Privacy Analyst I

r1rcm; United States; On-site; USD 54,000 - 79,000; Full time

Job summary

R1 RCM Inc. is seeking a Privacy Analyst to join our privacy team and help safeguard PHI while ensuring compliance with federal and state privacy requirements. The role involves incident handling, policy enforcement, and educating stakeholders across the organization.

The ideal candidate has a Bachelor's degree, 2+ years in privacy/compliance (in healthcare), strong research/writing skills, and the ability to work independently in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required.
• 2+ years of compliance experience in healthcare privacy.
• Strong writing and communication skills.
• Ability to manage projects and track incidents.
• Ethical and discrete handling of confidential information.

Responsibilities

• Receiving, documenting, tracking, investigating, and taking action on data incidents and issues concerning compliance with applicable privacy laws and regulations and/or the Company's privacy policies and procedures.
• Ensuring consistent application of sanctions for failure to comply with privacy policies in cooperation with others on the R1 privacy team, Human Resources and legal counsel, as applicable.
• Developing compliance-based metrics and reporting mechanisms to track privacy and data incident concerns as reported into or otherwise identified by compliance.
• Working with internal teams to remediate any activities for continuous privacy improvement, including managing projects for privacy and compliance enhancement.
• Supporting the Company's proactive efforts to monitor, educate on, and promote compliance with all federal, state, and international privacy requirements.
• Assisting in annual compliance and risk assessments.
• Maintaining focus on operational excellence through risk mitigation and protection of data to improve quality and customer satisfaction.
• Assisting in development of and enhancements to the company's Compliance & Ethics Program.
• Demonstrating ability and comfort working with and reporting to a broad spectrum of service lines and professionals, ranging from senior management to front line site and service leaders, including clients and vendors; and
• Flexibly assisting in other areas of concern to the compliance team to benefit the Company's privacy posture.

Skills

Data privacy experience

Project management

Strategic thinking

Written communication

Independent work

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Job description

At R1, we're transforming how healthcare works by combining nearly two decades of revenue cycle expertise with advanced technology, including analytics, AI, intelligent automation and workflow orchestration. We pair that technology with the irreplaceable expertise of our people to help hospitals, health systems and medical groups improve financial performance, simplify administrative complexity and create better experiences for patients and providers.

All Together Better defines our culture and the way we work. We're a diverse, global team united by a shared mission to make healthcare work better for all. Across technology, operations and support functions, our people bring deep expertise, empathy and ingenuity to the work we do. Here, collaboration fuels progress, adaptability sparks innovation and every voice can help shape what's next for R1 and the future of healthcare.

The Privacy Analyst will have experience with health information privacy (including, but not limited to, HIPAA), healthcare compliance, regulatory analysis and interpretation, and/or compliance investigations.

The successful candidate will work with the other members of the R1 privacy team by assessing, monitoring, investigating, educating on, and promoting compliance with all federal and state data and information privacy requirements and addressing client and operational practices.

Further, this candidate will support R1's comprehensive strategy and growth plans in helping to ensure that the company exhibits and maintains a robust privacy compliance program in safeguarding Protected Health Information ("PHI").

Responsibilities:

• Receiving, documenting, tracking, investigating, and taking action on data incidents and issues concerning compliance with applicable privacy laws and regulations and/or the Company's privacy policies and procedures;
• Ensuring consistent application of sanctions for failure to comply with privacy policies in cooperation with others on the R1 privacy team, Human Resources and legal counsel, as applicable;
• Developing compliance-based metrics and reporting mechanisms to track privacy and data incident concerns as reported into or otherwise identified by compliance;
• Working with internal teams to remediate any activities for continuous privacy improvement, including managing projects for privacy and compliance enhancement;
• Supporting the Company's proactive efforts to monitor, educate on, and promote compliance with all federal, state, and international privacy requirements;
• Assisting in annual compliance and risk assessments;
• Maintaining focus on operational excellence through risk mitigation and protection of data to improve quality and customer satisfaction;
• Assisting in development of and enhancements to the company's Compliance & Ethics Program;
• Demonstrating ability and comfort working with and reporting to a broad spectrum of service lines and professionals, ranging from senior management to front line site and service leaders, including clients and vendors; and
• Flexibly assisting in other areas of concern to the compliance team to benefit the Company's privacy posture.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree is Required
• At least two (2) years compliance experience, including data and information privacy experience, preferably in a hospital or health care environment, or within the health care industry more broadly
• Excellent project management skills
• Ability to think strategically and analyze complex compliance issues
• Proven research, writing and communication skills
• High degree of integrity, trust and ability to work independently
• Professional, ethical and discrete in maintaining proprietary and confidential information
• For this US-based position, the base pay range is $53,606.00 - $79,233.51 per year . Individual pay is determined by role, level, location, job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

The healthcare system is always evolving - and it's up to us to use our shared expertise to find new solutions that can keep up. On our growing team you'll find the opportunity to constantly learn, collaborate across groups and explore new paths for your career.

Our associates are given the chance to contribute, think boldly and create meaningful work that makes a difference in the communities we serve around the world. We go beyond expectations in everything we do. Not only does that drive customer success and improve patient care, but that same enthusiasm is applied to giving back to the community and taking care of our team - including offering a competitive benefits package.

R1 RCM Inc. ("the Company") is dedicated to the fundamentals of equal employment opportunity. The Company's employment practices , including those regarding recruitment, hiring, assignment, promotion, compensation, benefits, training, discipline, and termination shall not be based on any person's age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, medical condition, race, relig