Director Patient Affordability Decision Support Systems
Director Patient Affordability Decision Support Systems
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Partners HealthCare is an Equal Opportunity Employer & by embracing diverse skills perspectives and ideas we choose to lead. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religious creed national origin sex age gender identity disability sexual orientation military service genetic information and/or other status protected under law.
The rising cost of health care is a dominant topic of conversation at the national and state level. It is also a key focus at Partners where understanding and managing costs is essential to providing high quality affordable care to our patients.
Reporting to the Corporate Director of SOMDS this role includes responsibility for managing both Partners system wide Patient Affordability efforts and is responsible for providing leadership strategic development and implementation direction and management of all aspects of the cost accounting and decision support system used by Partners Healthcare System (PHS).
This position is responsible for both Patient Affordability and implementing a system strategy that results in bending the cost curve achieved through encouraging collaboration throughout the organization. This position will provide financial and strategic expertise that facilitates these key endeavors while assuring that Partners continues to achieve the highest standards of patient care education and research. This person will manage a staff of 14 including three managers and their staff and the position works with and has exposure to senior leadership across the Partners HealthCare System.
Patient Affordability:
Identifying analyzing and developing enterprisewide strategies for cost management. Analyzes our cost structure educates senior leadership in understanding cost trends and drivers and recommends initiatives that will result in cost savings. Responsibilities include development and implementation of patient affordability efforts in close collaboration with our institutions and other corporate areas.
This position will lead system wide cost reduction efforts including managing external consultant assistance benchmarking our costs versus others to identify opportunities and measure results of initiatives.
The Director will and team will lead in;
Identifying opportunities by conducting analyses applying benchmarks and monitoring trends to understand the cost structure and support cost reduction efforts systemwide
Manage and/or collaborate with others on efforts to reduce cost
Keep abreast of trends locally and nationally and understands how Partners compares to and is impacted by those trends
Decision Support:
The Director develops and drives the administrative decision support system strategy that directly supports Patient Affordability and other reporting goals. The decision support system at Partners combines administrative financial and clinical information and is used widely across the system for reporting and analysis. A priority for the Director and everyone in the department is to be seen as cost experts for the organization. The Director and team members will:
Maintain the decision support system meeting deadlines for routine data processing reconciliation and auditing across multiple entities.
Develop and continually improve consistent costing assumptions and methodologies to support cost analyses across the system.
Provide actionable data to support teams in achieving initiative goals. This data also is fed into the enterprise data warehouse for system wide reporting and analysis.
Seek opportunities to improve administrative decision support for the organization including implementations for other business units and investigating other cost accounting capabilities.
Patient Affordability: Identification prioritization and implementation of cost management opportunities
Manage staff to ensure that the cost information used across Partners is as timely accurate and consistent as possible.
Collaborate with PHS entities and other users of decision support data to advance and enhance the understanding and use of the data to help inform business decisions and analyses.
Stay current on impending changes both internal and external to PHS. Assess and communicate to decision support customers the impact these changes may have on financial analyses and reporting. Ensure that DSS has a voice when decisions are made that may impact the consistency or integrity of decision support cost and other information.
Identify opportunities to further expand and improve cost analysis at other Partners entities including the implementation of cost accounting solutions across the spectrum of health care delivery settings.
Collaborate with the Business Intelligence Enterprise Data Warehouse team and IS Decision Support on the strategy to efficiently integrate shared data sources shared data shared users and shared uses of data common to both systems.
About Us
As a notforprofit organization Partners HealthCare is committed to supporting patient care research teaching and service to the community by leading innovation across our system. Founded by Brigham and Womens Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital Partners HealthCare supports a complete continuum of care including community and specialty hospitals a managed care organization a physician network community health centers home care and other healthrelated entities. Several of our hospitals are teaching affiliates of Harvard Medical School and our system is a national leader in biomedical research.
Were focused on a peoplefirst culture for our systems patients and our professional family. Thats why we provide our employees with more ways to achieve their potential. Partners HealthCare is committed to aligning our employees personal aspirations with projects that match their capabilities and creating a culture that empowers our managers to become trusted mentors. We support each member of our team to own their personal developmentand we recognize success at every step.
Our employees use the Partners HealthCare values to govern decisions actions and behaviors. These values guide how we get our work done: Patients Affordability Accountability & Service Commitment Decisiveness Innovation & Thoughtful Risk; and how we treat each other: Diversity & Inclusion Integrity & Respect Learning Continuous Improvement & Personal Growth Teamwork & Collaboration.
Were focused on a peoplefirst culture for our systems patients and our professional family. Thats why we provide our employees with more ways to achieve their potential. Partners HealthCare is committed to aligning our employees personal aspirations with projects that match their capabilities and creating a culture that empowers our managers to become trusted mentors. We support each member of our team to own their personal developmentand we recognize success at every step.
Our employees use the Partners HealthCare values to govern decisions actions and behaviors. These values guide how we get our work done: Patients Affordability Accountability & Service Commitment Decisiveness Innovation & Thoughtful Risk; and how we treat each other: Diversity & Inclusion Integrity & Respect Learning Continuous Improvement & Personal Growth Teamwork & Collaboration.
General Overview
The rising cost of health care is a dominant topic of conversation at the national and state level. It is also a key focus at Partners where understanding and managing costs is essential to providing high quality affordable care to our patients.
Reporting to the Corporate Director of SOMDS this role includes responsibility for managing both Partners system wide Patient Affordability efforts and is responsible for providing leadership strategic development and implementation direction and management of all aspects of the cost accounting and decision support system used by Partners Healthcare System (PHS).
