Healthcare Revenue Cycle Director

Chartis

2d•$110 - $180•Onsite

About The Position

The challenges facing US healthcare are longstanding and all too familiar. We are Chartis, and we believe in better. We work with more than 1,900 organizations annually to develop and activate transformative strategies, operating models, and organizational enterprises that make US healthcare more affordable, accessible, safe, and human. With more than 1,450 professionals, we help providers, payers, technology innovators, retail companies, and investors create and embrace solutions that tangibly and materially reshape healthcare for the better. Our family of brands—Chartis, Jarrard, Greeley, and HealthScape Advisors—is 100% focused on healthcare and each has a longstanding commitment to helping transform healthcare in big and small ways. Believe in better. Chartis has offices in Boston, Chicago, New York, Washington D.C., and Nashville.

Requirements

Skills
Experience
Training
Licensure and certifications
Practice area
Other business and organizational needs

Responsibilities

Direct the operational, financial, and personnel activities of the Patient Accounts department.
Achieve established performance targets by engaging multiple disciplines, departments, and staff across Health Care.
Confer with physicians and department managers to resolve operational problems and optimize service delivery.
Act as liaison between the Hospital Patient Accounts Department and physicians, hospital staff, the public, and third-party reimbursement agencies.
Manage people, relationships, and processes to maximize results and promote stakeholder engagement.
Promote collaboration and teamwork, and champion service excellence initiatives throughout the department.
Coordinate financial reporting activities with departments such as general accounting, reimbursement, compliance, and university physicians.
Maintain current knowledge of third-party payor regulations and initiate corrective actions to support compliance with federal and state program requirements.
Develop long-range strategies for access planning and management, addressing changes in reimbursement and clinical environments in collaboration with internal and external partners.
Direct and monitor department functions, including billing, credit and collections, cashiers, cash control, data entry, data control, and insurance operations.
Represent Health Care in court actions related to patient account collections and resolve complex reimbursement and billing issues.
Ensure billing and collection practices comply with federal and state laws, and that policies are aligned with Health Care standards.
Direct operational activities and identify areas for improvement through performance metrics and quality initiatives.