Description
A Healthcare provider in the San Francisco Bay Area is now recruiting for a Revenue Cycle Director.Accountabilities
- The Revenue Cycle Director is responsible for admissions, registration, scheduling, authorization, billing and accounts receivable functions.
- The Director is responsible for Revenue Integrity and compliance issues encompassed in the Revenue Cycle including the Charge Description Master.
- In addition, the Director leads the Quality Improvement functions related to Revenue Cycle: patient satisfaction, vendor relations and Key Performance Indicators.
- The scope of responsibilities includes approximately $300 million in net Account Receivable collections.
- This position oversees the daily operations as well as the long range planning for receivable management and budgeting.
- The Director will establish the strategic direction, operational vision and implementation plan for the Revenue Cycle Function to meet current and future demands in the identification, billing, collecting, and reporting on revenue for the hospital.
Qualifications and Experience
- Bachelor's Degree, Master's Degree preferred.
- Minimum five years, with at least two years supervisory experience. Demonstrated success in managing day-to-day operations of a large scale, high volume admitting function or billing department for a hospital or medical center.
- Demonstrated track record of decreasing receivables and increasing cash collections without an adverse impact on employee morale or customer satisfaction.
- Demonstrated experience in reducing bad debt, with minimal negative impact to institution.
- Ability to establish rapport and cooperation between staffs in patient account, utilization review, medical records, patient registrations, hospital management, payers and all other departments that impact the patient accounting function. Demonstrated ability to plan, implement, and effect transition from a "transaction" orientation to a high quality customer service orientation which includes the physicians and patients as customers.
- Have extensive experience with patient accounting, billing collections, and healthcare receivables management.
- Have extensive knowledge of the hospital registration process, regulatory compliance issues, uniform billing requirements, medical office practices, medical terminology, ICD-9, ICD-10, HCPCS, and CPT coding. Computer skills, especially Microsoft Office, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, GroupWise or Outlook, Internet, Epic.
Compensation
This role is for a one year contract, however there is potential for extension or conversion. The healthcare provider is very eager to hire and encourages those interested to apply as soon as possible.