Program Analyst

Job Title

Program Analyst

Duties

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Major duties include, but are not limited to:

• Serves as a technical consultant to the Chief Financial Officer, Supervisory Budget Analyst, and hospital leadership providing evaluation, guidance, recommendations, and oversight of activities related to workload capture, resource utilization, information management, revenue enhancement, and VERA funding.
• Executes responsibilities through analyses, measuring, coordination, planning, administration, development, interpretation, delegation, and good judgment.
• Serves as a principal advisor to hospital leadership throughout this complex multi mission facility.
• Conducts studies, analyzes findings, and makes recommendations to management (on a quantitative or qualitative basis) regarding the effectiveness and efficiency of substantive, revenue management program operations in order to meet related goals, mission, and objectives.
• Extracts clinical and financial data from Allocation Resource Center (ARC), VHA Support Service Center (VSSC) and Managerial Accounting Control Center (MACC) to compile data for managerial reporting activities.
• Responsible for expert understanding of patient classification to identify historical trends and provide analysis to support anomalies in data.
• Analyzes data from the VERA model and the Allocation Resource Center to assess whether the facility is being reimbursed appropriately for caseloads across the VERA patient class hierarchies, including validating that patients are appropriately categorized.
• Develops and implements action plans to ensure that workload capture is appropriate and that patients are categorized into the proper VERA Price Group.
• Researches and investigates new or improved revenue enhancement practices for application to hospital programs or operations which requires an understanding between the administrative processes and the program's mission.
• Examines all Price Groups in the VERA model for the uniques at VA SORCC and ensures that the appropriate funding reimbursement occurs for these patients.
• Coordinates workload, resource use, information management, revenue enhancement, and VERA funding activities through leadership in committees and workgroups by adhoc reporting and working with key stakeholders to achieve appropriate deliverables.
• Identifies and develops reports required for use in the management and direction of related programs.
• Works with Compliance Officer and Patient Administration Service to ensure that MCCF collections and Fee Basis controls are in place to support VERA funding.
• Works directly with Clinical services to provide VERA information and analysis, specifically the changes of VERA Classification revenue to determine the cause and effect of such changes.
• Provides strategies to the Clinic Services and Leadership strategies to maximize revenue projections. When requested, pulls detailed VERA information for analysis of revenue trends.
• Provides regular and timely reports on workload capture, resource utilization, information management, revenue enhancement, and VERA funding.
• Provides additional support to fiscal service to include data extraction, ad reporting and validation of financial data.
• Analyzes new or proposed legislation or regulations to determine impact on hospital workload, funding, and resources.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

Work Schedule: Monday - Friday, 8:00am - 4:30pm PST

Telework: Not Authorized

Virtual: This is not a virtual position.

Position Description/PD#: Program Analyst/ PD902630

Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: MAY be authorized for highly qualified applicants

Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized