Healthcare Financial Analytics Specialist

Covenant-Health; Knoxville (TN); On-site; USD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Covenant Health in Knoxville is seeking a Financial Analyst to support connectivity with financial institutions for payment processing and to provide reporting from Strata, StarFin, nThrive, and other analytical tools.

You will reconcile data, assist with audits, and contribute to process improvements across the revenue cycle, working with IT and clinical leadership to improve accuracy and efficiency.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting, or healthcare related field.
• (3) or more years of experience in healthcare business office operations or healthcare information systems management.
• Professional certification may be considered as a substitute for no more than one year of experience.

Responsibilities

• Provides merchant services and maintains associated financial institution relationships for projects by creating location access to credit card processing, using payment data for reporting and forecasting of financials with processor.
• Works with payment gateway Tempus to support hardware issues. Supports credit card machines from ordering, delivery, and coordination with IT, to provider office or facility.
• Maintains user access in Tempus portal, payer clearinghouse portals, as well as SharePoint. Also provides support to users with issues not on a Help Desk ticket.
• Works EasyVista, the IT portal to handle issues; coordinates and facilitates meetings to resolve issues with Tempus devices or software.
• Reports weekly any Tempus issues that are chronic, and the steps taken to resolve the issue(s).
• Maintains Teams List with current staffing in Power Query for productivity reporting. Assists to make pivot, graph, and power query logic changes to the Power Query report, seeking help from IT-Revenue Cycle when needed.
• Maintains National Plan and Provider Enumeration System (“NPPS”) updates related to main points of contact associated with the proper NPIs.
• Utilizes Cactus system for out-of-state Medicaid provider enrollments.
• Provides analytical support for various financial and clinical projects and workgroups through reporting from the Strata decision support system, StarFin, nThrive, and other analytical tools.
• Assists other analysts in reconciling all financial data in various computer systems to its source.
• Contributes to the design and development of effective analytical tools for Corporate and facility leadership.
• Identifies data integrity issues within DSS or source systems and participate in identifying and implementing solutions for these issues.
• Utilizes Visio mapping software, and provides maps as needed for projects.
• Provides accurate and consistent data for billing compliance audits, No Surprise Act audits, as well as Cedar invoice reconciliation.
• Identifies potential areas of improvement and/or cost reduction opportunities within Covenant Health System.
• Works with other department/areas to reduce report redundancy and increase accuracy and efficiency of reporting from multiple systems.
• Maintains professional growth and development through continuing education, seminars, and professional affiliations to keep informed of industry and decision support system trends.

Skills

Tempus

Power Query

Strata

StarFin

nThrive

Visio

Education

Bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting, or healthcare related field

Tools

Tempus

Power Query

Strata

StarFin

nThrive

Visio

Job description

Covenant Health in Knoxville is seeking a Financial Analyst to support connectivity with financial institutions for payment processing and to provide reporting from Strata, StarFin, nThrive, and other analytical tools.

You will reconcile data, assist with audits, and contribute to process improvements across the revenue cycle, working with IT and clinical leadership to improve accuracy and efficiency.