The Application Analyst supports the administration, configuration, and maintenance of the athenaCollector billing platform to ensure effective revenue cycle operations. This role serves as a primary point of contact for troubleshooting incidents, managing system tables, and coordinating workflow improvements across clinical and operational departments.
Under the general supervision of the Manager of IS Applications, the Application Analyst supports the delivery, administration, and ongoing maintenance of the athenaCollector billing and practice management platform across ambulatory departments and specialties. This role works with revenue cycle, operational, clinical, technical, and vendor teams to maintain accurate system configuration, resolve application issues, and support workflows that contribute to timely billing, compliant claim submission, and effective business operations.
The Application Analyst serves as a primary point of contact for assigned application support and configuration activities. Responsibilities include managing administrative tables and billing settings, supporting provider and department onboarding and offboarding, troubleshooting incidents and service requests, assisting with testing and system changes, and coordinating issue resolution across production and implementation environments.
Compensation
Pay: $x68,640-$106,240 annually. Compensation depends on location, qualifications, and experience.
Management level positions may be eligible for sign-on and relocation bonuses.
Benefits
The following benefits are available, subject to employment status:
Medical, dental, vision, disability, AD&D and life insurance.
Paid time off (vacation & sick leave).
Discretionary 401k match.
10 paid holidays per year.
Health savings accounts, healthcare & dependent flexible spending accounts.
Voluntary benefits include pet insurance, legal insurance, accident and critical illness insurance, long term care, elder & childcare, auto & home insurance.
For Colorado employees, paid leave in accordance with Colorado’s Healthy Families and Workplaces Act is available.
Responsibilities
Organize and manage daily operational activities for athenaCollector, including application monitoring, configuration, troubleshooting, and issue resolution
Serve as a primary point of contact for customer requests, incidents, and application support, providing timely status updates and clear communication
Configure and maintain athenaCollector administrative tables, including medical groups, providers, departments, insurance packages, fee schedules, allowable schedules, contracted rates, and related billing settings
Support provider and department onboarding, offboarding, and configuration changes to help ensure providers and locations are operationally ready for scheduled go-live dates
Create, update, test, and implement application dictionaries, tables, claim rules, billing rules, and workflow configurations in accordance with approved business requirements
Investigate and resolve claim, payment, denial, remittance, unpostable, accounts receivable, and patient balance workflow issues that require client review or action
Assist with maintaining accurate charge, fee, and contracted-rate information and coordinate periodic updates across athenaCollector and connected systems
Support claim submission and denial-prevention workflows by reviewing system holds, edits, payer requirements, attachments, coding-related issues, and required documentation
Coordinate resolution of payment posting, remittance, credit balance, underpayment, zero-pay, and unapplied-credit issues with revenue cycle teams and athenahealth
Assist with payer enrollment, provider number, department, insurance package, and credentialing-related configuration issues that affect claim processing
Monitor interfaces, integrations, and inbound or outbound transactions; troubleshoot routing or data issues and engage the appropriate technical or vendor teams
Communicate and collaborate with revenue cycle teams, application teams, business owners, market leadership, end users, vendors, and other support partners
Participate in application testing, release readiness, upgrades, implementations, workflow improvements, and adoption of consistent practices across the organization
Document system configurations, support procedures, decisions, issue resolutions, and user guidance in accordance with organizational standards
Provide application education, knowledge transfer, and support to end users, facility staff, providers, and internal support teams as needed
Participate in a rotating on-call support schedule shared among application analysts
Perform other duties as assigned
Qualifications
Strong customer service orientation with the ability to communicate clearly with technical and non-technical stakeholders
Working knowledge of healthcare billing, practice management, revenue cycle, provider, department, charge, claim, payment, remittance, denial, and accounts receivable workflows
Strong analytical, organizational, interpersonal, and problem-solving skills
Ability to investigate application issues, identify root causes, coordinate resolution, and communicate risks or dependencies
Ability to work independently while collaborating effectively across technical, operational, vendor, and revenue cycle teams
Ability to manage multiple priorities and meet deadlines in a changing healthcare environment
Effective written and verbal communication skills with attention to documentation and follow-through
Experience supporting locally hosted or web-based business applications
Experience supporting healthcare billing, practice management, revenue cycle, or related healthcare applications
Demonstrated ability to diagnose and resolve business and technical issues
Understanding of application configuration, system components, data interfaces, and integrated workflows
Ability to work directly with customers, vendors, internal technology teams, and business partners
Up to 20% travel required, selected candidate will be required to pass a Motor Vehicle Records check
Preferred Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree preferred
Experience supporting athenaCollector or athenaOne
Experience with provider and department configuration, fee and allowable schedules, claim rules, denial workflows, payment posting, or payer enrollment
Experience supporting ambulatory operations or enterprise revenue cycle workflows in a healthcare environment
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