Remote Director, Physician Billing & Coding Chicago - 550 Van Buren

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.

Munson Healthcares revenue cycle operations are jointly managed by Huron and Munson Healthcare. Huron employs strategic leaders, while Munson employs associates and supervisors. Facing pressure to improve outcomes and reduce costs, Munson and Huron collaborate to foster a culture of innovation, empowering all stakeholders to achieve the best patient outcomes and long-term success.

The Physician Billing & Coding Director leads patient financial services, managing staff and operations in accounts receivable, denials, cash posting, and follow-up. They build partnerships with hospital executives, develop policies, monitor performance, manage escalations, and coordinate with clinical staff. They allocate resources, participate in budgeting, resolve disagreements, delegate tasks, and provide feedback. They also lead by example, create a respectful work environment, and build a cohesive team to achieve objectives.

As the Director of Physician Billing & Coding, you will:

• Lead and direct comprehensive Physician Billing and Coding teams, including but not limited to denials & write-off prevention, vendor management, data insights, and systems applications support teams.
• Provide strategic analysis and interpretation of critical revenue cycle data, identifying process improvement opportunities and monitoring performance against targets.
• Conduct risk assessments to achieve KPI targets, report identified risks to senior management and provide strategic recommendations for mitigation.
• Strong understanding of revenue cycle metrics and the levers that drive them in the patient access, patient financial services, and coding environment.
• Serve as a connection point between data analytics and functional experts across the revenue cycle and health system to identify and drive forward measurable performance improvement.
• Provide operational leaders with strategic data and insights to drive targeted actions for metric improvement.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree Requred; advanced degrees or equivalent experience are valued
• 2-3 years in a leadership role in patient financial services.
• 6-8+ years in healthcare operations.
• U.S. work authorization.
• Experience with Cerner Revenue Cycle applications.
• Certified Professional Coding Certificate highly desired
• Ability to manage international teams.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office.
• Direct supervisory experience in coaching/mentoring, and performance management.

The estimated salary range for this job is $115,000 - $145,000.  The range represents a good faith estimate of the range that Huron reasonably expects to pay for this job at the time of the job posting. The actual salary paid to an individual will vary based on multiple factors, including but not limited to specific skills or certifications, years of experience, market changes and required travel.  This job is also eligible to participate in Huron’s annual incentive compensation program, which reflects Huron’s pay for performance philosophy and Huron’s benefit plans which include medical, dental and vision coverage and other wellness programs. The salary range information provided is in accordance with applicable state and local laws regarding salary transparency that are currently in effect and may be implemented in the future.

Posting Category

Healthcare

Opportunity Type

Regular

Country

United States of America