Patient Financial Services Manager

Huron • Chicago, IL

8d • $80,000 - $105,000

About The Position

Huron helps its clients drive growth, enhance performance and sustain leadership in the markets they serve. We help healthcare organizations build innovation capabilities and accelerate key growth initiatives, enabling organizations to own the future, instead of being disrupted by it. Together, we empower clients to create sustainable growth, optimize internal processes and deliver better consumer outcomes. Health systems, hospitals and medical clinics are under immense pressure to improve clinical outcomes and reduce the cost of providing patient care. Investing in new partnerships, clinical services and technology is not enough to create meaningful and substantive change. To succeed long-term, healthcare organizations must empower leaders, clinicians, employees, affiliates and communities to build cultures that foster innovation to achieve the best outcomes for patients. Joining the Huron team means you’ll help our clients evolve and adapt to the rapidly changing healthcare environment and optimize existing business operations, improve clinical outcomes, create a more consumer-centric healthcare experience, and drive physician, patient and employee engagement across the enterprise. Join our team as the expert you are now and create your future. The Patient Financial Services Manager set and enforce operational policies, procedures and guidelines. Maintain effective communication with clients, insurance carriers and other partners to resolve issues that impede cash flow and detract from patient or client satisfaction. Lead the productivity of department operations, and direct efforts to ensure successful outcomes. Monitor quality and productivity through reporting and associate management, identify trends and operational deficiencies, and manage corrective action plans as necessary to ensure successful outcomes. Identify escalation points as reported by team and patient office or client. Manage to and optimize standardized workflows across the billing process and solution capabilities. Identify opportunities to allocate resources cross-functionally, including people, data, processes and financial investments, to achieve the optimal workflow and outcomes.

Requirements

• Effective and efficient organization and planning skills with the proven ability to manage complex multi-workstream performance improvement projects or multiple concurrent client engagements, while delegating and overseeing the work of junior team members
• Proven analytical and critical thinking skills required to synthesize complex data sets and interpret qualitative and quantitative data and trends to implement recommendations resulting in measurable performance improvement and successful organizational change
• Impactful and professional written and verbal communication set clear project team direction, develop key deliverables, escalate risks, and influence key stakeholders inclusive of client and internal senior leadership
• Ability to collaborate with team members and client counterparts to understand business challenges, adapt implementation methodologies and approaches to ensure results align with client’s business objectives
• Team leadership experience including building talent, training, supervising, coaching/mentoring, and performance management
• U.S. work authorization required
• Bachelor's degree required
• Proficient in Microsoft office (Word, PowerPoint, Excel)
• Direct Supervisory Experience required
• Patient Financial Services experience required, 1-3 years in a leadership capacity preferred
• 5+ years of healthcare operations experience

Responsibilities

• Coordinate with the patient financial services team in the operations of daily job responsibilities
• Develop, recommend, and oversee the implementation and administration of policies and procedures of respective area
• Evaluate process and procedures and coordinate with the management team to ensure efficient areas of focus adhere to federal and local laws and regulations
• Demonstrate, through plans and actions, a consistent standard of excellence to which all department work is expected to conform
• Focus on continuous improvement working with the Lead Manager and respective teams Managers across the Health System with a goal of delivering the highest degree of quality service possible
• Provide support for Human Resource guidance
• Complete, review, manage and monitor department budget
• Directs and leads the patient financial services team in the daily operations
• Performs other duties as assigned

Benefits

• Huron Consulting Group offers a competitive compensation and benefits package including medical, dental, and vision coverage to employees and dependents; a 401(k) plan with a generous employer match; an employee stock purchase plan; a generous Paid Time Off policy; and paid parental leave and adoption assistance.
• Our Wellness Program supports employee total well-being by providing free annual health screenings and coaching, bank at work, and on-site workshops, as well as ongoing programs recognizing major events in the lives of our employees throughout the year.
• All benefits and programs are subject to applicable eligibility requirements.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager