Centralized Billing Office Manager

Surgery Partners Brand; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, vision insurance

Health Savings Account (HSA)

Life Insurance

Paid Time Off

401(k) retirement plan with company 
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Job summary

Surgery Partners Brand in California is seeking a Centralized Billing Office Manager to lead day-to-day centralized revenue cycle operations across multiple ambulatory surgery centers, overseeing billing, accounts receivable, collections, payment posting, insurance verification, and authorizations.

You will drive standardized workflows, monitor performance, coach staff, and partner with center leadership and the Revenue Cycle Director to meet financial goals.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of progressive experience in healthcare revenue cycle management
• Previous supervisory or management experience
• Strong understanding of the healthcare revenue cycle from front-end processes through billing, A/R, collections, and payment posting
• Experience working with multiple locations, departments, or business units preferred
• Strong analytical, organizational, and problem-solving skills
• Ability to interpret revenue cycle reports and performance metrics
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office and healthcare revenue cycle systems

Responsibilities

• Manage daily centralized billing operations and ensure timely completion of assigned revenue cycle activities
• Establish and maintain standardized workflows, procedures, and work queues across supported centers
• Monitor billing activity to ensure claims are submitted accurately and timely
• Identify billing delays, claim submission issues, and workflow inefficiencies and implement corrective action
• Ensure staff have the appropriate resources, training, access, and tools to perform their responsibilities effectively
• Maintain consistent revenue cycle processes across all assigned centers while addressing center-specific operational needs
• Oversee centralized A/R and collections activities to support organizational cash and A/R goals
• Monitor A/R aging, outstanding balances, payer trends, and collection activity
• Ensure timely follow-up on unpaid and underpaid claims
• Monitor productivity and account resolution to ensure staff are working assigned inventory appropriately
• Identify significant payer, billing, authorization, or reimbursement trends and escalates issues appropriately
• Partner with the Revenue Cycle Director on strategies to reduce aged A/R and improve cash collections
• Supervise, coach, and develop centralized business office staff
• Establish clear expectations for productivity, quality, timeliness, and accountability
• Conduct regular performance monitoring and provide coaching and feedback
• Assist with hiring, onboarding, training, and development of centralized revenue cycle staff
• Cross-train employees to create operational flexibility and reduce workflow disruptions
• Monitor staffing capacity and recommend workflow or staffing adjustments based on volume and business needs
• Foster a collaborative, accountable, and solutions-oriented team environment
• Monitor and report key revenue cycle performance indicators, including A/R days, A/R aging, cash collections, unbilled A/R, denial analysis and trends
• Prepare routine operational reports and summaries for the Revenue Cycle Director
• Assist in establishing department productivity standards and performance benchmarks
• Identify opportunities to centralize, standardize, and streamline revenue cycle processes
• Develop and maintain standard operating procedures, workflows, and training materials
• Participate in revenue cycle transformation and process improvement initiatives
• Support implementation of technology, vendors, systems, and workflow changes
• Collaborate with Revenue Cycle leadership and center leadership to eliminate redundant processes and improve cost-to-collect
• Assist with identifying opportunities to consolidate work across centers based on volume and staffing capacity
• Partner with center Business Office Managers, Administrators, clinical leadership, and corporate departments to resolve revenue cycle issues
• Serve as a centralized point of contact for day-to-day billing and A/R operational questions
• Communicate issues requiring escalation to the Revenue Cycle Director with appropriate background, supporting data, and recommended solutions
• Collaborate with payer contracting/managed care, coding, authorization, credentialing, and other departments as necessary to resolve reimbursement issues
• Maintain effective communication between centralized staff and individual surgery centers
• Ensure revenue cycle activities are performed in accordance with company policies, payer requirements, applicable regulations, and internal controls
• Maintain appropriate documentation and controls related to billing, collections, payments, adjustments, and account resolution
• Identify and escalates compliance concerns or potential billing issues
• Promote accuracy and quality throughout all centralized revenue cycle processes
• Participate in revenue cycle transformation and process improvement initiatives
• Support implementation of technology, vendors, systems, and workflow changes

Job description

Job Category : Billing, Coding, and Collection

The Centralized Billing Office Manager is responsible for the day-to-day management, coordination, and performance of centralized revenue cycle operations supporting multiple ambulatory surgery centers. This position provides operational leadership across billing, accounts receivable, collections, payment posting, insurance verification, authorizations, and other centralized business office functions.

The Centralized Billing Office Manager will ensure consistent processes, accountability, productivity, and service levels across assigned functions while partnering closely with center leadership and the Revenue Cycle Director to achieve organizational financial and operational goals.

This role is responsible for translating centralized revenue cycle strategies into effective daily workflows, monitoring team performance, identifying process gaps, and driving timely resolution of billing and reimbursement issues.

Centralized Billing Operations

Manage daily centralized billing operations and ensure timely completion of assigned revenue cycle activities.

Establish and maintain standardized workflows, procedures, and work queues across supported centers.

Monitor billing activity to ensure claims are submitted accurately and timely.

Identify billing delays, claim submission issues, and workflow inefficiencies and implement corrective action.

Ensure staff have the appropriate resources, training, access, and tools to perform their responsibilities effectively.

Maintain consistent revenue cycle processes across all assigned centers while addressing center-specific operational needs.