This position is responsible for both Patient Affordability and implementing a system strategy that results in bending the cost curve achieved through encouraging collaboration throughout the organization. This position will provide financial and strategic expertise that facilitates these key endeavors while assuring that Partners continues to achieve the highest standards of patient care education and research. This person will manage a staff of 14 including three managers and their staff and the position works with and has exposure to senior leadership across the Partners HealthCare System.
Patient Affordability:
Identifying analyzing and developing enterprisewide strategies for cost management. Analyzes our cost structure educates senior leadership in understanding cost trends and drivers and recommends initiatives that will result in cost savings. Responsibilities include development and implementation of patient affordability efforts in close collaboration with our institutions and other corporate areas.
This position will lead system wide cost reduction efforts including managing external consultant assistance benchmarking our costs versus others to identify opportunities and measure results of initiatives.
The Director will and team will lead in;
Identifying opportunities by conducting analyses applying benchmarks and monitoring trends to understand the cost structure and support cost reduction efforts systemwide
Manage and/or collaborate with others on efforts to reduce cost
Keep abreast of trends locally and nationally and understands how Partners compares to and is impacted by those trends
Decision Support:
The Director develops and drives the administrative decision support system strategy that directly supports Patient Affordability and other reporting goals. The decision support system at Partners combines administrative financial and clinical information and is used widely across the system for reporting and analysis. A priority for the Director and everyone in the department is to be seen as cost experts for the organization. The Director and team members will:
Maintain the decision support system meeting deadlines for routine data processing reconciliation and auditing across multiple entities.
Develop and continually improve consistent costing assumptions and methodologies to support cost analyses across the system.
Provide actionable data to support teams in achieving initiative goals. This data also is fed into the enterprise data warehouse for system wide reporting and analysis.
Seek opportunities to improve administrative decision support for the organization including implementations for other business units and investigating other cost accounting capabilities.
Patient Affordability: Identification prioritization and implementation of cost management opportunities
- Leads the Patient Affordability Executive Committee under the Partners CFO guidance; Presents the business case for pursuing cost saving opportunities that leverage the scope of the system.
- Builds strong strategic alliances with finance department heads clinical staff and others in our institutions to effectively facilitate patient affordability efforts throughout the Partners system. Drives implementation of system wide initiatives leveraging local experts consultants and staff
- Works in concert with existing systemwide teams and processes; Drives the group and serves as key member on teams working on patient affordability initiatives e.g. . Perioperative Products and New Technology Committee
- Leverages system wide opportunities for reducing unit cost. Fosters collaboration between Partners Finance and entities to manage costs by identifying and adopting the most effective and economical quality process/products/services
- Identifies subject matter experts; then assists and supports them with data and intelligence as well as access to other tools (internal and external) to determine best practice and patient affordability opportunities
- Provides all constituents with information regarding ongoing cost management initiatives system wide as well as external trends and changes in the healthcare marketplace; some routine reporting as well as adhoc reporting
- Keeps current on cost trends in the health care industry that may influence processes identifies opportunities and shares that information with systemwide constituents on an ongoing basis; Provides best practice and benchmarking information
- Leverage staff effectively and build a strong team of analysts.
Manage staff to ensure that the cost information used across Partners is as timely accurate and consistent as possible.
Collaborate with PHS entities and other users of decision support data to advance and enhance the understanding and use of the data to help inform business decisions and analyses.
Stay current on impending changes both internal and external to PHS. Assess and communicate to decision support customers the impact these changes may have on financial analyses and reporting. Ensure that DSS has a voice when decisions are made that may impact the consistency or integrity of decision support cost and other information.
Identify opportunities to further expand and improve cost analysis at other Partners entities including the implementation of cost accounting solutions across the spectrum of health care delivery settings.
Collaborate with the Business Intelligence Enterprise Data Warehouse team and IS Decision Support on the strategy to efficiently integrate shared data sources shared data shared users and shared uses of data common to both systems.
- Requires Masters or equivalent in Business Administration Health Science or related discipline with progressively more responsible role in a diverse and operationally complex health care environment. 810 experience preferably in a complex health care organization
- Leadership skills / ConsultingProblem Solving Style: Ability to lead teams of direct and indirect reports. Ability to socialize and drive consensus of new PA/Decision Support concepts and strategies with the ability to deliver significant business results. Demonstrated ability to create strong working relationships with others particularly ability to influence people who do not have a direct reporting relationship. Ability to manage external consultants.
- Communication skills: Strong written and oral communication skills. Ability to present in front of small and large groups; both senior leadership and staff. Strong and diplomatic influence skills.
- Decision Support System: Experience with Allscripts EPSi or TSI system (or other administrative decision support system with cost accounting and patient reporting components)
- Benchmarking: Knowledge of Truven Action OI benchmarking system or other benchmarking systems preferred
- Microsoft Office skills: Strong understanding and applied knowledge of Word Excel Access PowerPoint; MS Project (or other). Ability to develop and deliver effective PowerPoint presentations.
- Financial acumen: A financial or operations background in a health care setting is required and/or understanding of clinical and back office health care operations. Ability to read and understand income statements and related budgets.
- Analytical capabilities: Ability to manage large volumes of data and translate data into information (e.g. statistical and trend analysis). Ability to gather synthesize and analyze data and draw logical conclusions
- Management Skills: Ability to lead the work of others successfully including ability to coach and teach staff and build teams to tackle cost efforts
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