BCN Financial Analyst- PFA

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Southfield, MI

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan

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Full-time

Competitive Total Compensation Package

Overview: The Analyst supports reimbursement and audit reporting. Based on unit assignment may be responsible for preparation and analysis of monthly HMO Primary Care Group (PCG) financial statements and other paid claim reports for the BCN product lines, coordination with parent organization (BCBSM) to supply reports for settlement purposes or auditing of paid claims to ensure payments are made per contractual language and complicated reimbursement audits. Support Provider Affairs department by producing detailed ad-hoc reports to assist in management of PCG members or assist with other facility audits to ensure claims are paid at the contracted rate.
Responsibilities: <p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">REIMBURSEMENT AND AUDIT:</span></p> <ul> <li>Analyze and report to BCBSM PHA hospital payments for discounted or unique arrangements to ensure accurate settlement of claims.&nbsp;</li> <li>Analyze and audit claim payments and payment mechanisms produced by the Facets claims system.&nbsp;</li> <li>Perform fee schedule impact analysis for modeling purposes and decision making; re-price claims due to retro-active pricing updates.&nbsp;</li> <li>Analyze, research, develop and implement new reimbursement methods.&nbsp;</li> <li>Assist in User Acceptance Testing of new reimbursements to assure appropriate payouts are made.&nbsp;</li> <li>Represent department on corporate workgroups and meetings.&nbsp;</li> <li>Other duties may be assigned.&nbsp;</li> </ul> <p>&nbsp;</p>
Requirements: <ul> <li>Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration, Finance, Accounting, Computer Science or related field.</li> <li>Two (2) years systems analyses experience required which includes one year (1) year of medical claim systems configuration and/or pricing analyses.</li> <li>One (1) year experience using diagnosis and procedure coding systems (for example CPT, MUPC, HCPCS and ICD-9) with regard to hospital or medical claims billing and processing.</li> <li>One (1) year database management software and PC experience.</li> <li>Ability to perform detailed financial analysis, complex pricing, system research/analysis, reconciliation, provide solutions and/or develop audit reports.</li> <li>High degree of complex evaluative, analysis and problem solving.</li> <li>Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite software (Access, Excel, and Word) required Business Object and Facets preferred.</li> <li>Excellent verbal and written communication skills.</li> <li>Knowledge of HMO procedures preferred.</li> <li>Thorough understanding of managed care physician provider reimbursement and risk funding arrangements preferred.</li> <li>Detailed knowledge of claims, pricing, benefits and provider mainframe computer systems required, including BCN mainframe claims subsystem (Facets) interaction preferred.</li> <li>Knowledge of funding arrangements between BCN and IPAs preferred.</li> <li>Demonstrated knowledge of claim processing system analysis and configuration preferred.</li> <li>Other duties may be assigned.</li> </ul> <p>DEPARTMENT REQUIREMENTS:</p> <ul> <li>Working knowledge of health care claims processing.</li> <li>Working knowledge of fee scheduling, which is 50% of the work.</li> <li>Beginning to intermediate experience using Access concepts with the ability to pull and manipulate data.</li> <li>Beginning to intermediate working ability to summarize large volumes of data using Excel.</li> </ul> <p>DEPARTMENT PREFERENCES:</p> <ul> <li>Experience in audits.</li> <li>Knowledge of Commercial products.</li> </ul> <br /><em>All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to, among other grounds, race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, gender identity, protected veteran status or status as an individual with a disability.</em>