Full-Time
Financial Analyst
Essen Health Care
501-1,000 employees
Multi-site primary and specialty care network
Compensation Overview
$68k - $70k/yr
Bronx, NY, USA
Hybrid
Bachelor's, MBA
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- A bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration, or a related field.
- At least 2 years of finance or accounting experience in healthcare, Medicaid, managed care, or nonprofit human services finance.
- Experience with medical billing or claims, payer reconciliation, or fee-for-service reimbursement models.
- Strong accounts payable, accounts receivable, and reconciliation skills, with advanced Excel proficiency.
- Experience with accounting software such as QuickBooks, Sage Intacct, or NetSuite, and the ability to learn referral or billing platforms such as Unite Us or similar Social Care Network IT platforms.
- Knowledge of internal controls and audit-ready documentation.
- Ability to interpret contracts, fee schedules, and program manuals and translate them into billing and payment practices.
- Ability to communicate across program, IT, compliance, Lead Entity, and vendor stakeholders.
- Oversee end-to-end billing and claims submission for reimbursable Social Care Network services, including HRSN screenings, eligibility assessments, social care navigation, and enhanced nutrition services.
- Ensure services are documented and billed according to Social Care Network Lead Entity IT platform requirements, regional HRSN fee schedules, and closed-loop referral documentation standards.
- Track claim status, resolve denials and rejections, manage resubmissions, and minimize revenue leakage.
- Monitor units of service delivered against authorized referrals and contract caps.
- Reconcile remittances from each Social Care Network Lead Entity against services delivered, submitted claims, and contracted rates, and resolve payment discrepancies.
- Maintain aging reports for outstanding Lead Entity receivables and escalate delayed payments according to contract terms.
- Serve as the primary financial point of contact with Lead Entity finance and billing teams.
- Prepare monthly revenue reconciliation reports by Lead Entity, service line, and program.
- Manage the accounts payable cycle for food service subcontractors by validating invoices against delivery confirmations, member eligibility, referral authorizations, and contracted per-unit rates.
- Ensure timely and accurate subcontractor payments consistent with subcontract terms and pass-through requirements.
- Reconcile subcontractor invoices against Lead Entity reimbursements to protect program margin and flag variances.
- Maintain vendor files, W-9s, subcontract agreements, rate schedules, and payment records for audit readiness.
- Develop and manage program budgets for 1115 waiver-funded activities and produce monthly budget-to-actual variance analysis.
- Prepare financial reports required by Lead Entities, the New York State Department of Health, and funders, and support cost reporting and required attestations.
- Maintain internal controls, segregation of duties, and documentation standards for Medicaid program integrity reviews and OMIG audits.
- Ensure compliance with Medicaid good-standing requirements, HIPAA in coordination with compliance staff, and applicable federal and state grant and waiver rules.
- Support annual audits, single audits when applicable, and funder monitoring visits.
- Manage cash-flow forecasting across a reimbursement-based revenue model with multiple payers and vendors.
- Improve and document finance workflows connecting the Social Care Network IT/referral platform, billing, accounting, and accounts payable systems.
- Supervise finance and billing support staff as assigned and train program staff on documentation practices affecting reimbursement.
- Advise leadership on financial sustainability, service-line profitability, and new Social Care Network contract opportunities.
- Experience implementing, integrating, or administering financial, billing, or data systems.
- Expert-level Excel skills, including advanced formulas, pivot tables, Power Query, data modeling, and automation.
- Experience managing subcontractor or vendor payment arrangements or pass-through funding.
- A Master of Business Administration is preferred.
Esssen Health Care is a multi-site, integrated healthcare network in New York that delivers primary, urgent, and specialty care, as well as house calls, care management, and nursing home staffing. It serves underserved communities and uses a population health model with value-based payments, including an Accountable Care Organization (ACO). Its EssenMED House Calls program brings primary care and selected specialties directly to patients’ homes, making care more accessible. The network operates across the Bronx, Brooklyn, and Queens with over 350 providers and ties in remote patient monitoring and employer health services. A key differentiator is its home-based care delivery and its program to hire and train international medical graduates to enter the U.S. healthcare system. Its goal is to improve access to high-quality care for Medicaid populations and other underserved patients while controlling costs through coordinated, preventive care and chronic disease management.
Company Size
501-1,000
Company Stage
N/A
Total Funding
N/A
Headquarters
New York City, New York
Founded
1999
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- Kain Capital's April 2024 investment funds new clinics and value-based care expansion.
- 2025 CMS GUIDE selection and OwnaHealth partnership deepen dementia, diabetes, and obesity programs.
- 2026 launches of RADIN Health and Bronx imaging centers improve capture and retention.
What critics are saying
- March 2023 breach triggered a $4 million settlement, with 907,782 patients affected.
- Cybersecurity remediation follows final approval in July 2026; another breach threatens trust and referrals.
- Heavy Bronx Medicaid exposure ties margins to New York rate pressure and CMS payment changes.
What makes Essen Health Care unique
- Essen combines primary care, urgent care, specialty care, house calls, and nursing-home staffing.
- Its Bronx footprint reaches 16% of residents, giving unmatched local patient density.
- House Calls and 450-plus providers create sticky access for Medicaid-heavy, homebound patients.
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↑ 20%Building Popai together: bringing AI to the heart of patient engagement. At Team8, we believe the future of healthcare will be built on trust and data as the basis for infrastructure and technology that empowers, not burdens, clinical teams. That belief led us to help build Popai Health, which has just announced an $11 million round led by Team8, NEA, Essen Health Care, and other strategic partners. Popai is building the foundational platform for 'Patient Phone Conversation Intelligence': transforming phone call interactions between care teams and patients into real-time clinical and operational insight. Where voice meets value: A new chapter for care management. The shift to value-based care has become a defining movement in healthcare. It promises to raise care quality while lowering cost. But while the thesis is strong, the execution remains deeply challenging. In the domain of Care management under value-based care, massive data processing, continuous decision-making, and scalable patient engagement is required. The reality on the ground is still manual, fragmented, and labor-intensive. But where do most patient interactions happen? In care management, over the phone. Over 15 million patient calls take place daily in the United States, and most of them contain critical information that is untapped and unanalyzed. These conversations contain the most immediate signals of risk, need, and opportunity among patients. Yet, in most healthcare systems, they disappear into the void, leaving clinical teams overwhelmed and patients underserved. What's missing in the shift to data-driven care. Modern healthcare runs on data. Electronic health records capture results and outcomes, but not the decision journey. Structured forms miss patient narratives. Natural language processing can transcribe, but understanding meaning, context, and intent requires a purpose-built layer. However, it overlooks the most human data source of all, conversation. This is where Popai's AI comes in. Voice interactions are clinically rich, capturing diagnostic reasoning, uncertainty, and decision-making nuance. They are contextually deep, revealing the messy realities of social determinants, behavioral triggers, and patient priorities. They are operationally critical, driving triage, scheduling, escalation, and follow-up workflows. Turning dialogue into clinical intelligence. Popai's platform analyzes every second of a care management call, turning unstructured dialogue into insight. It goes further than documentation; It understands. By embedding healthcare-trained AI directly into phone-based workflows, Popai can auto-generate compliant summaries, extract actionable clinical and operational signals, trigger downstream workflows in real time, and reduce the documentation burden for clinicians by 20 percent or more while maintaining healthcare-grade security and HIPAA compliance. The platform is already implemented at leading organizations like Essen Healthcare and Clover Health, where it analyzes more than 18 million minutes of patient conversations. Building for the future: infrastructure that listens and learns. Healthcare is undergoing a similar kind of transformation that enterprise IT faced a decade ago: a shift from static records to dynamic interaction streams. Just as MongoDB and Snowflake emerged to handle data complexity, Popai is building the first infrastructure layer purpose-built for clinical conversation. * Capture includes multi-party voice, overlapping dialogue, and ambient context. * Privacy requires context-aware de-identification and compliance. * Storage that supports queryable, schema-flexible conversation archives. * Analysis that detects intent, surface clinical reasoning, and trigger workflows. * Integration into care management systems and population health tools. Founder-Market fit: why this team, why now. When we met Eyal Gurion, Popai's Co-Founder and CEO, his clarity on the problem was immediate. Eyal previously led value-based care enablement at Elevance Health and had experienced firsthand the implementation gap between value-based ambition and care team capability. Joining forces with him were his co-founders, Chief Product Officer Michael Latar and Chief Technology Officer Elad Levy. Both bring years of experience from Aidoc, one of the most advanced clinical AI companies, achieving unprecedented FDA clearance on their AI capabilities. At Aidoc, Michael led the AI product platform, while Elad oversaw delivery and engineering for mission-critical healthcare infrastructure. Their combined expertise in product strategy, AI infrastructure, and provider-facing deployment is exactly what it takes to build a company like Popai. A voice-first data layer: the next strategic frontier in health. Voice is not just another dataset. It is the most real-time, expressive, and underutilized source of patient intelligence in the system. Popai is turning that blind spot into a strategic advantage. By owning the infrastructure for phone-based care engagement, they are unlocking entirely new capabilities in risk detection, patient engagement, population health, and real-world evidence. And critically, they are doing it without adding burden to care teams. This is what high-leverage AI looks like: workflow embedded, intelligent, and invisible. The Team8 thesis in action. Popai is the embodiment of what we aim to build at Team8 Health. A meaningful mission, with real impact on reducing administrative burden, improving patient experience and optimizing care delivery. A technical edge, based on proprietary infrastructure, not just user interface. A high-caliber team, with founder-market fit and repeat product leaders. A market pull, with early adoption by serious players. As we outlined in our broader research on Voice and AI in healthcare, conversations are the goldmine of clinical intelligence, but only if we build the right tools to mine them. Popai is doing just that.
