Overseeing and managing all aspects of professional charge functions to ensure the integrity of the organization’s revenue
Summarizing findings to support the development of processes and procedures
Collaborating with Revenue Cycle, Clinical Departments, and Finance to ensure accurate revenue capture, compliance, and optimization
Supporting the ongoing integrity of charge activity inclusive of technical and operational workflow and functionalities
Managing all facets of professional revenue integrity processes to achieve and exceed best practice benchmarks
Serving as liaison between revenue cycle and clinical departments
Ensuring a process is in place to reconcile charges back to the daily ancillary and clinic patient schedules
Monitoring daily reconciliation reports to assist departments in maintaining accurate and timely charges
Maintaining current working knowledge of billing systems, claim submission, remittance advices, explanation of benefits, reimbursement methodology, payer systems, payer requirements, general coding, APC, CPT and HCPCs
Closely monitoring volumes and performance of charge review work queues, charge edits, and reports while actively seeking opportunity, deficiencies, and improvement strategies
Supporting best practices for professional services coding and clinical documentation
Participating in corrective actions in response to variances and trends
Ensuring that the activities of the professional revenue integrity team are conducted in a manner that is consistent with overall department protocol, Policies and Procedures, and are in compliance with Federal, State, and payer regulations, guidelines, and requirements
Managing staffing levels and productivity
Providing team communication regarding department updates, organizational activities, financial performance, educational opportunities, interdepartmental activities, and QI activities
Ensuring the recruitment, training, and retention of motivated, competent revenue integrity analysts; establishing goals and standards for performance appraisals
Complying with HIPAA and all relevant laws, rules regulations and accreditation standards and requirements
Requirements
Previous Revenue Integrity experience preferred
Experience working for a large healthcare system highly preferred
Must have Epic experience
prefer a super-user
Well-rounded and extensive background in Revenue Cycle
Heavy project management experience
Extensive data analysis capabilities
Knowledge of medical coding would be helpful
Open to candidates with front end business office experience and back end Revenue Cycle experience
Five (5) years of Physician/Professional Billing experience required
Three (3) years in a management or supervisory level position for a large health system preferred
Extensive knowledge and experience with Epic EMR system, specifically with EPIC Resolute Billing with a large health system
Experience in Charge Capture, Charge Reconciliation, and Charge Pricing
Comprehensive understanding of healthcare billing and coding systems (e.g., HCPCS, ICD-10)
Supervisory and mentoring skills necessary to provide support to department and promote employee development
Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel and other Microsoft Business applications (i.e. Word, PowerPoint)