Description
Wage Range: $116,522 - $186,430 per year
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Job Summary
The Director of Decision Support is responsible for overseeing the activities of the Decision Support department and its staff, ensuring the effective management of Decision Support systems and processes. This role involves leading both department-wide and organization-wide initiatives, including costing updates, staff meetings, and system upgrades/implementations. The Director ensures the integrity and maintenance of various systems used for clinical, financial, and other types of analysis. Key responsibilities include Providing expertise in the development of business plans for new or expanded services throughout the organization. Proactively identify information needs within the organization and respond to requests for diverse analyses of operations. Supports the Director of Finance in completing the annual operating and capital budgets, as well as the long-term forecast. Applies expert knowledge of operational improvement principles, clinical process and outcomes measurement, and fiscal management and analysis.
Primary Duties:

1. Provides direction and oversight for the methodology, data collection and analysis, data validation and report preparation to facilitate and support financial analyses.
2. Develops efficient tools to maximize data appropriateness, consistency and timeliness, and minimizes the burden of data collection and analysis.
3. Works directly with physicians, senior executive leadership and professional staff throughout the medical center regarding ad-hoc requests for information to support high level administrative and clinical decision making; acts as a teaching resource around data collection, analysis and reporting issues.
4. Provides leadership to the cost allocation process including; Identifies and resolves cost allocation issues; ensures that all direct and overhead costs are allocated correctly to patient data; Ensures that cost to charge ratios by individual charge master item are reasonable.
5. Performs other duties as assigned.

License, Certification Education or Experience:
REQUIRED for the position:

• Bachelor's degree
• 5 years' experience in healthcare finance
• Familiarity with management of accounts receivable, insurance contracting and Medicare regulations related to physician practices
• Must have ability to communicate information technology requirements to technical support/ system design experts
• Working knowledge of and experience using and applying decision support methodologies and principles
• Prior experience with project management, change management and process improvement methods.
• Demonstrate excellent verbal and written communication skills and be a strong collaborator.
• Strong leadership skills, a commitment to maintaining high standards of system integrity, and an initiative-taking approach to identifying and meeting the organization's information needs.

DESIRED for the position:

• 3 years of management or leadership experience

Benefit Information: Choices that care for you and your family
At EvergreenHealth, we appreciate our employees' commitment and contribution to our success. We are proud to offer a suite of quality benefits and resources that are comprehensive, flexible, and competitive to help our staff and their loved ones maintain and improve health and financial well-being.

• Medical, vision and dental insurance
• On-demand virtual health care
• Health Savings Account
• Flexible Spending Account
• Life and disability insurance
• Retirement plans 457(b) and 401(a) with employer contribution)
• Tuition assistance for undergraduate and graduate degrees
• Federal Public Service Loan Forgiveness program
• Paid Time Off/Vacation
• Extended Illness Bank/Sick Leave
• Paid holidays
• Voluntary hospital indemnity insurance
• Voluntary identity theft protection
• Voluntary legal insurance
• Pay in lieu of benefits premium program
• Free parking
• Commuter benefits
• Cafeteria & Gift Shop Discount

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