Revenue Cycle Cash Applications Lead

Cardinal Health; Boise (ID); On-site; USD 89,000 - 114,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental and vision coverage

Paid time off plan

Health savings account (HSA)

401k savings plan

Access to wages before pay day with my

Job summary

Cardinal Health in the United States is seeking a Manager, Revenue Cycle – Cash Applications & Payment Integrity to lead cash applications, deposit reconciliation, credit balances and refunds across DME and Pharmacy businesses.

You will design scalable processes, ensure accurate posting, and coordinate with IT, clearinghouses, Treasury and Finance to resolve payments. 5+ years in healthcare Revenue Cycle preferred. This role emphasizes automation and complex remittance routing.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on experience in healthcare Revenue Cycle, with a focus on leading the entire Cash Applications function preferred.
• Bachelor's degree in related field, or equivalent work experience, preferred.
• Comprehensive understanding of the payment lifecycle, including EFT/deposit and 835 receipt, EDI routing/splitting, reconciliation, posting, credits, refunds, and final financial control.
• Deep Revenue Cycle expertise, automation-first mindset, and ability to independently identify issues and drive solutions with minimal oversight.
• Strong expertise in 835 ERA/EFT transactions, EDI remittance workflows, payment/remittance splitting, and deposit-to-post reconciliation.
• Demonstrated aptitude in EDI/remittance splitting and complex deposit reconciliation.
• Proficiency in managing credit balances and refund processes within a healthcare environment.
• Experience with system conversions relevant to revenue cycle operations.
• A track record of implementing or leveraging automation to enhance revenue cycle efficiency.

Responsibilities

• Lead Cash Applications across DME and Pharmacy businesses, ensuring timely and accurate posting and reconciliation.
• Own end-to-end deposit reconciliation across bank deposits, EFTs, lockboxes, clearinghouses, remittance files, and Revenue Cycle platforms.
• Establish controls to ensure cash is accounted for from deposit/EFT through 835 receipt and final system posting.
• Identify and resolve missing, duplicate, misrouted, unapplied, or unreconciled payments.
• Standardize reconciliation processes, controls, SLAs, and reporting across businesses.
• Serve as the RCM operational SME for 835 ERA/EFT workflows, including receipt, routing, posting, and reconciliation.
• Understand and oversee EDI/remittance splitter functionality used to route 835 transactions across multiple businesses and systems.
• Partner with IT, clearinghouses, vendors, Treasury, and Finance to resolve missing or unmatched payments and remittances.
• Establish monitoring for failed files, splitter exceptions, unmatched EFTs, missing 835s, and reconciliation breaks.
• Understand complex transactions including PLBs, recoupments, reversals, offsets, takebacks, and $0 remits.
• Lead Cash Applications requirements and workflow design through Revenue Cycle system implementations, integrations, testing, cutover, and stabilization.
• Design scalable future-state processes for remittance routing, posting, reconciliation, and exception management.
• Drive increased ERA/EFT adoption, auto-posting, automated reconciliation, and straight-through processing.
• Proactively identify opportunities to simplify and automate manual processes.
• Oversee credit balance identification, validation, and resolution.
• Ensure appropriate handling of payer and patient refunds, recoupments, overpayments, and unapplied cash.
• Establish controls to prevent duplicate refunds, posting errors, and inappropriate adjustments.
• Partner with Finance and Compliance on financial controls and audit requirements.
• Lead and develop Cash Applications teams across multiple businesses.
• Establish productivity, quality, reconciliation, and performance standards.
• Develop KPIs around posting timeliness, reconciliation, unapplied cash, exceptions, credits, and refunds.
• Proactively identify operational risks and drive issues through resolution.
• Partner effectively across Revenue Cycle, Finance, Treasury, IT, Pharmacy, and other functions.

Skills

Cash Applications leadership

Healthcare Revenue Cycle

EFT/835 knowledge

Process improvement

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Job description

Cardinal Health in the United States is seeking a Manager, Revenue Cycle – Cash Applications & Payment Integrity to lead cash applications, deposit reconciliation, credit balances and refunds across DME and Pharmacy businesses.

You will design scalable processes, ensure accurate posting, and coordinate with IT, clearinghouses, Treasury and Finance to resolve payments. 5+ years in healthcare Revenue Cycle preferred. This role emphasizes automation and complex remittance routing.