Vice President, Revenue Cycle- Medical Group Services

Lifepoint Health • Brentwood, TN

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About The Position

The Vice President, Revenue Cycle provides strategic, operational, and leadership oversight for all revenue cycle functions supporting the Medical Group Services organization. This leader ensures the optimization, standardization, and integrity of front‑end, mid‑cycle, and back‑end processes spanning practice locations, centralized billing offices, and enterprise shared services. The role is accountable for driving measurable performance improvement, strengthening financial outcomes, ensuring regulatory compliance, and aligning revenue cycle operations with the Company's strategic priorities and growth agenda.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in business, Finance, Information Technology, or Health Care Administration required
• athenahealth experience is required
• Minimum 15 years of relevant revenue cycle experience
• Progressive leadership experience in revenue cycle operations
• Strong experience in physician/professional fee bill required
• You must be authorized to work in the United States without employer sponsorship.

Nice To Haves

• EPIC practice management systems preferred

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic direction and operational leadership for all revenue cycle functions supporting Medical Group Services, ensuring alignment with enterprise financial and operational goals.
• Direct and continuously enhance billing, collections, cash posting, coding, and related workflows to maximize cash acceleration, reduce denials, and ensure revenue integrity.
• Lead enterprise-wide improvement initiatives focused on revenue cycle transformation, process optimization, and cost‑to‑collect reduction.
• Design, implement, and continuously refine key revenue cycle performance metrics at the practice, regional, and enterprise level. Monitor trends, identify root causes of performance gaps, and implement corrective action plans to ensure consistent achievement of KPIs.
• Establish and enforce enterprise-wide revenue cycle policies, internal controls, and operating standards to ensure compliance and operational discipline.
• Champion the adoption and integration of emerging technologies—including automation, AI‑driven analytics, digital patient engagement tools, and revenue cycle workflow platforms—to accelerate cash, improve accuracy, and increase operational efficiency. Serve as the executive sponsor for evaluating, piloting, and scaling innovative solutions that advance the enterprise’s digital‑first strategy.
• Strengthen Market Leadership and Provider engagement by ensuring effective coordination of revenue cycle processes, visibility of performance, and alignment on improvement strategies. Serve as a trusted advisor to physician leadership, practice operations, and senior executives on revenue cycle performance and opportunities.
• Partner with Managed Care to analyze and interpret payer contract terms, helping ensure operational adherence and optimization of reimbursement under executed agreements. Provide feedback and operational insight to support payer negotiations, value‑based arrangements, and payment model evolution.
• Oversee revenue cycle compliance with Company Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) requirements, internal audit findings, and industry regulations. Serve as the accountable leader for compliance attestations and the mitigation of revenue cycle operational risks.
• Ensure business processes uphold payer, governmental, and legal requirements across all sites of care

Benefits

• Multiple levels of medical, dental and vision coverage for full-time and part-time employees.
• Life, accident, critical illness, hospital indemnity insurance, short- and long-term disability, paid family leave and paid time off.
• Higher education and certification tuition assistance, loan assistance and 401(k) retirement package and company match.
• Mental, physical, and financial wellness programs (free gym memberships, virtual care appointments, mental health services and discount programs).
• Ongoing learning and career advancement opportunities.

What This Job Offers

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