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Director
Accounts Receivable Management
Full-Time
Overview:
The Director of A/R Management is responsible for the day-to-day and strategic management of the Physician Central Billing Office’s accounts receivable and be a primary contact between the physician billing office, provider relations, IT, and performance and optimization teams. This individual will be responsible for building and maintaining collaborative and productive relationships within the organization, managing A/R managers and representatives in a hierarchical manner, identifying, and supporting operational performance improvement initiatives related to revenue enhancement and providing direction and oversight of processes impacting cash collections. This position would be recognized as Director-level role in scope and the individual would be a key member of the internal Professional Central Billing Office leadership team.
Duties and Responsibilities (% of Time Spent)
Leadership (45%)
Creates a culture of excellence in accounts receivable follow-up efforts guided by best practices, industry standards, and timely and relevant insights based on trends
Prepare annual statement of goals and objectives for the team, including the method for measuring/tracking success of those goals and approach to execution, and lead efforts that drive expected performance
Manages A/R and leads the team towards achieving A/R and cash goals. Encourages A/R management team to set team goals and distribute work to subordinates in advance of completion dates
Provides timely feedback to management and staff; encourages independent thinking among team members
Follow up on routine daily, weekly, and monthly responsibilities of managers including assistance with identifying larger trends negatively impacting departmental performance and create action plans to remediate emerging issues
Establish oneself as the lead on all PCBO follow up initiatives including integrating with other PCBO and external teams
Manage relationships with various PCBO vendor partners including validating monthly invoices, coordinating meetings to troubleshoot issues, and ensuring policies and procedures are being followed to maximize collection
Communication (35%)
Develop and cultivate collaborative and productive working relationships with other revenue cycle leaders
Interact with stakeholders across the organization, including Patient Access, Information Technology (IT), Physician Hospital Organization (PHO) and Hospital and International Billing
Lead key revenue cycle communication forums to better understand trends and advise on action plans, including metric meetings, denial prevention task force and leadership huddles
Support and implement department-specific or system-wide improvement efforts to increase revenue capture and decrease revenue leakage across the revenue cycle
Use existing and not-yet-built tools to forecast revenue issues and develop action plans and communications in advance
Data Analytics (15%)
In collaboration with provider relations, continuously work to optimize revenue cycle metric scorecards and reporting through automation and inclusion of new, more impactful metrics
Pull, organize and analyze data out of Epic to supplement metric scorecards to help identify performance improvement opportunities
Perform ad hoc analyses to identify opportunity areas within each provider’s revenue cycle operation
Lead root cause analysis and escalation efforts inside and outside of the organization to benefit physician cash collections.
Training (5%)
Identify training opportunities for front office staff or providers through metric research
Escalate training opportunities to appropriate stakeholders as needed, if outside of core responsibilities (e.g., provider education)
Train accounts receivable staff on follow-up actions to take in accordance with established and to-be-created protocols
Qualifications
Education Requirement
Bachelors Degree from an accredited university is required, Master’s Degree highly desirable.
Experience Requirement
Minimum of 7 years’ experience in ambulatory practice management, revenue cycle management, or healthcare consulting. Experience with professional billing for surgical providers strongly preferred and orthopedic surgery experience is highly desirable. Familiarity with insurance payor behaviors and reimbursement policies are required.
Skills Requirement
Ability to inspire confidence in executive leadership
Willingness, ability and eagerness to train and mentor A/R managers and staff
Ability to develop, organize, and present analytical data, statistical reports in various formats
Excellent verbal and written communication skills and exhibit outstanding listening capability
Capability of distilling complex billing situations into actionable follow-up
Demonstrated ability to work productively, independently, and collaboratively in a team environment requiring quick turnaround and quality output while juggling multiple competing priorities
Strong financial acumen within professional billing
Proven knowledge and experience in understanding healthcare industry technology, regulatory laws and regulations
Subject matter expertise in the following healthcare functions: scheduling, registration, authorization/referral management, charge entry, coding, billing, credentialing, reimbursement and information systems
Ability to understand, use, and manage your own emotions in positive ways to relieve stress, communicate effectively, empathize with others, overcome challenges and defuse conflict.
Unquestionable personal integrity that exudes professional credibility and
Epic Professional Billing modules and reporting (Hyperspace, Cubes, Caboodle, Tableau) experience preferred
Other Requirements
-Onsite
Pay Range - Minimum
USD $170,000.00/Yr.
Pay Range - Maximum
USD $200,000.00/Yr.
Seniority level
Director
Employment type
Full-time
Job function
Accounting/Auditing and Finance
Industries
Hospitals and Health Care
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