Revenue Cycle Executive Director

University of North Texas Health at Fort Worth; Fort Worth (TX); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

University of North Texas Health at Fort Worth seeks an Executive Director, Business Services (Revenue Cycle) to lead revenue cycle operations, patient financial services, electronic health record operations and related business applications.

The role collaborates with clinical, operational, finance, compliance, and technology leaders to establish performance standards and drive improvements in financial performance and patient experience.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Business Administration or Public Administration and seven (7) years related experience.
• Knowledge of healthcare revenue cycle, reimbursement, billing compliance, and electronic health record systems.
• Strong leadership, communication, collaboration, and change-management skills.

Responsibilities

• Provides executive leadership, direction, and oversight of revenue cycle operations through the Directors and Managers responsible for these functions, including charge capture, coding, claims submission, payment posting, denial management, accounts receivable, patient billing, collections, and resolution of patient balances.
• Develops and executes a comprehensive revenue cycle and revenue integrity strategy aligned with organizational financial, clinical, access, compliance, and patient experience goals.
• Establishes and delegates implementation of goals, objectives, policies, procedures, workflows, internal controls, and systems for assigned revenue cycle functions.
• Establishes, monitors, analyzes, and reports key revenue cycle performance indicators to assess operational effectiveness, identify trends, prioritize improvement opportunities, and support executive decision-making.
• Oversees revenue integrity and reimbursement optimization activities to support accurate charge capture, compliant documentation and coding, appropriate reimbursement, and timely identification and resolution of revenue leakage.
• Provides executive oversight of electronic health record operations, business applications, and revenue cycle technology platforms.
• Partners with managed care, finance, legal, compliance, and operational leaders on third-party payer negotiations, reimbursement methodologies, contract implementation, and payer performance management.
• Drives cash acceleration, appropriate net revenue performance, and long-range revenue cycle planning by improving assigned mid-cycle and back-end functions.
• Implements and maintains standardized revenue cycle policies, controls, and procedures consistent with federal and state regulations, payer requirements, CMS guidance, HIPAA, coding and billing standards, price transparency requirements, patient financial protection regulations, and applicable audit standards.

Skills

Revenue cycle management

Strategic planning

Financial analysis

Operations analysis

Vendor management

Leadership

Communication

Change management

Performance data interpretation

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Business Administration or Public Administration

Master's degree (preferred)

Job description

University of North Texas Health at Fort Worth seeks an Executive Director, Business Services (Revenue Cycle) to lead revenue cycle operations, patient financial services, electronic health record operations and related business applications.

The role collaborates with clinical, operational, finance, compliance, and technology leaders to establish performance standards and drive improvements in financial performance and patient experience.