Senior Healthcare Business Intelligence Analyst

*** OUTSTANDING OPPORTUNITY | HYBIDE ROLE, NOT REMOTE | ALL CANDIDATES MUST RESIDE (OR RELOCATE TO) WITHIN DRIVING DISTANCE OF LINCOLN, NE ***

*** Hospital Experience Is REQUIRED ***

$135,000 to $145,000 base salary, plus performance based bonus. This is an outstanding opportunity for an early-career professional with an exceptional pay-for-performance rate. Rare chance to blend your healthcare revenue cycle, IT and operational 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 defining and documenting business requirements; providing optimal healthcare operational, revenue cycle & transformation related services; and developing quantitative support for wide-ranging other improvement initiatives.

The Senior Healthcare Financial & Business Analyst must have a broad-based healthcare finance, operations, revenue cycle, 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:

The successful candidate will demonstrate experience and abilities as follows:

• Assist with a wide range of project-based requests to support NHA’s growing health data & business advisory services. Conduct financial analysis related to hospital and clinic operations, reimbursement, and payer contracts.
• Work collaboratively with hospital mid-level and senior leadership to identify & implement targeted revenue cycle, IT and operational alternatives.
• Utilize advanced data analytics techniques to interpret complex healthcare datasets and provide actionable insights and recommendations to hospital management.
• Extract, transform, and validate data from multiple EHRs and other financial systems (e.g., Epic, Cerner/Oracle, Meditech, TruBridge, Athena, etc.).

Required Skills and Experience:

• Minimum 2 years’ experience with health care data, financial and claims information. Experience with hospital revenue cycle, chargemaster, coding, billing, clinical operations, supply chain and IT infrastructure is required.
• Bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting, economics, IT or hospital-based clinical specialty (e.g., nursing) required
• In-depth understanding of healthcare systems, Electronic Health Records (EHRs), health data standards (e.g., HL7), regulatory compliance, and financial aspects of healthcare.
• Strong knowledge of healthcare reimbursement structures (Medicare, Medicaid, commercial payers). Experience working with hospital Charge Master, cost reports, UB claims data, payer mix analysis, supply chain and IT infrastructure is required.
• Ability to interpret hospital and clinic financial statements is required.
• Skilled in query languages and software for data manipulation and visualization such as Python, SQL, R, Power BI, Tableau, Microsoft Access, Excel or other compatible tools is preferred.
• Proficient in the use of technology to support work activities e.g., expertise in database extraction and ETL tools, data quality analysis, and proven ability to develop charts and graphs to summarize information for reporting purposes, etc. is preferred
• Ability to work independently and meet project deadlines.
• Ensure accuracy, consistency, and compliance in financial reporting.
• Ensure full compliance with HIPAA and relevant security protocols during all data access, handling phases of access and transmission.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Work Environment:

• Hybrid 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: $135,000.00 - $145,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Disability insurance
• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Relocation assistance
• Vision insurance
• Work from home

Application Question(s):

• All candidates must be U.S. citizens. This position is not available to candidates requiring visa sponsorship. Are you currently a U.S. citizen?
• This position REQUIRES a minimum of 2 years of experience working in a hospital environment. Do you meet this criteria?

Ability to Relocate:

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

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Lincoln, NE 68508