Charge Description Master, Analyst

November 6

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The University of Kansas Health System

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Healthcare Insurance • Education • Non-profit

The University of Kansas Health System is a comprehensive healthcare provider that partners with the University of Kansas Medical Center to offer top-tier medical services and education. It is recognized for its excellence in patient care, research, and education, with services ranging from urgent care to specialized cancer treatment at its NCI-designated cancer center. As a nonprofit organization, it relies on donations to provide high-quality healthcare to the community. Additionally, it offers a variety of educational opportunities through residency programs and fellowships, and emphasizes the importance of wellness and holistic health management for patients and professionals alike.

10,000+ employees

Founded 1998

⚕️ Healthcare Insurance

📚 Education

🤝 Non-profit

📋 Description

• Responsible for maintaining and optimizing the hospital's Charge Description Master to ensure accurate, compliant, and efficient billing processes. • Collaborates with clinical, coding and billing teams to review and update charge data, analyze financial impacts and ensure the integrity of the charge structure in accordance with regulatory standards and organizational policies. • Maintains all inpatient, outpatient and physician charge description documents to ensure that all items are a direct reflection of chargeable and billable services. • Initiates, coordinates, monitors, reviews, analyzes and implements requests to add, change or delete CDM items as appropriate. • Improves efficiency by eliminating duplicate, inactive or non-compliant charges, thus decreasing the potential for an inappropriate charge being utilized. • Research billing guidelines to maintain CDM compliance with Medicare and Medicaid standards. • Reviews and updates documents concerning procedural and coding changes and initiates action to update the hospital charge description master as necessary. • Performs data quality reviews on individual department charge descriptions to ensure compliance with all payer mandates and reporting requirements. • Performs CDM quality control and troubleshooting activities.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in business administration, finance, or a related field of study from an accredited college or university. • 3 or more years of experience in a charge description master or revenue integrity related position that provided broad based knowledge of hospital financial operations including reimbursement • Designated Epic training to be completed within 6 months of hire • Master's Degree in Business Administration, Finance or a related field of study from an accredited college or university. (Preferred) • 5 or more years Experience with medical billing and coding and/or CPC or CPC-A coding certification (Preferred) • Certified Public Accountant (CPA) - State Board of Accountancy (Preferred) • Certified Charge Capture Professional (CCCP) – AAPC/HFMA (Preferred)

🏖️ Benefits

• Health insurance • Retirement plans • Paid time off • Flexible work arrangements • Professional development