Data Mining Consultant II (Client Lead)

Sagility; Westminster (CO); Remote; USD 111,000 - 128,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Payment Integrity Data Mining Consultant II to join its innovative team. In this client-facing role, you will leverage your expertise in auditing and data analysis to identify discrepancies and enhance payment integrity processes. Your insights will directly impact the efficiency of financial transactions and contribute to the overall success of the organization. With a focus on collaboration and communication, you will work alongside various teams to implement new auditing paradigms and drive improvements in operational efficiency. This is an exciting opportunity to make a significant impact in the healthcare domain while enjoying a competitive salary and comprehensive benefits.

Benefits

Medical

Dental

Vision

Life Insurance

Short-Term and Long-Term Disability

Flexible Spending Account

Life Assistance Program

401K with employer contribution

PTO and Sick Time

Tuition Reimbursement

Qualifications

• 5+ years' experience in claim processing and reimbursement.
• Strong knowledge of auditing, payment processing, and fraud prevention.

Responsibilities

• Analyze payment-related data to ensure accuracy and compliance.
• Perform audits on payment data and identify discrepancies.

Skills

Auditing rules development

Business case analysis

Payment processing

Healthcare data synthesis

Communication skills

Interpersonal skills

Data interpretation

Education

High School Diploma

BA/BS in Business Administration

Tools

Microsoft Office

Access

Job description

Sagility combines industry-leading technology and transformation-driven BPM services with decades of healthcare domain expertise to help clients draw closer to their members. The company optimizes the entire member/patient experience through service offerings for clinical, case management, member engagement, provider solutions, payment integrity, claims cost containment, and analytics. Sagility has more than 25,000 employees across 5 countries.

A Payment Integrity Data Mining Consultant II is a professional who is market/client facing and responsible for identifying new audit opportunities, researching new pricing methodologies, and engaging with various work teams to generate systems automation and enhancement capabilities in our state-of-the-art audit workstation. The Data Mining Lead is an IC role which identifies, develops, and implements new concepts that recognize incorrect payments. These concepts are developed based on industry experience, regulatory research, and the ability to analyze medical claim data to discover incorrect payments. This role is responsible for analyzing client data and generating high-quality recoverable claims, assisting in the identification, validation, and documentation of moderate to more complex recovery projects.

Job title: Data Mining Consultant II (Client Lead)

Job Description:

Education: High School Diploma or equivalent required. BA/BS in Business Administration or related field or equivalent preferred but not necessary.

Experience: 5+ years' knowledge of direct claim processing/reimbursement, medical facility contracts, fee schedules, inpatient/outpatient/physician claims required.

Mandatory Skills:

• Experience in ideating & developing new auditing rules and paradigms.
• Experience in business case analysis and help designing BRD.
• Experience in pricing, COB, platform analytics.
• Experience of validation of rules through testing methodologies.
• Experience in auditing, payment processing, or financial fraud prevention is a must.
• Load and synthesize healthcare data from multiple sources.
• Experience working within a health plan, managed care organization, provider operated healthcare environment or third-party administrator.
• Development of end-to-end payment integrity reports like Data Intake, Audit Selections, Findings, Appeals, Medical Record Management, Audit Operations, Recovery Operations, Provider Correspondence, and Forecasting & Invoicing.
• Maintaining working knowledge of CMS transmittals, RAC, and OIG reports is a must.
• Prior claims auditing or consulting experience desirable in either a provider or payer environment.
• Provide recommendations for improving payment integrity processes, fraud prevention measures, and operational efficiency based on audit findings.
• Work with audit teams and establish a process to ensure the concepts being deployed are working as expected with higher findings thus ensuring higher hit rates and findings rates on the concepts deployed.
• Excellent communication skills both oral and written.
• Strong interpersonal skills that will support collaborative teamwork.
• Microsoft Office proficient: Word and Excel; Access highly preferred.
• Ability to interpret and assess complex payment datasets.

Preferred Skills:

• Knowledge of payment systems, financial transactions, and claims processes end-to-end.
• Understanding of payment integrity concepts and fraud detection methodologies.
• Experience in auditing, payment processing, or financial fraud prevention is a plus.
• Experience working within a health plan, managed care organization, provider operated healthcare environment or third-party administrator.

Roles & Responsibilities:

The key responsibility for the role is market/client facing. This role will be reviewing and analyzing payment-related data using data mining techniques to ensure accuracy, compliance, and fraud prevention in financial transactions. Their primary objective is to ideate and perform audits on payment data, identify discrepancies, errors, and fraudulent activities, and provide recommendations for process improvement. This position is responsible for data collection, data analytics, and data reporting for Data Mining programs including but not limited to COB, Duplicate, Contractual, billing errors, overlapping services, etc. This position has to influence leadership to adopt new ideas and products as an experienced industry leader and provide executive-level program updates and manage team escalations and operate as an industry thought leader in Payment Integrity.

Salary Range: $111,000.00 and up dependent on experience and location.

Sagility Offers Competitive Benefits Including:

• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• Life Insurance
• Short-Term and Long-Term Disability
• Flexible Spending Account
• Life Assistance Program
• 401K with employer contribution
• PTO and Sick Time
• Tuition Reimbursement

Join our team, we look forward to talking with you!

An Equal Opportunity Employer/Vet/Disability

Location: Work@Home USA, United States of America