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SalaryAbout NYC Health + Hospitals:
Empower Every New Yorker — Without Exception — to Live the Healthiest Life Possible
NYC Health + Hospitals is the largest public health care system in the United States. We provide essential outpatient, inpatient and home-based services to more than one million New Yorkers every year across the city’s five boroughs. Our large health system consists of ambulatory centers, acute care centers, post-acute care/long-term care, rehabilitation programs, Home Care, and Correctional Health Services. Our diverse workforce is uniquely focused on empowering New Yorkers, without exception, to live the healthiest life possible.
At NYC Health + Hospitals, our mission is to deliver high quality care health services, without exception. Every employee takes a person-centered approach that exemplifies the ICARE values (Integrity, Compassion, Accountability, Respect, and Excellence) through empathic communication and partnerships between all persons.
Job Description:
Oracle Hyperion Profitability and Cost Management (HPCM), is the cost accounting module and is a part of the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) project. The cost accounting system will allow for better reporting on revenue and expenditures and allow managers to analyze our data from multiple perspectives, for example by hospital units and clinics, diagnosis, or physician when merged with the data warehouse (SCORE) an internally built platform also on Oracle that contains all clinical, pt. demographic and pt. financial information. In light of NYC Health + Hospitals’ budgetary challenges, it is vital that the health system gain a more precise understanding of its services and associated costs to enable strategic decisions and identify services areas for growth and/or improvement. The cost accounting system and SCORE build and warehouse maintenance will be managed centrally through a governance structure focused on a standardized approach that continually seeks to improve the breadth of its reporting analytics.
General tasks and responsibilities will include:
- The employee will support the development of Cost Accounting at the sites (the 11 acute care hospitals, along with the Gotham FQHC’s and the long-term acute care facilities).
- This position is for an Assistant Director who will be responsible for the oversight of the Cost Accounting project at multiple sites.
- The employee in this role will help to inform the work of the Central Office Cost Accounting unit.
- The employee’s primary role is to serve as a liaison between the Central Office Cost Accounting unit and various departments at the hospital.
- This includes, but is not limited to, the Finance Department and the clinical areas.
- The employee will assist in facilitating the identification of operational or other changes at their site(s) that may impact the data in the Cost Accounting System.
- The employee with assist in validating their site’s data by participating in the processes of data review, analysis, reconciliation, and verification.
The employee will also assist in the dissemination and analysis of reports on an ongoing basis, monitor variances in the site’s data and support the ongoing refinement and generation of reports.
Minimum Qualifications:
1. A Master’s degree from an accredited college or university in Healthcare, Hospital, Public or Business Administration, Industrial/Organizational Psychology, Organizational Behavior or a related discipline and three (3) years of full-time experience planning, developing and monitoring programs, systems and/or procedures in support of administrative management initiatives, one (1) year of which must have been in a responsible managerial or supervisory capacity; or
2. A Baccalaureate degree from an accredited college or university in disciplines, as listed in “1” above and four (4) years of full-time experience, as outlined in “1” above, two (2) years of which must have been in a responsible managerial or supervisory capacity; or
3. A satisfactory equivalent combination of education, training and/or experience.
Department Preferences
- Familiarity with medical procedure coding (e.g., CPT/HCPCS coding), modifiers and related information.
- Solid Understanding of health care terminology (e.g., diagnosis codes) and reimbursement systems (e.g., diagnosis-related groupers), hospital inpatient/outpatient departments and services.
- Familiarity with financial structures and reports including financial statements, chart of accounts, trial balance and revenue and usage.
- Experience developing presentations in MS PowerPoint.
- Two years’ prior experience using SQL programming language.
- Prior experience writing and running reports from NYC Health + Hospitals’ reporting platforms
- Five (5) prior years’ experience working in Budget, Reimbursement, Patient Accounting or other relevant financial activities.
- Familiarity with the clinical, billing, and business systems used at NYC Health + Hospitals.
- Expertise manipulating large databases in software applications (e.g., MS Excel, Access and SQL).
- Prior experience designing in report writing software, such as Crystal Reports, Tableau, or Oracle Reports.
- Ability to collaborate with a multi-department team.
- Ability to interact with health care providers and administrative personnel.
NYC Health and Hospitals offers a competitive benefits package that includes:
- Comprehensive Health Benefits for employees hired to work 20+ hrs. per week
- Retirement Savings and Pension Plans
- Loan Forgiveness Programs for eligible employees
- Paid Holidays and Vacation in accordance with employees' Collectively bargained contracts
- College tuition discounts and professional development opportunities
- Multiple employee discounts programs
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: $69,706.00 - $150,000.00 per year
Work Location: In person
