Decision Support Analyst

General Information

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Work Location: Los Angeles, CA, USA

Onsite or Remote


Flexible Hybrid


Work Schedule


Monday - Friday, 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM


Posted Date


03/24/2026


Salary Range : $95400 - 208300 Annually


Employment Type


2 - Staff: Career


Duration


Indefinite


Job #


29493


Primary Duties and Responsibilities

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Take on a high-visibility role in a world-class health organization. Help ensure the consistent delivery of the highest quality of care within California's #1 hospital. Take your professional expertise to the next level. UCan do all this and more at UCLA Health.

As a financial advisor and subject matter expert, you will analyze complex problems using patient-level financial and clinical data to support strategic hospital decision-making. Role will involve defining and executing a wide variety of analytical projects, anticipate client needs, establish project scope, identify data sources, translate data into polished deliverables, formulate business strategies, and present recommendations to executives. This position requires you to maintain a high degree of knowledge in healthcare, finance, and operations, including staying current on evolving industry trends. You will:

• Interface with executive and physician leadership
• Collaborate with professional and technical teams to pinpoint issues, achieve objectives and improve performance.
• Audit multiple systems and data for reasonableness and investigate variances
• Benchmark business operations relative to established best practices and internal business objectives
• Apply innovative problem-solving in a dynamic and complex environment

Salary Range: $95,400 to $208,300 annually

Job Qualifications

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We're seeking a self-motivated, creative, goal-driven professional with:

• Related bachelor's degree required
• MBA or MPH preferred
• Five or more years of experience in hospital, insurance, or related healthcare finance preferred
• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint and Tableau highly desired
• Knowledge of hospital decision support and EMR systems, EPSi / Strata and Epic preferred
• Understanding of healthcare coding systems (ICD-10-CM/PCS, UB-04, HCPCS, MS DRG, CPT, etc.)
• Familiarity with Commercial, Medicare, and Medicaid reimbursement
• Ability to write SQL and other coding languages a plus
• Excellent communication, interpersonal, collaboration, and problem-solving skills
• Ability to work autonomously
• Ability to translate clinical needs into financial terms and explain results to a non-financial audience
• Ability to anticipate and respond to rapid changes and industry shifts
• Strong commitment to high-quality deliverables, professional collaboration, and skill development

UCLA Health is a world-renowned health system with four award-winning hospitals and dozens of primary care practices, specialty practices, urgent care centers and other ancillary locations throughout metro Los Angeles as well as the David Geffen School of Medicine. Through the efforts of our outstanding people, we have become Los Angeles' trusted provider of exceptional, compassionate patient care. If you're looking to experience greater challenge and fulfillment in your career, UCan at UCLA Health.

As a condition of employment, the final candidate who accepts an offer of employment will be required to disclose if they have been subject to any final administrative or judicial decisions within the last seven years determining that they committed any misconduct; or have filed an appeal of a finding of substantiated misconduct with a previous employer.

Current/former UC employees are subject to a personnel file review.