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Senior Consultant, Healthcare Job Description
- Facilitating clinical documentation improvement initiatives and training to support appropriate reimbursement for the level of service rendered to all patients with a APR DRG based payer
- Preparing and presenting project deliverables and findings to senior project stakeholders and practice area leadership as required, through the use of graphs, tables, and other strategic information to summarize analyses and results
- Contributing to an innovative and team-oriented work environment with individual accountability and ownership to the success of the practice
- Committing to knowledge development and continuing to educate and share knowledge with clients and team members
- Building collaborative methods to develop and share internal reports with peers
- Leading workstreams on client projects, including stakeholder management, resourcing, and deliverable quality assurance
- Supporting proposal development, against RFPs and other client requirements
- Supporting proposition development based on our expertise and current client industry issues
- Supporting the development of thought leadership supporting analytics in HLS
- Supporting recruitment of further team members
- BA or BS degree in a healthcare-related field preferred
- 5+ yrs of professional management consulting experience with experience independently leading groups and project work plans
- Experience leading large projects, preferably in a consulting environment, developing work plans, coordinating resources to meet deadlines for deliverables, and tracking staff contributions
- Ability to succeed in a dynamic environment and produce deliverables within tight timeframes, under pressure
- Excellent oral, written and interpersonal skills with experience and comfort presenting professional briefs and presentations to senior level management, clients, and stakeholders
- Proficient with consulting and technical tools (MS Office Suite, analytics)
Senior Consultant, Healthcare Job Description
- Building a firm-wide network of HLS colleagues and Analytics colleagues
- Acting as a role model for peers and junior colleagues
- Provide training on ICD9, ICD10 coding and quality (HEDIS) as requested by Healthcare Advocates/Market Consultation team
- Participate in various courses (WebEx, live, self paced, LearnSource) to enhance skills as an “expert” consultant
- Deliver high-quality work within project teams under minimal supervision
- Lead tasks related to media relations, crisis communications, investor relations, content marketing, and communication campaign management
- Assist senior team members in developing new business initiatives
- Actively contribute to both internal and client meetings by offering strategic and creative insights
- Maintain a self-driven passion to stay abreast of client issues and related industry trends, participate in industry networking events and inform team leaders of potential new business opportunities
- Ad-hoc projects and responsibilities as assigned by supervisor
- Capability to succeed in a dynamic environment and produce multiple deliverables within tight timeframes
- Willingness to effectively build relationships throughout an organization and communicate with team members virtually and in-person
- Ability to train, teach and present solutions to clients and their staff, internally educate consulting staff
- Strong communication, presentation, business writing and professional skills, including being able to liaise with both technical and business contacts at our clients
- Sector specific expertise gained in Healthcare & Life Sciences (including large and medium pharma clients) either in industry or professional services
- Strong project management skills, with experience of leading several analytics projects or workstreams for clients
Senior Consultant, Healthcare Job Description
- Performing the day to day activities of the project as agreed with the Engagement Lead
- Work with Microsoft applications to complete data analysis and present summary findings
- Work with FTI tools and templates to assess, refine and enhance client processes
- Maintain detailed records of assumptions, methodologies and information sources during the completion of all analytical tasks
- Contribute to the development of client deliverables
- Work with health benchmarks derived from sources such as Model Hospital, Carter etc
- Support consulting engagements by managing project timeline and deliverables
- Facilitate discussions with and presentations to senior-level stakeholders (CIOs, CFOs, COOs, CEOs, Directors of HIM/RIM) for the purpose of educating them on best practices, guiding conversations around addressing gaps and improving the customer’s records and information management program effectiveness
- Build and maintain relationships with key customer executive stakeholders responsible for strategy and execution
- Evangelize key IG principles through speaking engagements, blogging and social media posts
- Project, time and personnel management skills
- Bachelor's degree/Undergraduate accounting or finance degree is required
- Designing, structuring and delivering data quality assessments
- Leading teams to execute high quality analysis of datasets
- Leading quality assurance efforts for components of research datasets / solutions overseen both initially and through construction and on an ongoing basis
- Clinical degree is required, , RN, BSN, or PA
Senior Consultant, Healthcare Job Description
- Evaluating design and operating effectiveness of process areas, including efficiency, effectiveness, and procedures to remediate risks and gaps
- Work with business and technical organizations to drive out program strategy and approach
- Work with Executive Sponsor and Business Owner of a Program, and other management as required, to achieve the Program objectives
- Acquire understanding of the business objectives for an assigned area
- Monitor, evaluate and report on Program status inclusive of scope, schedule, budget and alignment to Program and strategic goals
- Corrective action, as needed, to maintain the viability of the Program
- Preparing reports on findings and recommendations to senior management
- Reviewing deliverables, work papers, and other supporting process documentation for quality
- Development of business cases and feasibility studies
- Healthcare planning, including working with users to develop models of care, patient pathways, and clinical service descriptions
- Experience with provider risk contracts and ACO development strongly desired
- Track record of success in managing complex client relationships and leading teams
- Interest and aptitude in keeping abreast of latest developments in value based care strategy and contributing to the development of new tools and approaches
- A Masters level degree in healthcare or actuarial designation (ASA or FSA) strongly preferred
- Minimum of a Bachelor’s degree in Healthcare Administration or Healthcare Related Field
- 2+ years’ experience of healthcare revenue cycle experience
Senior Consultant, Healthcare Job Description
- The development of scopes and briefs for capital projects
- The development of non-clinical support services and facilities maintenance strategies and concepts of operations
- Scoping and leading business process improvement initiatives
- Development and implementation of transition plans
- Consult directly with clients (Hospitals, Health Systems, Ambulatory Centers, Clinics, ) to assess needs and opportunities
- Provide costing model design and implementation expertise, being an integral part of a team of professionals with deep technical expertise in cost accounting solutions
- Support the implementation of Soarian Financials cost accounting software
- Identify, assess and solve complex business integration challenges where analysis of situations or data requires an in-depth evaluation of variable factors
- Work interactively with clients and client team members to design, build, test and validate an effective cost accounting solution
- Train client personnel on new processes/systems
- Industry Certification a plus (HIM, ICD-10, Coding)
- Experience with workflow automation toolsets
- 5+ years of professional experience in a health care provider, health plan, or consulting setting (or 2+ years with MBA/MHA/equivalent master degree), which includes 5 years in clinical information systems operations with at least 1 lifecycle implementation of Cerner (Ambulatory, Rev Cycle or Clinical Documentation)
- Be familiar with research and analytic tools, such as persona, scenarios, mind mapping, experience journey, concept / product testing
- Be familiar with design trends, materials, engineering, manufacturing
- Proficiency with the Microsoft Office suite with advanced level skills in Excel preferred