Analyst – Charge Master

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Revenue integrity analyst managing hospital charge capture, audits, and payer compliance for Northeast Georgia Health System. Maintaining charge masters and supporting clean claims.

Responsibilities:

  • Assess, coordinate and manage charge capture and reconciliation processes from charge creation through clean claim submission
  • Improve revenue management and ensure charge capture process integrity
  • Collaborate with revenue cycle and department leadership to meet regulatory requirements
  • Coordinate new services and products for revenue cycle purposes
  • Identify, review and build charges within the EMR and CDM
  • Select appropriate charge generation models
  • Maintain a compliant charge description master file
  • Conduct routine charge capture audits and implement suggested changes
  • Interact with clinical and ancillary departments to ensure charge codes accurately reflect services
  • Lead reviews and maintenance of Hospital and Physician Charge Masters
  • Monitor changing industry requirements, regulations, fraud alerts and advisory opinions
  • Coordinate communication regarding regulatory or payer changes with impacted leaders
  • Investigate and advise on professional/technical billing, coding and regulatory documentation requirements
  • Assess audit and monitoring trends and coordinate mitigation activities
  • Research third-party payer regulations and ensure compliance with federal, state and local payer regulations and hospital contracts
  • Participate on committees as assigned
  • Perform other duties as assigned

Requirements:

  • Certification in healthcare compliance (HCAA or AAPC's certification) and/or Coding Certification (RHIA, RHIT, CPC or CCS)
  • Minimum five (5) years demonstrated administrative skills in Coding, CDM/Charge Master, Finance, or medical records
  • Demonstrated experience working with hospital charging processes
  • Extensive experience/knowledge in revenue cycle processes
  • Extensive experience in effective problem-solving skills, project management skills, and conflict resolution skills
  • Preferred: Bachelor's Degree from an accredited college or university in Healthcare Administration
  • Preferred experience with APC reimbursement, CMS rules and regulations, coding and billing compliance
  • Working knowledge of OPPS, HCPCS and CPT-4 coding schemes
  • Experience in multi-hospital organizations
  • Epic experience
  • Ability to incorporate regulatory requirements and perform data input, analysis and QA
  • Ability to interpret, analyze, develop, direct and implement large-scale implementations and projects
  • Ability to identify and redesign inefficient workflows and processes
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including conflict resolution
  • Strong interpersonal skills
  • Superior analytical and problem-solving skills
  • Ability to work independently or with minimal supervision
  • Excellent analytical skills for pricing, revenues and reimbursement analysis
  • Excel and/or Access proficiency

Benefits:

  • Equal Opportunity Employer
  • Opportunities to reach personal and professional goals
  • Team investment in employees as people