Diligent, articulate, and competent individual with over 11 years of pioneering experience as a Business Analyst/Data Analyst in the health care insurance domain.
Highly analytical business analyst with a background in identifying business needs and determining solutions to business problems. Qualified Business Intelligence Analyst, versed in data mapping and user acceptance testing, to solve complex problems in high-pressure environments. Strong skills in data analysis, project management, and strategic planning, coupled with the ability to communicate effectively with stakeholders at all levels.
Highly skilled Data Analyst with comprehensive experience, equipped with analytics and reporting expertise to provide insights using a data-driven philosophy and predictive modeling techniques, contributes to robust decision-making processes. Demonstrated ability to streamline operations by identifying trends, and improving data reporting efficiency.
Overview
15
15
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Business Analyst/Data Analyst
Optum Global Advantage
Hyderabad
10.2013 - Current
Ensuring data-driven solutions through effective analysis for engagement with solution partners.
Analyzed and tracked data to prepare forecasts and identify trends.
Identified opportunities for cost savings through process automation initiatives.
Prepared business proposals and presentations for various stakeholders.
Leading sizing, sampling, solution testing, and reporting.
Ideation analysis on the top providers' trends to identify any leakage or root cause analysis in order to fix the issue.
Collaborating with stakeholders across all platforms and lines of business is required.
Reviewing all non-clinical overpayments and developing opportunities to prevent ongoing overpayments, thereby reducing provider abrasion.
Identifying potential concepts for retrospective saving to prepay, and further stages in the claim life cycle in the form of avoidance, automation, and manual prevention.
Analysis of overpayment/claim paid data, sizing of Shift Left opportunity, and socialization of ideas with different payment integrity solutioning teams.
Examine, assess, and document business operations and procedures to ensure operational efficiency and excellence.
Ensure adherence to state and federal compliance and reimbursement policies.
Work with stakeholders to design the roadmap and measure production values, ensuring a cost-efficient process.
Developed dashboards with Tableau to monitor key performance indicators.
Leveraged SQL queries to extract, transform and load data into databases.
Analyzed financial reporting in Power BI to find millions of savings from ineffective vendors.
Identified net cost-savings opportunities of over $2 million through a network coverage options audit.
Conducted SQL database queries for test data readiness.
Excellent knowledge of HIPAA standards, EDI (Electronic Data Interchange), and knowledge of HIPAA code sets, ICD-9, ICD-10 coding, and HL7.
Gathered business requirements by interacting with the agents, Medicare users, business users, and SMEs.
E-Support Officer (Chat)
Knoah Solutions Pvt, Ltd.
Hyderabad
03.2012 - 09.2013
Worked as an E-Support Officer via chat support and provided support to the customers electronic health records to code medical claims and examine insurance claims.
Promoted high customer satisfaction by resolving problems with knowledgeable and friendly service.
Handled escalated customer complaints promptly and professionally.
Enhanced productivity and customer service levels by anticipating needs and delivering outstanding support.
Resolved complex and escalated support issues.
Exceeded established service goals while leveraging customer service, sales and employee management best practices.
Evaluated performance of support staff and provided coaching to improve performance.
Identified potential issues before they became problems by monitoring customer accounts closely.
Handled advocate queries in an efficient, timely, and professional manner, consistent with regards to general claims support, by reviewing, researching, investigating, processing, and adjusting claims.
Assessing existing coverage and aligning new health insurance options with clients' health needs to calculate quotes and educate potential clients on insurance options.
Resolve provider inquiries about payment or denied claims in quick, creative actions.
Treat providers like partners, not a policy.
Supported team members to meet desired performance standards for a given process or account.
Provided the highest levels of customer service by responding within the given timelines.
Senior Associate for Email Process/Chat (Airline Process)
Wipro BPO Pvt Ltd.
Pune
12.2009 - 04.2012
Served as Senior Claims Associate for Email Process/Chat (Healthcare Process) and provided high-quality customer service and support in a variety of areas, including client medical history, medical information, symptoms, and allergies.
The Customer Agent provides one contact resolution, collaborating with the provider and engaging a support specialist for more complex issues.
Empowering the call agents to make decisions and provide rapid issue resolution; commitment and follow-up, AHT, claim overrides, link access, claim adjustments, and support.
Measuring success through the remediation of provider pain points, as seen in our NPS surveys across the providers' journey.
As a part of the Provider Advocacy Centre, we will ensure to support our Provider Service Advocates with our providers calling in about different claims questions via group chat.
Maintained responsibility for all inquiries, concerns and complaints, resolving matters effectively and to satisfaction of customers.
