Director - Revenue Cycle Operations - Full Time

Kittitas Valley Healthcare; Ellensburg (WA); On-site; USD 119,000 - 172,000; Full time

Job summary

Kittitas Valley Healthcare, based in Ellensburg, WA, seeks a Director of Revenue Cycle Operations to lead the full spectrum of revenue cycle functions. The role oversees patient financial services, billing, coding, and information management to optimize reimbursements and cash flow.

Ideal candidate has 5+ years in a supervisory role with healthcare revenue management experience and familiarity with EHR systems. This is a full-time position with comprehensive benefits and a competitive wage.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in business administration, Accounting, HIM or related field; additional work experience may count in lieu of formal education.
• Recent experience with healthcare revenue management.
• Experience with electronic health record systems and health information management.
• At least 5 years in a supervisory role.

Responsibilities

• Direct leadership over revenue cycle management teams and managers.
• Oversee patient financial services, billing, coding, and information management.
• Develop policies, procedures, and KPI reporting to improve revenue capture.
• Ensure compliance with payer rules and regulatory requirements.

Skills

Leadership

Supervisory experience

Healthcare revenue management

Education

Bachelor’s degree in business administration, Accounting, HIM or related field

Tools

EHR systems

Job description

Director - Revenue Cycle Operations - Full Time

• Full-time

KVH is an integrated healthcare delivery system that includes 24-hour emergency care, inpatient, and outpatient hospital services through KVH Hospital. Clinics and services provided include family medicine, internal medicine, a geriatric nurse practitioner program, home health and hospice, physical therapy,orthopedics, general surgery, pediatrics, women’s health, and urgent care.

Kittitas Valley Healthcare expects all employees to uphold our Vision & Mission. The KVH Vision, Mission & Guiding Principles can be found at http://www.kvhealthcare.org/mission-and-vision.

KVH puts‘employee care’high on the priority list, with health benefits likelow cost medical, dental, and vision insuranceand a robust employee wellness program. KVH offers company contribution toward your choice of medical, dental, and vision insurance coverage, including coverage available for spouses/ domestic partners, and dependent children.KVH believes that continuing education is critical to our mission and vision. We have implemented many educational programs such as the Medical Assistant Apprenticeship program and certification pay to encourage continuing education.We want our employees to know they are valued. One of the ways we show this is by quickly vesting employees, making them pension eligible after just one year ofpart-time status. To view more details about the comprehensive benefits package we offer to eligible employees visit our website -

The Director of Revenue Cycle Operations is responsible for the full spectrum of revenue cycle operations, including but not limited to, patient financial services, billing, health information management, coding, and request for information. This position providers direct leadership over the RCM manager, coding Managers, and other management and staff within the revenue cycle division. This position is responsible for patient account billing, claims management, monitoring of CPT/HCPCS coding changes, Medicare, Medicaid, and commercial payers’ reimbursement rules. Additional functions inherent to this position are to support, educate, recommend changes to all charging departments; research, evaluate and recommend changes to interdepartmental revenue cycle processes; define policies and procedures; and develop statistical reports to track revenue capture for services provided. The position is responsible to all KPIs and the annual budgets related to the revenue cycle division. The position is responsible for the culture in revenue cycle division and uphold the KVH core values, designed to ensure a positive employment experience and patient financial experience to every customer.

What is required

• Bachelor’s degree in business administration, Accounting, HIM or related field. Additional, applicable work experience may be considered in lieu of formal education
• Previous, recent experience with healthcare revenue management
• Previous, recent experience with an electronic health record, health information systems and healthcare applications
• At least 5 years in supervisory role

What is preferred

• RHIA or RHIT Certification

Wage: Wage range currentlystarts at $119,000/year andgoes up to $172,000/year. Actual wage will be based on years' of applicable experience.

FTE: 1.0 = 40 hours/week

Schedule:Primarily days; Monday through Friday; 8:00a - 4:30p

Benefits: This position is benefits eligible

Union: This position is non-union