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Company: MedStar Medical Group
Location: Columbia, MD
Career Level: Executive
Industries: Not specified

Description

The Vice President will direct and lead all aspects of patient access operations, financial, programmatic and personnel activities within the revenue cycle department and across the organization. The Vice President is responsible for ensuring a consistent, seamless, and exceptional patient financial experience. This includes designing and implementing the ideal patient financial journey from the front to the back end of the revenue cycle, in accordance with accepted national standards and policies. This leader oversees a team focused on directing operations, budgeting, financial management, human resource management, process improvement and patient financial experience and integrating improvements to achieve performance above industry standards. This role works with a variety of stakeholders including physicians and service line leaders.
Education

  • Bachelor's degree required
  • Master's degree in relevant field preferred
Experience
  • 10+ years In healthcare. required
  • Including at least seven (7) years in a management role. required
  • 15 years of management experience in healthcare, with previous experience in Patient Access. preferred
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to include the ability to negotiate and resolve conflicts, and build teams, as well as establish credibility and work effectively in a complex environment.
  • Creativity, analytic ability and conceptual skills and vision to refine and improve existing operations and to conceive design and implementation state of the art technical and operational Patient Access Design.
  • Ability to operate in high-pressure situations.
  • Ability to work collaboratively across entities, teams, and disciplines.
  • Broad knowledge of modern healthcare administration practices and principles.
  • Ability to function independently and deal with multiple, simultaneous projects.
  • Ability to demonstrate a commitment to quality and excellence.
  • Ability to delegate and still maintain close managerial and financial oversight.
  • Effective leadership abilities including but not limited to implementing change in a positive manner, planning and problem solving, self-starter, willing to try new things, good judgement and ability to act decisively at the right time.
  • Ability to interpret, evaluate and communicate policies and procedures as they relate to operations.
  • Proficient knowledge of revenue cycle operations, insurance rules, regulations.
  • Serves as a critical advisor to senior leadership on all Patient Access issues, including formulating Patient Access strategy and policies.
  • Continuously provides industry leading insights and evidence-based practices, serves as a central contact for opportunities to enhance Patient Access.
  • Directs the planning, design, and coordination of programs to achieve enterprise business operations objectives within Patient Access which may include, but is not limited to, Pre-Registration, Financial Clearance (insurance verification, benefit collection, estimate generation), Authorization, Financial Advocacy, Inpatient, Outpatient and Emergency room Registration / Check In, Bed Control.
  • Oversees department quality improvement efforts to achieve operational effectiveness, efficiency, and satisfaction of internal and external customers. External customers include patients, referring providers, physicians, and third-party payers.
  • Collaborates closely with organization executives to ensure continuous open communication about clinical operations that impact access operations.
  • Proactively manages access scorecards and service level agreements / escalations across enterprise service lines.
  • Keeps current on insurance regulations, managed care contracts billing regulations, coding, and fee schedules.
  • Creates an environment that encourages diverse opinion, recognizes differences, and incorporates into process and services.
  • Establishes annual financial goals with direct reports and actively uses benchmarking to high performing systems in similar area of expertise to set annual targets.
  • Monitors and analyzes financial data to use for decisions regarding FTE, staffing and shift allocation within operational budget. Directs and provides guidance to Associate Vice Presidents to effectively allocate resources based on volumes and goals.
  • Establishes annual operating and capital budget, demonstrating fiscal responsibility through meeting budget targets. Creates business plan(s), justifying variances and analyzing cost benefit of programs.
  • Directs the organization's charity care program and provides direction on discretionary adjustments.
  • Enterprise
  • Participate in enterprise committees and workgroups to facilitate interdepartmental activities addressing broad scope of concerns and impacts.
  • Lead and/or serve on a variety of appropriate internal and external committees to represent the entity.
  • Partner with Clinical Operations, Scheduling, and relevant stakeholders to assure operational integration of workflows, functions, and future planning for collaboration.

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