Accounts Receivable Operations Analyst

SSM Health; United States; Remote; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

SSM Health is seeking an Accounts Receivable Operations Analyst for a remote role in the United States. You will analyze AR, denial, and claims data, develop dashboards, identify trends, and provide actionable insights to HB and PB operations.

You’ll partner with leaders to prioritize opportunities, resolve payer issues, and improve financial outcomes. Three years of experience and a Bachelor’s degree are required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Three years’ experience required.

Responsibilities

• Collaborates with decision makers to identify and solve business problems; interprets data, identifies trends, and creates data visualizations.
• Develops analytic/reporting specifications through project teams.
• Utilizes databases and query tools to gather data; ensures requirements meet reporting specifications.
• Ensures data integrity and provides insights into daily and overall operations.
• Works with technical/build teams to establish dashboards and reporting within applications.
• Develops and maintains dashboards with weekly, monthly, and quarterly reporting for regions and ministries.
• Partners with customers and cross-functional teams to discover needs and offer solutions.
• Assists with evaluation and development of reporting tools to analyze performance indicators.
• Supports operational reporting needs and process improvement initiatives with data insights.

Skills

Data analysis

Dashboard development

Data visualization

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Job description

It’s more than a career, it’s a calling.

MO-REMOTE

Worker Type:

Regular

Job Highlights:

Are you a healthcare revenue cycle professional who enjoys using data to drive results?

Job Summary:

Join SSM Health as an Accounts Receivable Operations Analyst and help reduce AR aging, prevent denials, accelerate cash collections, and improve revenue cycle performance.

In this remote role, you’ll analyze AR, denial, and claims data, develop dashboards, identify trends, and provide actionable insights that support Hospital Billing (HB) and Professional Billing (PB) operations. You’ll partner with leaders to prioritize opportunities, resolve payer issues, and improve financial outcomes.

Make a measurable impact on revenue cycle performance in a mission-driven healthcare system.

Job Responsibilities and Requirements:

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Collaborates with key decision makers to identify and solve a variety of business or operational problems and objectives. Interprets data, identifies trends, utilizes benchmark data, creates data visualization and applies data to business operations.
• Develops specifications of analytic and reporting needs through participation in project teams or meetings with internal/external customers for projects and ad hoc requests.
• Utilizes a variety of databases and query tools to gather data. Ensures all requirements are well-defined from the customer to meet reporting and analysis specifications.
• Ensures data integrity, data quality and assists leaders by providing insights into the daily operations and overall business operations.
• Works closely with technical and build team members to establish reporting and dashboards within applications that will support operations.
• Develops and maintains dashboards which include weekly, monthly, and quarterly reporting to regions and ministries.
• Partners with customers, peers and cross functional teams to discover needs; and proactively offers options and solutions.
• Assists with the evaluation, analysis, and development of reporting and analytical tools to analyze department and division performance indicators; presents information to customers in clear, concise, and useful formats.
• Leverages skilled analytic techniques necessary to meet needs of business users. Supports both new and ongoing operational reporting needs, business process redesign, process improvement initiatives by providing data insights.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

EDUCATION

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education and experience

EXPERIENCE

• Three years’ experience

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS

• Frequent lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing 0-25 lbs.
• Frequent sitting, standing, walking, reaching and repetitive foot/leg and hand/arm movements.
• Frequent use of vision and depth perception for distances near (20 inches or less) and far (20 feet or more) and to identify and distinguish colors.
• Frequent use of hearing and speech to share information through oral communication. Ability to hear alarms, malfunctioning machinery, etc.
• Frequent keyboard use/data entry.
• Occasional bending, stooping, kneeling, squatting, twisting and gripping.
• Occasional lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing 25-50 lbs.
• Rare climbing.

REQUIRED PROFESSIONAL LICENSE AND/OR CERTIFICATIONS

• None

Department:

8700000033 RCM Leadership

Work Shift:

Day Shift (United States of America)

Scheduled Weekly Hours:

40

SSM Health is an Equal Opportunity Employer. SSM Health provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.