Senior Payer Analytics and Economics Analyst

CHI; Englewood (CO); Remote; USD 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

CHI is seeking a Senior Payer Analytics and Economics Analyst to lead financial analysis and contract modeling within a dynamic healthcare environment. The role involves strategic pricing evaluations, mentorship of analysts, and providing insights to senior leadership on managed care contracts. Ideal candidates possess a Bachelor’s degree and have a solid background in financial healthcare analysis.

Qualifications

• Minimum 3 years of experience in financial healthcare reimbursement analysis.
• Understanding of fee-for-service and value-based reimbursement methodologies.
• Proficiency in data reporting from healthcare databases.

Responsibilities

• Lead payer contract modeling and financial performance monitoring.
• Perform strategic pricing analysis for reimbursement rates.
• Provide training and oversight on payer contracts modeling.

Skills

Financial healthcare reimbursement analysis

Data management strategies

Complex financial modeling

MS Excel

SQL queries

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Accounting, Finance or Healthcare

Tools

MS Access

PIC

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Responsibilities

This is a remote position.

The Senior Analyst, Payer Analytics & Economics performs complex managed care payer financial analysis, strategic pricing and payer contract modeling activities for a defined payer portfolio. Provides analytical and pricing expertise for the evaluation, negotiation, implementation and maintenance of managed care contracts between CommonSpirit Health providers and payers. Recommends strategies for maximizing reimbursement and market share. Provides mentorship and guidance of Analyst contract modeling. Provides analysis findings and education to key stakeholders. This position will serve and support all stakeholders through ongoing educational and problem-solving support for managed care payer reimbursement models. This position requires daily contact with senior management, physicians, hospital staff, and managed care/payer strategy leaders.

Essential Key Job Responsibilities

• Lead payer contract modeling strategy and consolidation for large managed care payer negotiations.
• Act as a liaison between CommonSpirit Health and payer to update information and communicate changes related to reimbursement. Perform complex strategic pricing analysis to support the negotiation and implementation of appropriate reimbursement rates and associated language, between physicians/hospitals and payers/networks for managed care contracting initiatives.
• Develop and approve financial models and payer performance analysis.
• Monitor contract financial performance. Analyze and publish managed care performance statements and determine profitability. Review and accurately interpret contract terms, including payer policies and procedures impacting contract performance.
• Provide training and oversight of the modeling of proposed/existing payer contracts negotiated by payer strategy and operations, including expected and actual revenues/volumes, past performance, proposed contract language and regulatory changes.
• Prepare complex service line reimbursement analyses and financial performance analyses. Develop methods and models (involving multiple variables and assumptions) to identify the implications/ramifications/results of a wide variety of new/revised strategies, approaches, provision, parameters and rate structures aimed at establishing appropriate reimbursement levels.
• Identify, collect, and manipulate from a wide variety of financial and clinical internal data bases and external sources. Identify and access appropriate data resources to support analyses and recommendations.
• Prepare and effectively present results to senior leadership, and other key stakeholders, for review and decision-making activities.
• Maintain knowledge of operations sufficient to identify causative factors, deviations, allowances that may affect reporting findings. Ability to translate operational knowledge to identify unusual circumstances, trends or activity and project the related impact on a timely, pre-emptive basis.
  
  

Qualifications

Required Education and Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, Healthcare or related field. Equivalent education and experience, in related field may be considered in lieu of degree.
• Minimum of three (3) years of experience in financial healthcare reimbursement analysis is required, including an understanding of national standards for fee-for-service and value-based provider reimbursement methodologies.
  
  

Required Minimum Knowledge, Skills, Abilities And Training

• Working knowledge of financial healthcare reimbursement analysis including an understanding of national standards for fee-for-service and value-based provide reimbursement methodologies.
• Experience in contribution to profitability through detailed financial analysis and efficient delivery of data management strategies supporting contract analysis, trend management, budgeting, forecasting, strategic planning, and healthcare operations.
• Basic technical understanding and proficiency in MS Excel, MS Access, PIC, SQL queries, or other related applications.
• Working knowledge of healthcare financial statements and accounting principles.
• Ability to use and create data reports from health information systems, databases or national payer websites (EPIC, EPSI, PIC, SQL Databases, etc.)
• Proficiency in reading, interpreting and formulating computer and mathematical rules/formulas.
  
  

Overview

Inspired by faith. Driven by innovation. Powered by humankindness. CommonSpirit Health is building a healthier future for all through its integrated health services. As one of the nation’s largest nonprofit Catholic healthcare organizations, CommonSpirit Health delivers more than 20 million patient encounters annually through more than 2,300 clinics, care sites and 137 hospital-based locations, in addition to its home-based services and virtual care offerings. CommonSpirit has more than 157,000 employees, 45,000 nurses and 25,000 physicians and advanced practice providers across 24 states and contributes more than $4.2 billion annually in charity care, community benefits and unreimbursed government programs. Together with our patients, physicians, partners, and communities, we are creating a more just, equitable, and innovative healthcare delivery system.

Pay Range

$38.81 - $56.28 /hour

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Finance and Sales

• Industries

  Hospitals and Health Care

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