Primary City/State:

Mesa, Arizona

Department Name:

Revenue Integrity-Corp

Work Shift:

Day

Job Category:

Revenue Cycle

Primary Location Salary Range:

$21.20/hr - $31.81/hr, based on education & experience

In accordance with Colorado's EPEWA Equal Pay Transparency Rules.

A rewarding career that fits your life. Those who have joined the Banner mission come from all walks of life, united by the common goal: Make health care easier, so life can be better. If changing health care for the better sounds like something you want to be part of, apply today.

Revenue Integrity has become a leading national focus to gain greater visibility for sound financial outcomes/practices, compliance and optimal reimbursement with focus across all continuums of patient care. Revenue Integrity in an integral part of the Revenue Cycle and covers all essentials related to it. We have teams comprised of Charge Capture, Pre-bill, Post-bill and Monitoring (Auditing). RI also utilizes technology to enhance achievement along with an added focus where necessary that may include high dollar accounts, denials, improved A/R days and cash flow while collaborating with many areas such as Billing, Coding, CDM Services Expected reimbursement

Revenue Integrity Analyst I will work with a variety of claims, correcting coding or charging errors that may prevent a bill from going to the payer.

This can be a remote position if you live in the following states only: AR, AZ, CA, CO, FL, HI, IA, ID, MO, ND, NE, NV, PA, TX, UT, WA, WI, WY 

Within Banner Health Corporate, you will have the opportunity to apply your unique experience and expertise in support of a nationally-recognized healthcare leader. We offer stimulating and rewarding careers in a wide array of disciplines. Whether your background is in Human Resources, Finance, Information Technology, Legal, Managed Care Programs or Public Relations, you'll find many options for contributing to our award-winning patient care.

POSITION SUMMARY
This position is responsible for managing, coordinating, and implementing charge capture initiatives and processes to improve revenue management and revenue protection. This position is responsible to discover revenue issue root cause and to develop correction action plan and provide charge capture education. In addition, recommend modifications to established practices and procedures or system functionality as needed to support revenue cycle and manage implementation of the recommended changes. The Revenue Integrity Analyst will work with internal customers to ensure newly implemented workflows and procedures, support revenue cycle integrity and to achieve revenue cycle's financial goals.

CORE FUNCTIONS
1. Reviews facility daily gross revenue reports for variances. Collaborates with department directors/managers to review variances. Escalates variances related to charge capture and collaborates with Revenue Cycle team for process improvements as indicated.

2. Provides concurrent and retrospective charge reviews across Banner facilities comparing clinical documentation to billed charges as directed by Revenue Integrity Manager, Compliance and facility requests. Identify charge capture opportunities, proactively identifying revenue opportunity and suggests improvements.

3. Monitor/Resolve nThrive charge capture work queues to identify opportunities for improvement in charge capture, clinical documentation and system enhancements to improve charge capture. Maintains a current knowledge of coding and documentation requirements as required for compliant billing.

4. Collaborates with Revenue Integrity Senior Manager to develop and generate standardized reporting templates for revenue integrity KPI dashboard and daily/weekly analytics.

5. Analyzes and quantifies all charge capture review results for reporting to departments, CFO and Revenue Integrity Continuous Improvement Forums.

6. Provides guidance and education to departments as a subject matter expert on compliant charge capture and charge reconciliation.

7. Provides education to departments on how to work charge rejection log to ensure all charge are captured to avoid missed revenue and reduce late charges.

8. Coordinate department requested CDM charge additions and deletions as applicable. Partners with Coding, Cerner Clinical Informatics and Revenue Cycle teams to support performance improvement opportunities.

9. Works independently and in collaboration with Revenue Cycle Team under the direction of the Revenue Integrity Senior Manager. Researches complex charging/billing issues and provides education and recommends process improvements to ensure compliant charge capture and reimbursement. Uses structured work procedures and independent judgment to solve problems and achieve high quality levels. Work output has a significant impact on system business goal attainment. Customers include facility ancillary departments, physicians, nurses, third party payors, central billing staff, and patients/patient families.

Performs all functions according to established policies, procedures, regulatory and accreditation requirements, as well as applicable professional standards. Provides all customers of Banner Health with an excellent service experience by consistently demonstrating our core and leader behaviors each and every day.

NOTE: The core functions are intended to describe the general content of and requirements of this position and are not intended to be an exhaustive statement of duties. Specific tasks or responsibilities will be documented as outlined by the incumbent's immediate manager.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES
DIRECTLY REPORTING
None
MATRIX OR INDIRECT REPORTING
None
TYPE OF SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES
None

Banner Health Leadership will strive to uphold the mission, values, and purpose of the organization. They will serve as role models for staff and act in a people-centered, service excellence-focused, and results-oriented manner.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS/ENVIRONMENT FACTORS
OE - Typical Office Environment: (Accountant, Administrative Assistant, Consultant, Program Manager)
Requires extensive sitting with periodic standing and walking.
May be required to lift up to 20 pounds.
Requires significant use of personal computer, phone and general office equipment.
Needs adequate visual acuity, ability to grasp and handle objects.
Needs ability to communicate effectively through reading, writing, and speaking in person or on telephone.
May require off-site travel
Not a safety sensitive position.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

Must possess a strong knowledge of business and/or healthcare as normally obtained through the completion of an Associate's degree Applied Health Sciences, Finance or health related field.

Requires a level of knowledge normally gained over 2-3 years of related work in the same type of clinical, medical office or acute care unit. Must be knowledgeable of medical terminology and current regulatory agency requirements for coding and charging for the assigned clinical area and have a good understanding of reimbursement methodologies. Requires strong abilities in researching, reading, interpreting and communicating financial data as related to charge capture, effective interpersonal skills, organizational skills and collaborative team working skills.

Must be able to work effectively with Microsoft office software, coding and billing software, Cerner, NextGen and MS4.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

Preferred licensure includes coding credentials (e.g. CCA, CCEP, CCS, CCS-P, COC, CHC, CHFP, CPC, CRCM, RHIT, etc.).

Additional related education and/or experience preferred.

DATE APPROVED 05/19/2019