collecting, analyzing, and interpreting laboratory test cost data. This position communicates updated cost information to Revenue Management, performs quality assurance checks to ensure data consistency between department databases, and assists with indirect cost analysis and other assigned projects. ARUP Laboratories, a national clinical and anatomic pathology reference laboratory and an enterprise of the University of Utah, fosters a work environment of diversity, professional growth, and continuous development. We are committed to the vital service we provide to over one million patients monthly, striving for excellence and embracing advancements in medicine. We recognize the patient behind every specimen and seek individuals who embody ARUP's culture of accountability, integrity, service, and excellence.

Requirements

• Stooping: Bending body downward and forward by bending spine at the waist.
• Reaching: Extending hand(s) and arm(s) in any direction.
• Mobility: The person in this position needs to occasionally move between work sites and inside the office to access file cabinets, office machinery, etc.
• Communicate: Frequently communicate with others.
• PPE: Biohazard laboratory environment that requires use of personal protective equipment in accordance with CDC and OSHA regulations and company policies.
• ARUP Policies and Procedures: To conduct self in compliance with all ARUP Policies and Procedures.
• Sedentary Work: Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally and/or negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects, including the human body.
• Fine Motor Control: Picking, pinching, typing or otherwise working, primarily with fingers rather than with the whole hand as in handling.
• Vision: Having close, far, and peripheral visual acuity to perform a variety of tasks such as make general observations of depth and distance.
• Color Vision: Perception of and ability to distinguish colors.

Responsibilities

• Assist with maintaining current direct costs and cost update schedules for all ARUP tests.
• Assist with determining costs for new tests, as part of regularly scheduled hotline process, including coordination with R&D personnel, laboratory supervisors and Revenue Management.
• Communicate updated cost information to Revenue Management.
• Assist with indirect cost analysis.
• Assist with maintaining cost units in the Enterprise Resource Planning system.
• Perform quality assurance checks between cost and pricing databases and resolve discrepancies.
• Assist with scheduled follow up of costs for new tests.
• Assist with determining annual changes to pay rates by laboratory section and update in cost database.
• Other duties as assigned.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed