Gainwell Technologies

Business Analyst - Prior Authorization & Interoperability (PAI Project)

Gainwell Technologies  •  $56k - $71k/yr  •  Wisconsin (Remote)  •  1 month ago
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Job Description

Be part of a team that unleashes the power of leading-edge technologies to help improve the health and well-being of those most vulnerable in our country and communities. Working at Gainwell carries its rewards. You’ll have an incredible opportunity to grow your career in a company that values work flexibility, learning, and career development. You’ll add to your technical credentials and certifications while enjoying a generous, flexible vacation policy and educational assistance. We also have comprehensive leadership and technical development academies to help build your skills and capabilities.

As a Business Analyst - Prior Authorization & Interoperability (PAI Project) at Gainwell, you can contribute your skills as we harness the power of technology to help our clients improve the health and well-being of the members they serve — a community’s most vulnerable. Connect your passion with purpose, teaming with people who thrive on finding innovative solutions to some of healthcare’s biggest challenges. Here are the details on this position.

The Professional Business Analyst will support the Advancing Interoperability and Improving Prior Authorization Processes project by contributing to operational readiness activities, requirements documentation, and testing efforts. This is a remote role, with up to 10% travel for key workshops, training events, or stakeholder sessions.

The analyst will work closely with senior analysts, operational leaders, and technical teams to help evaluate current workflows, document future‑state processes, and prepare business operations for changes related to new prior authorization capabilities. This position requires solid analytical skills, effective communication, and the ability to support projects that integrate new technology, federal regulations, and evolving operational practices.

Your role in our mission

Gainwell empowers you show you’re a pro and help clients deliver better health and human services outcomes using innovative technology and solutions.

Operational Process & Readiness Support

  • Documents current operational workflows and assists in identifying process gaps or improvement areas.
  • Supports development of future‑state process flows and operational readiness materials.
  • Assists with preparing staffing inputs, workload assumptions, and operational support documentation.
  • Contributes to operational transition and readiness activities for new prior authorization workflows.

Business Analysis & Requirements

  • Participates in eliciting functional and operational requirements from business and technical stakeholders.
  • Documents requirements, business rules, and process details using standard formats.
  • Supports development of workflow diagrams, data flow details, and operational metrics.
  • Helps maintain traceability of requirements throughout the project lifecycle.

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Testing & Validation

  • Assists in developing test cases and acceptance criteria with an operational focus.
  • Participates in system, user acceptance, and operational readiness testing activities.
  • Tracks defects, monitors issues, and coordinates resolution with project teams.
  • Helps validate that implemented changes align with intended operational outcomes.

Project Delivery & Collaboration

  • Supports communication between operations, policy teams, and technical project staff.
  • Assists in identifying operational impacts of system or policy changes.
  • Helps develop training materials, SOP updates, and documentation for transition to operations.
  • Supports project planning activities related to analysis and readiness.
  • Assists in virtual and occasional in‑person training for impacted operational staff

What we're looking for

  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education and experience.
  • Two to four years of business analysis, process documentation, or operations support experience.
  • Experience with workflow analysis, requirements gathering, or business process mapping.
  • Experience collaborating with cross‑functional teams in a remote or hybrid environment.
  • Exposure to healthcare operations, prior authorization workflows, or regulatory implementations is preferred.

Other qualifications

  • Strong written and verbal communication skills.
  • Ability to document processes clearly and accurately.
  • Solid analytical and problem‑solving capabilities.
  • Ability to manage multiple tasks and meet deadlines.
  • Proficiency with Microsoft Office and basic business or process modeling tools.
  • Effective in a remote work environment with strong virtual collaboration skills.
  • Willingness to travel up to 10% for essential project activities.

What you should expect in this role

  • Fully remote options from Contiguous US locations only
  • Video cameras must be used during all interviews, as well as during the initial week of orientation
  • The deadline to submit applications for this posting is March 5, 2026

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The pay range for this position is $55,600.00 - $71,460 per year, however, the base pay offered may vary depending on geographic region, internal equity, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience among other factors. Put your passion to work at Gainwell. You’ll have the opportunity to grow your career in a company that values work flexibility, learning, and career development. All salaried, full-time candidates are eligible for our generous, flexible vacation policy, a 401(k) employer match, comprehensive health benefits, and educational assistance. We also have a variety of leadership and technical development academies to help build your skills and capabilities.

We believe nothing is impossible when you bring together people who care deeply about making healthcare work better for everyone. Build your career with Gainwell, an industry leader. You’ll be joining a company where collaboration, innovation, and inclusion fuel our growth. Learn more about Gainwell at our company website and visit our Careers site for all available job role openings.

Gainwell Technologies is an Equal Opportunity Employer, where all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical condition), age, sexual orientation, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. Gainwell Technologies defines “wages” and “wage rates” to include “all forms of pay, including, but not limited to, salary, overtime pay, bonuses, stock, stock options, profit sharing and bonus plans, life insurance, vacation and holiday pay, cleaning or gasoline allowances, hotel accommodations, reimbursement for travel expenses, and benefits.

Gainwell Technologies

About Gainwell Technologies

For 50 years, our nation’s federal Medicaid program has worked to improve the health, safety and well-being of America’s most vulnerable populations: low-income families, women and children, seniors, and those with disabilities. With positive health and cost outcomes that pierce inequities and impact economies, the success of these programs is inextricably tied to the prosperity of communities, individual states and the nation as a whole. We think that demands respect and, more importantly, is deserving of a lifetime commitment from innovators who can help those who operate within and around health and human services evolve — in any market at any stage. At Gainwell Technologies, that’s our sole focus.

Built across more than five decades, Gainwell has intentionally seized opportunities to advance its digitally enabled services to meet agencies, health plans and MCOs where they are on their modernization journeys and propel them into the future of public health. Our commitment to innovation, deep experience and ability to leverage insights from customers across 50 states has allowed us to expand on next-generation, cloud-enabled technologies.

Today, Gainwell offers one of the most comprehensive suites of scalable services and solutions on the market — all proven to deliver cost savings, better patient outcomes and an improved provider experience. Equally important to our expanding technologies and results: We bring ideas that bring policies to life.

Industry
IT & Software
Company Size
10,000+ employees
Headquarters
United States
Year Founded
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