Mercy Iowa City is actively seeking a full-time Quality Management Analyst to join our team!

Benefits include two health insurance options administered by Wellmark Blue Cross Blue Shield - a traditional plan or a high deductible plan with a generous HSA match and multiple plan options - dental, vision, long term disability and life insurance, as well as voluntary insurance options, 401(k) plan with employer match, colleague discounts, free, covered parking, and more!

Pay Range: $57,241.60 - $85,737.60 annually

Your starting compensation will be directly based upon years of relevant experience to the position. We will give you full credit for each year of past experience you have.

Job Responsibilities

To provide technical and analytical support for utilization management and quality improvement activities, including medical staff and support service monitoring activities.

Job Duties

• As assigned, retrieves, organizes, displays, and records for profile analysis and trends, data for medical staff and ancillary service patient care monitoring activities; provides technical assistance in establishing criteria and designing quality improvement monitors; assists in monitoring and follow-up studies of quality improvement.
• Attends committee meetings and represents Quality Management Services, as assigned.
• Communicates with other health providers to complete variation analyses to identify adverse patient occurrences; sets up variation analysis meetings.
• Coordinates and schedules quality improvement subcommittee meetings and maintains minutes and supportive data.
• Collaborates with individual units or departments in development, analysis and reporting performance improvement activities.
• Coordinates data collection, input, validation, and support dissemination and reporting of data maintained through selected departmental information systems.
• Identifies principal diagnosis, additional diagnoses, and procedures and assign ICD-10 codes concurrently on inpatient admissions for concurrent DRG assignment.
• Reviews medical records both concurrently and retrospectively as assigned, to identifies variations from predetermined quality of care screening criteria; and to document identified variations and prepare variation charts for internal and external physician review.
• Provides backup to other members of Quality department related to data collections, review, analysis and other duties as deemed appropriate by the department leads.