Description
Vanderbilt University Medical Center Executive Search is conducting a national search for a Director, Revenue Cycle Process Improvement. This is a Leadership level role and requires extensive healthcare revenue cycle experience as well as process improvement, and billing compliance. Experience must include demonstrated accomplishments for technology-driven automated process improvements in a large-scale healthcare organization, exceptional change management skills, extensive system / operational integration. This role requires the ability to build relationships within the organization but maintain an uncompromising drive and sense of urgency to deliver results.
J OB SUMMARY: Director Revenue Cycle Leadership
Vanderbilt University Medical Center Executive Search is conducting a national search for a Director, Revenue Cycle Process Improvement. This is a Leadership level role and requires extensive healthcare revenue cycle experience as well as process improvement, and billing compliance. Experience must include demonstrated accomplishments for technology-driven automated process improvements in a large-scale healthcare organization, exceptional change management skills, extensive system / operational integration. This role requires the ability to build relationships within the organization but maintain an uncompromising drive and sense of urgency to deliver results.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Use data and technology for both discovery and sustainable change.
- Identify, communicate, and align overall strategy for department improvement across the system. Develop departmental strategies to meet Revenue Cycle and VUMC goals and performance metrics.
- Act as primary departmental leader with responsibilities for optimizing the Epic system to improve revenue cycle performance.
- Engage with Revenue Cycle Executive Leadership to identify opportunities to enhance operational workflow efficiencies, improve Epic system functionality, increase patient satisfaction, and reduce costs associated with revenue cycle functions.
- Ensure that the Revenue Cycle Process Improvement department resources focus on projects aligned with Revenue Cycle and VUMC strategic, financial, and patient service objectives. Lead efforts to plan and implement solutions to address those opportunities. Assign and prioritize department resources to relevant projects.
- Formulate and administer system-level policies and procedures related to revenue cycle functions.
- Ensure management compliance with documented and established workflow guidelines and procedures.
- Take a leadership role in technology implementations affecting the Revenue Cycle. Assist in the identification of innovative technologies that will improve revenue cycle operations.
- Participate in developing the departmental long-term and short-term goals, objectives, plans, policies, and procedures.
- Foster an environment of high performance and accountability within all Revenue Cycle areas, leveraging technology and innovation to streamline operations and ensure the sustainability of improvements.
- Compliance Activities:
- Establish a process for compliance with relevant regulations, standards, and directive from regulatory agencies and third-party payers
- Establish consistent and standardized compliance audit methodology for sample selection, scoring and benchmarking, development and reporting of findings, and repayment calculations.
Discover Vanderbilt University Medical Center:
Located in Nashville, Tennessee, and operating at a global crossroads of teaching, discovery and patient care, VUMC is a community of individuals who come to work each day with the simple aim of changing the world. It is a place where your expertise will be valued, your knowledge expanded and your abilities challenged. It is a place where your diversity -- of culture, thinking, learning and leading -- is sought and celebrated. It is a place where employees know they are part of something that is bigger than themselves, take exceptional pride in their work and never settle for what was good enough yesterday. Vanderbilt's mission is to advance health and wellness through preeminent programs in patient care, education, and research.
VUMC Recent Accomplishments
Because we are committed to providing the best in patient care, education and research, we are proud of our recent accomplishments:
* US News & World Report: #1 Adult Hospital in Tennessee and metropolitan Nashville, named to the Best Hospitals Honor Roll of the top 20 adult hospitals, 10 nationally ranked adult specialty programs, with 3 specialties rated in the top 10 nationally, Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt named as one of the Best Children's Hospital in the nation, with 10 out of 10 pediatric specialties nationally ranked.
* Healthcare's Most Wired: Among the nation's 100 "most-wired" hospitals and health systems for its efforts in innovative medical technology.
* Becker's Hospital Review: named as one of the "100 Great Hospitals in America", in the roster of 100 Hospitals and Health Systems with Great Oncology Programs and to its list of the 100 Hospitals with Great Heart Programs.
* The Leapfrog Group: One of only 10 children's hospitals in the to be named at Leapfrog Top Hospital.
* American Association for the Advancement of Science: The School of Medicine has 112 elected fellows
* Magnet Recognition Program: Received our third consecutive Magnet designations.
* National Academy of Medicine: 22 members, elected by their peers in recognition of outstanding achievement
* Human Rights Campaign Healthcare Equality Index: 6 th year in a row that Vanderbilt University Medical Center was a Leader in LGBTQ Healthcare Equality.
