Medical Assistance Specialist 3 - 61607

Minimum Qualifications Current Department of Health (DOH) employee with permanent or contingent-permanent status as a Medical Assistance Specialist 3;

OR current NYS employee with one year or more of permanent or contingent-permanent, competitive service in a title eligible to transfer under Section 52.

6 or Section 70.1 of the Civil Service Law to a Medical Assistance Specialist 3. For more information on the types of transfers, transfer eligibility criteria, and the current transfer determinations for your title, visit the following website.

Preferred Qualifications : Critical thinking skills, analytical skills with Microsoft Excel, ability to solve problems independently.

Professional work experience and / or education in accounting and and trend analyses.

Duties Description This incumbent will function as a financial team lead within the Division of Finance and Rate Setting, within the Bureau of Financially Distressed Hospitals (FDH).

The Bureau of Financially Distressed Hospitals Bureau’s goal is to promote financial sustainability for healthcare providers, thereby improving health service quality, preserving access, and decreasing statewide provider reliance on State aid to fund operations.

In addition, this Bureau works directly with hospitals on their cash flow, hospital needs, and various payment mechanisms, including Directed Payment Templates (DPT), Vital Access Program (VAP) funding, and Vital Access Provider Assurance Program (VAPAP) awards.

Duties Include :

• Organize hospital data to determine hospital financial allocation plans and develop funding options; Establish hospital metrics for demonstrating improvement, and monitoring data reported against those metrics;
• Manage a distressed hospital dashboard to ensure an accurate and complete view of hospital submitted data elements; Oversee the monitoring and oversight of hospital metrics and financial management of funding allocations;
• Facilitate the integration of hospital reporting with other Medicaid and Department of Health data to assess regional and / or hospital specific trends as well population health activities;

Review FDH applications and financial sustainability plans.

Build automated reports in Tableau that organize FDH information (cash flows, revenues, expenses, utilization, to translate data into meaningful reports that can assist stakeholders in transformation planning purposes;

Supervises a Team of two Units of Medical Assistance Specialists 2 and 1; Assists higher-level staff with oversight of FDH operations by supervising the work of FDH Data & Analytics Units.

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