*** OUTSTANDING OPPORTUNITY - HYBRID IN LINCOLN, NE - NOT REMOTE***

$155,000 to $175,000 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, supply chain & 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 Revenue Cycle Senior Consultant must have a broad-based 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. The ideal candidate will have experience working with both PPS and Critical Access Hospital systems.

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 consulting advisory services. Conduct financial analysis & assist in implementing operational alternatives 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, operational & IT 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 3 years’ experience with health care data, financial and claims information. Experience with hospital revenue cycle, enrollment/credentialing, upfront collections, payer contracting, chargemaster, coding, billing, DNFB, denials management and appeals is REQUIRED.
• Bachelor’s degree in nursing, finance, accounting, economics, IT or healthcare administration preferred
• Candidates with experience in both PPS and Critical Access Hospital systems highly preferred
• 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, Medicare Cost Reports, UB claims data, payer mix analysis, supply chain and IT infrastructure is required. An in-depth knowledge and understanding of PPS versus Critical Access Hospital reimbursement structures preferred.
• 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 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: $155,000.00 - $175,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Employee assistance program
• 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?
• All candidates MUST have at least 3 years of previous hospital revenue cycle operations experience. Do you meet this criteria?
• This is a "boots on the ground" position with our 92 hospitals across Nebraska. It may require up to 6 nights (8 days) of overnight travel per month. Are you able to meet this requirement?

Ability to Relocate:

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

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Lincoln, NE 68508