Essen Health Care opens a state-of-the-art heart and Imaging Center in the Bronx. Essen Health Care, one of the Bronx's largest community-based medical networks, has opened a brand-new cardiovascular and diagnostic imaging center at 2601 Halperin Avenue - a major step forward in expanding access to advanced heart care for local residents. For more than 25 years, Essen Health Care has served the Bronx with a mission to make quality, comprehensive care accessible and convenient. The new center continues that promise by offering cardiology, vascular care, and diagnostic imaging all under one roof - so patients can get the specialized services they need without leaving their neighborhood. Bringing advanced heart care home. "Heart disease remains one of the leading health challenges in our community," said Dr. Katsa, Medical Director at Essen Health Care. "This new center helps patients detect, treat, and manage heart conditions earlier and more effectively." Among the center's highlights is the addition of Coronary CT Angiography (CCTA) - a non-invasive, cutting-edge test that allows doctors to view the heart's arteries in remarkable detail. The technology provides faster diagnoses, lower radiation exposure, and earlier detection of disease - tools that can quite literally save lives. Comprehensive, connected care. Essen's integrated approach extends beyond heart imaging. The new location includes vascular and podiatry services, allowing doctors to identify early warning signs of heart disease, such as poor leg circulation or Peripheral Artery Disease (PAD), and treat them before they become more serious. Access and convenience. Patients can expect same-day appointments, walk-in availability, and coordinated care between specialists. "We don't want anyone to delay getting their heart checked," Dr. Katsa added. "When it comes to your heart, every moment counts." The grand opening celebration will take place on October 22, 2025, from 5 to 8 PM, featuring music, refreshments, and guided tours of the new space. Essen Health Care's new Cardiovascular and Diagnostic Imaging Center | 2601 Halperin Avenue, Bronx, NY 10461 | Grand Opening: October 22, 2025, 5 - 8 PM | Learn more at essenhealthcare.com Sponsored content disclaimer: The information and advice displayed in this story are those of individual sponsors and guests and not Nexstar Media Group, Inc.
BRONX, N.Y., Feb. 18, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Essen Health Care, a leading multi-specialty healthcare provider committed to advancing health equity, has announced a groundbreaking partnership with OwnaHealth, an innovative healthcare organization dedicated to reducing the impact of diabetes and obesity through personalized lifestyle and nutrition adjustments. This collaboration aims to improve health outcomes for Essen Health Care's patients throughout the Bronx and and other underserved populations across New York City
Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) Model Aims to Increase Care Coordination and Support for CaregiversBRONX, N.Y., Jan. 27, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Essen Health Care is proud to announce its selection by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to participate in the groundbreaking Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) Model, a new Medicare alternative payment model. This initiative is designed to enhance care coordination and provide crucial support to people living with dementia and their caregivers.Under the GUIDE Model, Essen Health Care joins nearly 400 participants nationwide in developing Dementia Care Programs (DCPs) aimed at improving access to essential services and support, including respite care. This model empowers caregivers and strengthens the ability of those with dementia to remain in their homes and communities."CMS is excited to partner with Essen Health Care under the GUIDE Model," said CMS Administrator Chiquita Brooks-LaSure. "GUIDE represents a transformative approach to how Medicare supports people living with dementia. The program not only envisions new care pathways for these individuals but also reduces the strain on caregivers, enabling more Americans to receive the care they need in familiar surroundings rather than institutional settings."Essen Health Care, has emphasized its dedication to enhancing care for vulnerable populations through innovative approaches, "we have always been committed to providing compassionate and comprehensive care to those who need it most
Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) Model Aims to Increase Care Coordination and Support for CaregiversBRONX, N.Y., Aug. 20, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Essen Health Care is proud to announce its selection by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to participate in the groundbreaking Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) Model, a new Medicare alternative payment model. This initiative is designed to enhance care coordination and provide crucial support to people living with dementia and their caregivers.Under the GUIDE Model, Essen Health Care joins nearly 400 participants nationwide in developing Dementia Care Programs (DCPs) aimed at improving access to essential services and support, including respite care. This model empowers caregivers and strengthens the ability of those with dementia to remain in their homes and communities."CMS is excited to partner with Essen Health Care under the GUIDE Model," said CMS Administrator Chiquita Brooks-LaSure. "GUIDE represents a transformative approach to how Medicare supports people living with dementia. The program not only envisions new care pathways for these individuals but also reduces the strain on caregivers, enabling more Americans to receive the care they need in familiar surroundings rather than institutional settings."Essen Health Care, has emphasized its dedication to enhancing care for vulnerable populations through innovative approaches, "we have always been committed to providing compassionate and comprehensive care to those who need it most