Hospital Analyst - Business Intelligence (NOT remote)

*** NOT REMOTE - HYBRID IN LINCOLN, NE - MUST HAVE HEALTHCARE EXPERIENCE***

$100,000 to $120,000 base salary, plus performance bonus. This is an outstanding opportunity for an early-career professional with an exceptional pay-for-performance rate. Rare chance to blend your healthcare finance, revenue cycle, operational & IT technical knowledge to make a real difference for 92 hospitals & health care systems across Nebraska.

Job Summary:

The Nebraska Hospital Association (NHA) is seeking an early-career professional with strong healthcare financial literacy and analytical skills to assist in supporting high-impact financial & operational advisory services. This position assists NHA advisory professionals in providing optimal healthcare revenue cycle transformation related services; and developing quantitative support for wide-ranging other improvement initiatives.

The Hospital Analyst - Business Intelligence must have healthcare finance, revenue cycle, operations, IT and informatics background with a proven talent for designing, extracting, validating, processing and reporting data for decision-making purposes. This role requires a health care professional with experience and an ability to navigate hospital Electronic Health Records, financial and data systems in support of high-quality consulting advisory services.

Responsibilities:

• Design and maintain data models (snowflake a plus)
• Build SQL and data transformations against large data sets
• Understand database architecture
• Build Power BI dashboards add develop, optimize and maintain BI dashboards
• Write DAX
• Validate and troubleshoot data
• Translate business requirements into technical solutions
• Work independently with minimal oversight
• Own data governance practices such as documentation, naming conventions and access controls
• Monitor and troubleshoot pipeline failures and data discrepancies

Technical Needs

• Advanced SQL
• Power BI (including DAX)
• Data modeling / schema design (star schema, fact dimension tables, relationships)
• ETL / data movement concepts
• Data quality validation
• Healthcare analytics experience preferred

Personal

• Self-starter
• High accountability
• Problem solver
• Comfortable with ambiguity
• Able to own projects from request through delivery
• Strong communicator

The successful candidate will also demonstrate experience and abilities as follows:

• Assist with a wide range of project-based requests to support NHA’s growing consulting advisory services. Conduct financial analysis & assist in implementing operational alternatives related to hospital and clinic operations, reimbursement, and payer contracts.
• Work collaboratively with internal teams, hospital mid-level and senior leadership to identify & implement targeted revenue cycle, operational & IT alternatives.
• Extract, transform, and validate data from multiple EHRs and other financial systems (e.g., Epic, Cerner/Oracle, Meditech, TruBridge, etc.).

Additional Required Skills and Experience:

• Minimum 1 year experience with healthcare data, financial and claims information. Experience with healthcare revenue cycle, enrollment/credentialing, upfront collections, payer contracting, chargemaster, coding, billing, DNFB, denials management and appeals is HIGHLY PREFERRED. These candidates will receive priority status.
• Bachelor’s degree in nursing, finance, accounting, economics, IT or healthcare administration preferred
• Understanding of healthcare systems, Electronic Health Records (EHRs), health data standards (e.g., HL7), regulatory compliance, and financial aspects of healthcare is preferred.
• Knowledge of healthcare reimbursement structures (Medicare, Medicaid, commercial payers). Experience working with hospital Charge Master, Medicare Cost Reports, UB claims data, payer mix analysis and IT infrastructure is preferred.

Work Environment:

• Hybrid role with some in-state & overnight travel required. This is NOT a remote position.

About Us:

The Nebraska Hospital Association (NHA) is a statewide trade association representing Nebraska's 92 hospitals and health systems since 1927.

The NHA serves as the influential voice of its members in the health care legislative and public arenas, promoting delivery of quality health care and influencing public opinion of hospitals and health networks. Members depend on the Association for information, advice, education and changes in health care policy

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $100,000.00 - $120,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance

Application Question(s):

• This is NOT a remote position. All candidates MUST currently reside or relocate to within a commutable distance of the Lincoln/Omaha metro area. Are you able to meet this requirement?
• This is a "boots on the ground" position with our 92 hospitals across Nebraska. It may require up to 4 nights (6 days) of overnight travel per month. Are you able to meet this requirement?
• All candidates MUST have at least 1 year of previous hospital/healthcare experience. Do you meet this criteria?

Ability to Relocate:

• Lincoln, NE 68508: Relocate before starting work (Required)

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Lincoln, NE 68508

Salary : $100,000 - $120,000