RCS-Specialized Manager

IU Health; United States; On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

IU Health seeks a strategic RCS Specialized Manager to shape initiatives, build passionate teams, and improve health outcomes. You will lead revenue cycle management, monitor performance, and align operations with budgets and quality standards.

The role emphasizes engagement, training, and accountable leadership across levels, ensuring regulatory compliance and continuous improvement in billing and collections processes.

Qualifications

• Requires degree or certification in specialized function.
• Three years of hospital or physician billing experience preferred.
• Knowledge of healthcare billing terminology and processes.

Responsibilities

• Lead Revenue Cycle Management and ensure timely, accurate duties.
• Analyze team performance to identify incidents and trends.
• Provide effective financial management within budgets for RCS.
• Promote engagement, development, and leadership across the team.
• Ensure quality, regulatory compliance and continuous improvement.

Skills

Billing terminology

Team leadership

Process improvement

Budget management

Education

ASN/BSN or higher

Health Information Management or AHIMA/AAPC coding credentials

JD for legal roles (optional)

MIS degree or equivalent with ITIL

Job description

RCS Specialized Manager

Our leaders shape strategic initiatives, develop passionate teams, and work to improve health outcomes. They advance our mission and exemplify excellence, compassion, teamwork and purpose in all that they do . Indiana University Health is seeking individuals who embody these values to join our Coding-Physician team in the role of RCS Specialized Manager .

Responsibilities

• Connect to Promise - Demonstrates a commitment to IU Health's mission, vision, and values by exhibiting behaviors and delivering results that align with the strategic direction of the organization. Ensure IU Health is working toward its vision of improving the health of all Hoosiers by providing the best care for each person as we practice our values of purpose, excellence, compassion and team.
• Revenue Cycle Management - Responsible for the team's timely and accurate completion of assigned duties in support of revenue cycle outcomes. Continuously analyzes team performance to identify incidents and trends for both immediate intervention and continuous improvement. Ensures that all reasonable efforts are exercised to optimize revenue cycle outcomes and that job duties are performed within documented standards. Monitors performance against goals at a department and individual business partner level and adjusts strategies and tactics to meet or exceed targeted performance levels. Establishes and manages to production and quality standards for all levels of staff. Provides regular feedback to upstream revenue cycle contributors that generate rework and impact the revenue cycle outcomes. Provides monthly reporting to senior levels of management regarding current outcomes and management plan to improve performance.
• Financial Management - Provides effective financial management of assigned areas and operates efficiently within established budgets. Pursues opportunities to reduce cost to collect through improved quality, efficiency, automation and productivity. Assists with the development and management of departmental budgets for Revenue Cycle Services to ensure optimal allocation of resources.
• Engagement, Development, & Leadership - Accountable for strategic planning, program development, labor management, and overall operational administration of assigned areas. Promotes the ongoing development of an engaged workforce within an environment of trust and respect. Ensures team members receive sufficient training for their assigned functions. Communicates timely and effectively with various levels of the organization. Includes team members in decisions that affect their work, as appropriate. Ensures that employees receive regular feedback on their performance in relation to expectations, and makes sure employees are supported in addressing their performance discrepancies. Ensures the fair and consistent application of organizational and departmental policies.
• Quality Assurance and Continuous Improvement - Ensures that all activities for assigned areas comply with government regulatory standards and third party contractual agreements. Establishes standards of quality for core functions and ensures that processes are operating within established quality standards. Consistently pursues opportunities to eliminate waste in revenue cycle processes. Ensures that changes in process or system design are documented, tested, and deployed in a quality manner. Serves as the senior business sponsor for the integration of the new billing entities and ensures that billing and collection transitions are managed with the highest quality.

Key Relationships

Reports to : RCS Specialized Director

Candidate Qualifications

Candidates for the position will be evaluated according to the following criteria and competencies.

• Requires relevant degree or certification in support of specialized functions being managed (ASN/BSN for Clinical roles, Associates Degree or Bachelors degree in Health Information Management of AHIMA/AAPC Coding credentials for coding roles, JD for legal roles, Bachelors degree in MIS or equivalent work experience with ITIL certification preferred for IT roles).
• Three years of experience with hospital or physician billing strongly preferred.
• Requires demonstrable knowledge of healthcare billing terminology concepts and processes.
• Requires the ability to pla