Accounts Receivable & Collections

Oversee centralized A/R and collections activities to support organizational cash and A/R goals.

Monitor A/R aging, outstanding balances, payer trends, and collection activity.

Ensure timely follow-up on unpaid and underpaid claims.

Monitor productivity and account resolution to ensure staff are working assigned inventory appropriately.

Identify significant payer, billing, authorization, or reimbursement trends and escalates issues appropriately.

Partner with the Revenue Cycle Director on strategies to reduce aged A/R and improve cash collections.

Supervise, coach, and develop centralized business office staff.

Establish clear expectations for productivity, quality, timeliness, and accountability.

Conduct regular performance monitoring and provide coaching and feedback.

Assist with hiring, onboarding, training, and development of centralized revenue cycle staff.

Cross-train employees to create operational flexibility and reduce workflow disruptions.

Monitor staffing capacity and recommend workflow or staffing adjustments based on volume and business needs.

Foster a collaborative, accountable, and solutions-oriented team environment.

Revenue Cycle Reporting & KPIs

Monitor and report key revenue cycle performance indicators, including:

A/R days

A/R aging

Cash collections

Unbilled A/R

Claim submission timeliness

Denials

Underpayments

Collection productivity

Payment posting timeliness

Outstanding work queues

Review performance trends and identify opportunities for improvement.

Prepare routine operational reports and summaries for the Revenue Cycle Director.

Assist in establishing department productivity standards and performance benchmarks.

Identify opportunities to centralize, standardize, and streamline revenue cycle processes.

Develop and maintain standard operating procedures, workflows, and training materials.

Participate in revenue cycle transformation and process improvement initiatives.

Support implementation of technology, vendors, systems, and workflow changes.

Collaborate with Revenue Cycle leadership and center leadership to eliminate redundant processes and improve cost-to-collect.

Assist with identifying opportunities to consolidate work across centers based on volume, staffing capacity, and operational needs.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

Partner with center Business Office Managers, Administrators, clinical leadership, and corporate departments to resolve revenue cycle issues.

Serve as a centralized point of contact for day-to-day billing and A/R operational questions.

Communicate issues requiring escalation to the Revenue Cycle Director with appropriate background, supporting data, and recommended solutions.

Collaborate with payer contracting/managed care, coding, authorization, credentialing, and other departments as necessary to resolve reimbursement issues.

Maintain effective communication between centralized staff and individual surgery centers.

Compliance & Quality

Ensure revenue cycle activities are performed in accordance with company policies, payer requirements, applicable regulations, and internal controls.

Maintain appropriate documentation and controls related to billing, collections, payments, adjustments, and account resolution.

Identify and escalates compliance concerns or potential billing issues.

Promote accuracy and quality throughout all centralized revenue cycle processes.

Qualifications

Required:

3+ years of progressive experience in healthcare revenue cycle management, medical billing, accounts receivable, or business office operations.

Previous supervisory or management experience.

Strong understanding of the healthcare revenue cycle from front-end processes through billing, A/R, collections, and payment posting.

Experience working with multiple locations, departments, or business units preferred.

Strong analytical, organizational, and problem-solving skills.

Ability to interpret revenue cycle reports and performance metrics.

Strong communication and interpersonal skills.

Proficiency with Microsoft Office and healthcare revenue cycle systems.

Preferred:

Experience in ambulatory surgery centers, outpatient healthcare, or physician practice revenue cycle.

Experience managing centralized/shared-service revenue cycle operations.

Experience with revenue cycle process standardization and centralization.

Experience implementing or optimizing billing systems, technology, or third-party vendors.

Revenue Cycle Expertise

Leadership & Accountability

Analytical & Financial Acumen

Process Improvement

Team Development

Problem Solving

Communication

Change Management

Cross-Functional Collaboration

Performance Expectations

Success in this position will be measured through operational execution and measurable revenue cycle performance, including:

Timely and accurate billing

Improved A/R performance

Achievement of cash collection goals

Reduction of aged A/R

Timely resolution of denials and underpayments

Improved staff productivity and accountability

Consistent adherence to standardized workflows

Reduction of unnecessary or duplicative work across centers

Improved communication and service to supported centers

Successful implementation of revenue cycle process improvements

Scope of Role

The Centralized Billing Office Manager is responsible foroperational management of centralized billing and revenue cycle functions, while the Revenue Cycle Director maintains overall strategic ownership of revenue cycle performance, financial outcomes, standardization, transformation initiatives, and enterprise-level revenue cycle strategy.

• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance
• Health Savings Account with an employer contribution
• Life Insurance
• PTO
• 401(k) retirement plan with a company match
• And more!

Equal Employment Opportunity & Work Force Diversity

Our organizationis an equal opportunity employer and will not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment based on race, color, creed, sex, religion, marital status, age, national origin or ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, parental status, sexual orientation, veteran status, genetic testing results or any other consideration made unlawful by federal, state or local laws. This practice relates to all personnel matters such as compensation, benefits, training, promotions, transfers, layoffs, etc.Furthermore, our organizationiscommitted to going beyond the legal requirements of equal employment opportunity to take positive actions which ensure diversity in the workplace and result in a multi-cultural organization.

Equal Opportunity Employer

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