Manager, Ambulatory & Revenue Operations

Alameda Health Sytem; Oakland (CA); On-site; USD 83,000 - 138,000; Full time

Job summary

Alameda Health System in Oakland, CA is seeking a Manager for Ambulatory & Revenue Operations to oversee scheduling, registration, and revenue cycle across ambulatory sites. This internal-only role focuses on optimizing access and financial performance.

The position requires 5+ years of health-system management experience, a Bachelor's degree, and a track record of improving patient access and revenue outcomes.

Qualifications

• Any combination of education and experience that would likely provide the required knowledge, skills and abilities as well as possession of any required licenses or certifications is qualifying.
• Required Education: Bachelor's Degree in a relevant field from an accredited college or university.
• Required Experience: Five years of progressively responsible management experience in a health-system based environment, including oversight of registration, referrals, access or revenue cycle areas.
• Preferred Experience: Experience in public health system facility (with acute and outpatient care), FQHC experience.

Responsibilities

• Cross trains and utilizes creative staffing models to enhance staff development and job satisfaction; participates with Community groups and participates with marketing efforts to grow AHS’s business plan.
• Determines access and revenue cycle impact and goals tied to performance; analyzes all existing reporting tools and develop data to establish performance goals; implements quality assessment and improvement initiatives; measures and reports performance internal and external customer satisfaction surveys and methods for rewarding evidence of progress and improvement; communicates goals to all levels of staff and regularly assesses achievement; collaborates with clinicians and services to advance revenue cycle improvements.
• Develop and implement performance improvement activities across all primary and specialty care clinics in an effort of identifying areas of opportunities for improving patient care and financial outcomes, defines strategies to achieve enhancement, defines process and outcomes measures to monitor effectiveness of initiatives, and communicates to the health system.
• Develops training resources to provide continuous education for all staff; works with Department of Social Services to provide ongoing training in all aspects of Medi-Cal and other financial assistance program for all staff engaged in Financial Counseling.
• Manages the Ambulatory Care Services access (scheduling, registration, and referral coordination and revenue cycle operations (billing, claims, denials, authorizations, registration related edits, education with clinicians) at multiple sites; Wellness Centers and Clinics. Access – scheduling, registration, and referral coordination. Revenue – billing, claims, denials, authorization, and registration impact.
• Performs critical analysis of performance of all information systems and work place environments; prioritizes improvement to our electronic health record; identifies new systems and make recommendations regarding integration of disparate systems to achieve efficient communication between facilities and functions.
• Performs other duties as required.
• Supervises staff and manages employee performance; provides on-going performance feedback, addresses problems, orients and trains employees, verifies competency and identifies and suggests ways to develop skills; monitors workflow.
• Works collaboratively with other departments to support processes and systems for registration are standardized and optimized for efficient and effective flow of patients within the departments and organization.

Skills

Management

Revenue cycle

Healthcare operations

Education

Bachelor's Degree in a relevant field

Job description

Manager, Ambulatory & Revenue Operations Internal Only

Available to current Alameda Health System employees only

• Oakland, CA
• Finance
• Patient Financial Svcs - Facil
• Full Time - Day
• Management
• $60.31 - $100.52/ per hour
• Req #: 44784-33312
• FTE: 1
• Posted: October 27, 2026

Summary

SUMMARY: Responsible for access and revenue operations of scheduling, registration, across all ambulatory clinic sites.

Duties & Essential Job Functions

NOTE: Following are the duties performed by employees in this classification. However, employees may perform other related duties at an equivalent level. Not all duties listed are necessarily performed by each individual in the classification.

1. Cross trains and utilizes creative staffing models to enhance staff development and job satisfaction; participates with Community groups and participates with marketing efforts to grow AHS’s business plan.

2. Determines access and revenue cycle impact and goals tied to performance; analyzes all existing reporting tools and develop data to establish performance goals; implements quality assessment and improvement initiatives; measures and reports performance internal and external customer satisfaction surveys and methods for rewarding evidence of progress and improvement; communicates goals to all levels of staff and regularly assesses achievement; collaborates with clinicians and services to advance revenue cycle improvements.

3. Develop and implement performance improvement activities across all primary and specialty care clinics in an effort of identifying areas of opportunities for improving patient care and financial outcomes, defines strategies to achieve enhancement, defines process and outcomes measures to monitor effectiveness of initiatives, and communicates to the health system.

4. Develops training resources to provide continuous education for all staff; works with Department of Social Services to provide ongoing training in all aspects of Medi-Cal and other financial assistance program for all staff engaged in Financial Counseling.

5. Manages the Ambulatory Care Services access (scheduling, registration, and referral coordination and revenue cycle operations (billing, claims, denials, authorizations, registration related edits, education with clinicians) at multiple sites; Wellness Centers and Clinics. Access – scheduling, registration, and referral coordination. Revenue – billing, claims, denials, authorization, and registration impact.

6. Performs critical analysis of performance of all information systems and work place environments; prioritizes improvement to our electronic health record; identifies new systems and make recommendations regarding integration of disparate systems to achieve efficient communication between facilities and functions.

7. Performs other duties as required.

8. Supervises staff and manages employee performance; provides on-going performance feedback, addresses problems, orients and trains employees, verifies competency and identifies and suggests ways to develop skills; monitors workflow.

9. Works collaboratively with other departments to support processes and systems for registration are standardized and optimized for efficient and effective flow of patients within the departments and organization.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:
Any combination of education and experience that would likely provide the required knowledge, skills and abilities as well as possession of any required licenses or certifications is qualifying.

Required Education: Bachelor's Degree in a relevant field from an accredited college or university.

Required Experience: Five years of progressively responsible management experience in a health-system based environment, including oversight of registration, referrals, access or revenue cycle areas.

Preferred Experience: Experience in public health system facility (with acute and outpatient care), FQHC experience.