HB Coding Strategic Data Analyst (Remote - Must reside in IL, IN, IA, MO, or WI)

The HB Coding Strategic Data Analyst role exists to transform complex coding into actionable insights that drive performance, compliance, and strategic decision-making across Northwestern Medicine's Hospital Billing Coding operations. The position serves as a critical link between data, technology, and operational leadership by providing meaningful analysis and reporting that supports efficient workflows, revenue cycle performance, coding quality, productivity, and organizational goals.

Through the development and management of reports, dashboards, performance metrics, and analytics, this role enables coding leadership to identify outpatient trends, measure outcomes, evaluate operational effectiveness, and make informed decisions that improve financial performance, and coding accuracy. The HB Coding Strategic Data Analyst supports Coding leadership, ensuring leaders have the data and insights needed to manage resources, prioritize initiatives, and plan for future organizational needs. 

Additionally, the position fosters collaboration among key stakeholders to support reporting, workflow optimization, technology enhancements, and process improvement initiatives. By leveraging data analytics, Epic, and other reporting tools, the HB Coding Strategic Data Analyst helps advance operational excellence, support organizational growth, and contribute to Northwestern Medicine's commitment to high-quality patient care and financial stewardship.

This position is 100% remote

Responsibilities:          

• Serves as the primary analytics resource for Coding Leadership transforming coding, revenue cycle, operational, and financial data into actionable insights that support strategic and operational decision-making.
• Develop, maintain, and enhance dashboards, scorecards, key performance indicators (KPIs), routine reports, and ad hoc analyses related to productivity, quality, accounts receivable, budgets, vendor performance, and workflow outcomes on a daily, weekly, monthly, and fiscal-year cadence.
• Analyze coding and revenue cycle data to identify trends, risks, variances, and improvement opportunities, and provide actionable recommendations to leadership and operational teams.
• Translate complex analytical findings into clear reports, presentations, and visualizations that communicate performance results, risks, opportunities, and recommendations to stakeholders.
• Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to resolve issues, support reporting needs, and achieve organizational objectives.
• Utilize Epic, computer-assisted coding (CAC) technology, Power BI, Microsoft applications, and reporting tools to evaluate system functionality, validate business requirements, coordinates user acceptance testing, post-implementation validation, and optimize operational performance.
• Coordinate coding technology activities by documenting workflows, supporting upgrades and troubleshooting efforts, managing IS ticket documentation and status reporting, and serving as a subject matter expert for Epic and CAC workflows.
• Lead and support reporting, technology, and continuous improvement initiatives by applying project management principles, strengthening data integrity, documenting requirements and decisions, and streamlining departmental workflows.

Additional Functions

• Other duties as assigned