Education
BSc - MSCS
St. Joseph’s Degree College, S.K. University
Anantapur, Kurnool
01.2008
HSC -
Sri Lakshmi Junior College
Kurnool
01.2005
SSC -
Sri Lakshmi High School
Kurnool
01.2003
Skills
SQL Proficiency
Skilled in Power BI Reporting
Process Mapping
UAT
Microsoft Azure
Project Management
Data Mining and Analytics
Health Care Regulatory Standards
Insurance Reimbursement Policies
Health care billing standards
Windows XP Proficiency
C
C
Microsoft Office Proficiency
Stakeholder management
Database management
Data visualization
Data analysis
Stakeholder engagement
Project management
Business process mapping
SQL proficiency
User acceptance testing
Cost-benefit analysis
Projects
Shift Left Project: (Jan'23 to Oct'24)
Conducted comprehensive stakeholder analysis and requirements gathering for a Shift left project, resulting in a seamless transition with overpayment savings worth of $5M.
Collaborated with IT teams to develop a custom business intelligence dashboard, providing real-time insights that improved executive decision-making speed by 40%.
Conducted a comprehensive review of existing business processes, identifying and implementing improvements that resulted in a 20% reduction in operational costs and a 15% increase in employee satisfaction.
Growth: Increased Affordability savings as Recovery loss mitigated, Deliver Avoidance & Prevention solutions, i.e; ACE, Frictionless Platform, Claims Editing System. Enhance CES to allow future shift left requirements.
Optimization: Organizational redesign via transition of existing retrospective inventory to prospective & automated solutions. Develop process to remove duplicate claim review between Pre-Pay Clinical and Post-Pay Non-Clinical.
Transformation: Workforce efficiencies through prevention and avoidance of defective claims. Advanced shiftleft/avoidance identification process including Provider, System and manual opportunities. Non-clinical PI solutions for prepay & prevention given lower cost per claim.
ARO No offset: (Oct'24 to Till date)
Developed and implemented an RPA Center of Excellence (CoE), establishing governance frameworks and best practices that accelerated bot development cycle time by 35% and increased ROI on automation initiatives by 25%.
As of August 2024, there are 648 entities with contractual language prohibiting or limiting offsets; 17 of these entities account for ~85% of these overpayments.
Our affordability initiative aimed at recovering overpayments from those 17 entities.
PI, PEx, and UHN partnered to engage the providers and determine the most optimal path to recover overpayments while preserving the provider relationships.
Post Graduate Diploma in Computer Application (PGDCA)
Aviva Insurance Certificate
AHIP 2020 Certification
Foundational - CPD Program - 2020
M&R Certified Practitioner
First Pass Claims- Foundational from Domain University
SQL & MS Azure training completed for 3 months.
Hobbies and Interests
Travelling
Music
Reading
Networking
Accomplishments
$2.8 M worth of overpayments identified on the SAM New edit (DME during IP Stay) solution despite of being approved only for $640K.
URN claims were excluded from SAM Edit Bot as 269 was capturing under denial reason code instead of review codes, identified the root cause and fix the issue in pre-exclusion logic from SAM worth of $16M of overpayments.
$3.5 M worth of overpayments identified and loaded to ODAR in just 2 months soon I Joined as Business/Data Analyst in Data Mining team under Competitive intelligence team.
Honored as Global Service Heroes’2019 and nominated to attend the Global Service Heroes event summit, organized in Singapore’2020.
Awarded consecutively 3 times for Quarter SME Award.
Recognized by the onshore team for good customer interaction on chat support (New Advocacy project) & rewarded with 450 Bravo points.
Awarded by Bruce Thompson (Chairman- Optum) for Above & Beyond performance.
Recipient of Bright Idea Award to implement an idea that saved the cost by $13M for the company.
Acknowledged as a consistent top performer for 4 Months (Jan-April) in the team for 2015 in UHG.
Awarded by TEAM COACH of Month for One Month, and Rep of Week multiple times in WIPRO
Attributes
Exceptional Leadership
Innate Problem-solver
Unwavering Professionalism
Impeccable Communication
Languages
English
Professional
Hindi
Professional
Timeline
Business Analyst/Data Analyst
Optum Global Advantage
10.2013 - Current
E-Support Officer (Chat)
Knoah Solutions Pvt, Ltd.
03.2012 - 09.2013
Senior Associate for Email Process/Chat (Airline Process)
Sr. Customer Service Representative/Western & SW/O at Optum Global AdvantageSr. Customer Service Representative/Western & SW/O at Optum Global Advantage