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Review Vacancy

Date Posted 04/12/17

Applications Due04/27/17

Vacancy ID38307

AgencyMental Health, Office of

TitleAssociate Health Care Fiscal Analyst, Central Office;

Occupational CategoryFinancial, Accounting, Auditing

Salary Grade23

Bargaining UnitPS&T - Professional, Scientific, and Technical (PEF)

Salary RangeFrom $70438 to $89095 Annually

Employment Type Full-Time

Appointment Type Permanent

Jurisdictional Class Competitive Class

Travel Percentage 0%

Workweek Mon-Fri

Hours Per Week 37.5

Workday

From 8 AM

To 5 PM

Flextime allowed? No

Mandatory overtime? No

Compressed workweek allowed? No

Telecommuting allowed? No

County Albany

Street Address NYS Office of Mental Health

44 Holland Avenue

City Albany

StateNY

Zip Code12229

Minimum Qualifications Candidates must be employed by New York State to be eligible to apply for this position.

Candidates must have permanent status as an Associate Health Care Fiscal Analyst, Grade 23 and be eligible for lateral transfer; OR be eligible to transfer via Section 70.1 of the Civil Service Law. If you are unsure if your current title qualifies for transfer, you may contact OMHHRM@OMH.NY.GOV for a determination.

Duties Description The Office of Mental Health (OMH) is recruiting to fill an Associate Health Care Fiscal Analyst position in the Office of Financial Management, State Operations Finance Group, Bureau of Billing Operations. This position is critical in maintaining the core functions needed to collect $1.2 billion annually for the Office of Mental Health.

Duties include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Oversee, maintain, monitor and ensure the integrity of OMH billing system monthly bill runs. Resolve pended, denied and audited claims. Analyze services and recording statistics to identify unbilled visits and under-utilization of services. Audit and analyze data to ensure data accuracy and compliance with federal and state requirements and regulations;

• Coordinate activities to ensure that OMH attains its annual inpatient revenue target. Understand revenue targets in each assigned inpatient program and coordinate with billing analysts, ITS (Information Technology) billing system staff, and Central Revenue Operations to meet annual revenue objectives;

• Develop, coordinate, assist and implement new system enhancements, coordinate ongoing system maintenance and ensure systems quality control. Develop business specifications and implementation plans with ITS staff to realize OMH revenue initiatives.

• Ensure compliance with standards. HIPAA Electronic Data Interchange, Privacy, and Security standards, the Affordable Care Act and program compliance standards for the Medicare and Medicaid programs must be understood and followed. Update policy manuals and prepare policy and procedure memos for dissemination among central office and field office personnel.
• Develop and maintain professional relationships with business partner liaisons within OMH such as facility medical records staff and Patient Resource Office staff as well as external business partners such as ITS billing system staff, Medicare and Medicaid intermediaries, Department of Health agency staff and Health Home organization staff;

• Prepare ad-hoc analysis and reports. Analysis includes billing, receivables, census, patient visits, etc. using data warehouse/Oracle database, ACCESS, EXCEL and other applications to prepare requests by bureau management;

• May supervise subordinate staff by directing and assigning duties, providing support and guidance, and monitoring and evaluating employee performance to improve individual and group productivity;

Some positions may require additional credentials or a background check to verify your identity.

Name Sarah Mahar

Telephone

Fax 518-486-3897

Email Address OMHHRM@OMH.NY.GOV

Address

Street NYS Office of Mental Health

44 Holland Avenue

City Albany

State NY

Zip Code 12229

 

Notes on ApplyingTo be considered for this position, interested candidates should email a cover letter and resume in Microsoft Word or PDF format to omhhrm@omh.ny.gov. Please include the title of the position and Vacancy ID #38307 in the subject line of your email when applying.

You are advised that, should you accept a job offer with the Office of Mental Health, you may be required to be fingerprinted and pay a fingerprint fee.

Pursuant to Executive Order 161, no State entity, as defined by the Executive Order, is permitted to ask, or mandate, in any form, that an applicant for employment provide his or her current compensation, or any prior compensation history, until such time as the applicant is extended a conditional offer of employment with compensation. If such information has been requested from you before such time, please contact the Governor’s Office of Employee Relations at (518) 474-6988 or via email at info@goer.ny.gov.

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