DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITES:
• Responsible for elicitation, analysis, and documentation of business requirements.
• Research and exploration of user requirements, costs, and benefits in support of documentation required for the demand management process.
• Responsible for analyzing the business needs to identify new processes and process improvements that will meet those needs.
• Documents current business processes and models to define requirements and/or gaps.
• Analyze detailed system factors including input/output requirements, information and paper flow, hardware, and software needs.
• Analyze “soft" system factors including roles, responsibilities, policy, culture, etc.
• Evaluate the impact of potential software and process changes on the organization.
• Develop and facilitate groups as necessary in pursuit of eliciting and defining requirements.
• Assist in the creation of the business case documentation.
• Understanding of architectural consistency and usability standards.
• Defines and develops user test cases and validates test results during testing.
• Executes unit and functional test cases.
• May conduct system demonstrations and training sessions, as well as participate in design/review of training content.
• Plays a third level support role by helping to troubleshoot and resolve issues with production systems.
• Participates in associate meetings and communicates any concerns to management.
QUALIFICATIONS AND REQUIREMENTS:
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Systems, Business, or another related field or equivalent work experience.
• Proven experience leading data migration requirements from legacy systems into a new ERP (Sage X3) environment
• Strong hands-on expertise in requirements elicitation, documentation, and management, with emphasis on data mapping, transformation rules, and validation
• Deep understanding of data structures, data quality, and migration best practices, with the ability to identify gaps and risks early
• Self-driven and accountable professional with strong stakeholder management and communication skills, able to drive outcomes with minimal oversight
• Working knowledge of Confluence and JIRA.
• Experience in any of the following business areas is desired: Sales operations, order entry, accounting, finance, procurement, warehouse operations, order management, and order fulfillment.
• Minimum of 3-5 years’ business analysis or systems analysis experience is preferred.
• Bonus: Sage X3 experience (ERP).
Associate is expected to operate at a proficient level across the following areas of technical knowledge and skill:
• Ability to organize and prioritize work.
• Detail oriented, proactive, creative, and efficient
• Intermediate level abilities in Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Visio, and Word
• Familiarity with application integration methods to include understanding of data mapping process.
• Ability to effectively work both independently and collaboratively in a team environment
• Ability to work on simultaneous and complex projects, with domain expertise in at least one business area.
• Expertise in ERP solution selection and implementation is a plus
• Ability to communicate effectively to both technical and non-technical audiences in written and non-written format
• Ability to work with all levels of associates
• Ability to work with minimal supervision in a very dynamic environment
• Ability to learn new systems and tools
• Knowledge of software development life cycle methodologies, processes, and procedures.
• Active listener
• Effective in a variety of formal/informal presentation settings: one-on-one, small, and large groups.
Job Title: Business Analyst (RN)
Location: REMOTE (SC Resident)
Duration: 12 Months
This position requires an individual with strong analytical skills and experience in:
- Managing multiple work efforts simultaneously
- Medical Coding
- Nursing
- Time management skills
- CPT/HCPCS and ICD-10 translation
- Ability to write and understand business and functional requirements.
- Please ensure that your candidates have strengths in these areas. Please do not submit general Medical Coders with no structured background in business rules or claims processing, preferably Government Operations and Managed Care background.
- The candidate must have strong collaboration and relationship building skills.
- Experience in healthcare insurance
Scope of the project:
This project is a multi-year effort which primarily focuses on providing consulting services to operations and policy staff for the current Medicaid Management Information System (MMIS).
The current position’s focus and priority is the continued support of serving as a subject matter expert (SME), building knowledge that allows policy and process owners to make the best recommendations for Medicaid members and providers.
Objectives to be fulfilled by candidate:
The principal duties of this position are to assist with the CPT/HCPCS and ICD-10 code maintenance. As the IT Healthcare Consultant – Business Analyst – Advanced (Clinical Analyst and Coding Specialist):
Specific duties include, but are not limited to:
- Initiates annual (and quarterly) updates from CMS of all ICD-10, CPT/HCPCS coding changes.
- Performs initial review of codes to determine scope of changes.
- Prepares listings of codes changes to Reference Administration staff and Medicaid Program staff for review and analysis.
- Conducts meetings with Agency personnel, stakeholders, and process owners.
- (Future) Participates in DASH (Replacement MMIS) project meetings, as needed, where reference administration expertise is required.
- Serves as an agency subject matter expert (SME) for medical coding methodologies, Medicaid policy, and related topics.
- Research business rules, requirements, and models to complete initial analysis and recommendations.
- Maintains business rules, requirements, and models in a repository.
- Collaborates with team to ensure process documentation is complete, owner and stakeholder, as needed, training content is complete and routinely updated.
- May serve as a back-up to review patient records against established criteria to determine medical necessity.
- Other project-related duties.
- 5+ years written and oral communications skills, strong proficiency in English.
- Knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite
Required skills (rank in order of importance):
- 5+ years in healthcare insurance; medical review, program integrity, or appeals.
- 5+ years working with IT developers/programmers in a payor environment.
- 5+ years Medical Coding in payer environment.
- 3+ years clinical experience in a healthcare environment (strong clinical assessment and critical thinking skills.)
- 5+ years knowledge of ICD/CPT/HCPCS translation and coding methodologies.
- 5+ years knowledge of anatomy, physiology, pharmacology, and medical terminology.
Preferred skills (rank in order of importance):
- 5+ years’ experience in policy remediation.
- 5+ years claims processing systems experience.
- 5+ years Optum Encoder and/or other medical coding software programs
Required education:
Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) or Associate Degree in Nursing (ADN)
Required Certifications:
Must have current, active, and non-restricted licensure by the State of South Carolina Board of Nursing as a Registered Nurse.
Currently credentialed as CPC (Certified Professional Coder) or as CCS (Certified Coding Specialist). ICD-10 Proficiency demonstrated by exam; or able to become certified within one year of employment