Revenue Cycle Operations Manager - Epic Medical Billing

Manager

Huron helps its clients drive growth, enhance performance and sustain leadership in the markets they serve. We help healthcare organizations build innovation capabilities and accelerate key growth initiatives, enabling organizations to own the future, instead of being disrupted by it. Together, we empower clients to create sustainable growth, optimize internal processes and deliver better consumer outcomes.

Health systems, hospitals and medical clinics are under immense pressure to improve clinical outcomes and reduce the cost of providing patient care. Investing in new partnerships, clinical services and technology is not enough to create meaningful and substantive change. To succeed long-term, healthcare organizations must empower leaders, clinicians, employees, affiliates and communities to build cultures that foster innovation to achieve the best outcomes for patients.

Joining the Huron team means you'll help our clients evolve and adapt to the rapidly changing healthcare environment and optimize existing business operations, improve clinical outcomes, create a more consumer-centric healthcare experience, and drive physician, patient and employee engagement across the enterprise.

Join our team as the expert you are now and create your future.

Essential Business Functions :

• Knows, understands, incorporates, and demonstrates the Huron mission, vision, and values in behaviors, practices, and decisions
• Provides guidance and direction to teams in order to achieve optimal area performance and staff productivity goals as part of the revenue cycle process of HMS Business Office
• Ensures staffs carry out duties and responsibilities in an effective manner, which in turn promotes maximized reimbursement based upon services delivered
• Identifies and implements solutions to problems and issues affecting teams
• Focuses efforts of staffs on proactive practices, which includes coordinating with other departments as necessary to resolve issues and reviewing and responding to all mail correspondence in a timely and efficient manner
• Identifies and participates in continuous quality improvement initiatives in order to streamline processes
• Participates in the redesign of processes and systems to improve service, data integrity, and staff productivity / quality to achieve departmental goals and process outcomes
• Reviews and tracks trends and makes recommendations for problem and issue resolutions based upon staff findings; reports findings to leadership
• Prepares service level metrics and explanatory summaries for leadership
• Evaluates potential new staff and makes recommendations for hiring
• Assists with identifying training needs and coordinating with department trainer to develop and conduct training programs, including on-the-job training.
• Assists with establishing performance standards. Monitors and tracks staff activities against established performance standards and provides immediate feedback to achieve performance improvement
• Develops and conducts meaningful performance appraisals. Identifies staff performance issues, i.e., absenteeism, tardiness, etc. and conducts appropriate counseling / disciplinary sessions. Develops and documents improvement plan identifying necessary training and development for staff in order to achieve superior performance through formal education, competency reviews, classroom training, on the job training and coaching.
• Adheres to all department and organization policies, procedures, and best practices
• Maintains working knowledge of applicable Federal, State, and local laws and regulations
• Completes other duties as needed and assigned

Core Qualifications :

Work Environment :

This job operates in a professional office environment.

This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets and fax machines.

Physical Demands :

This role requires remaining seated at a desk / computer for 8 hours daily; repetitive use of computer keyboard and mouse; use of computer monitors for 8 hours daily; interaction though video / audio conference calls and possible use of a headset with microphone; very rarely duties might require the ability to lift up to 20 pounds and bending & standing for periods at a time.

The estimated salary range for this job is $90,000- $125,000. The range represents a good faith estimate of the range that Huron reasonably expects to pay for this job at the time of the job posting. The actual salary paid to an individual will vary based on multiple factors, including but not limited to specific skills or certifications, years of experience, market changes and required travel. This job is also eligible to participate in Huron's annual incentive compensation program, which reflects Huron's pay for performance philosophy and Huron's benefit plans which include medical, dental and vision coverage and other wellness programs. The salary range information provided is in accordance with applicable state and local laws regarding salary transparency that are currently in effect and may be implemented in the future.