Patient Access Manager - Healthcare Managed Services (Mendocino, CA) Job at Huron Consulting Group Inc.
The Opportunity
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.
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.
Position Summary
Adventist Health’s Revenue Cycle Operations are jointly operated by Huron Healthcare and Adventist Health. Huron manages the operations and provides the Revenue Cycle leadership (managers and above are employed by Huron), while Revenue Cycle associates are employed by Adventist. Market leaders and hospital, clinic, and physician leadership across Adventist’s 21 hospitals and 300+ clinics, are key stakeholders for the Revenue Cycle Operations and critical factors to ongoing Revenue Cycle success.
Qualifications
The Patient Access Manager supervises reception and patient access representatives at Adventist Health's Mendocino Coast Hospital. Directs operational interactions between patient scheduling department and other hospital departments, physician offices, and off-site entities. Review, analyze, and correct account errors. Supervise insurance with verification authorization staff with pre-registration activities. Consult with registration staff and medical staff on ways to improve patient satisfaction and survey results. Lead initiatives and operations with hospital leadership representatives from facilities associated with patient account services. Provide input for process design and other implementation activities. The Patient Access Manager leads the productivity of department operations, and direct efforts to ensure successful outcomes. Monitor quality and productivity through reporting and associate management, identifying trends and operational deficiencies, and manage corrective action plans as necessary to ensure successful outcomes. Identify escalation points as reported by team and patient office or client. Manage to and optimize standardized workflows across the billing process and solution capabilities. Identify opportunities to allocate resources cross-functionally, including people, data, processes and financial investments, to achieve the optimal workflow and outcomes. Seek to understand disagreements, ensure all perspectives are heard and facilitate a plan for resolution. Delegate the work appropriately, provide clear expectations and follow up to ensure progress and overcome roadblocks. Identify associates and team priorities based on business direction and adjust when needed. Lead by example and share knowledge and experiences with associates and team. Create a respectful work environment where you advocate for your team, create accountability and recognize their accomplishments. Provide timely feedback to encourage success, ensure accountability, and connect opportunities for your associates’ development. Identify the right talent to achieve the desired results. Promote and build a diverse cohesive team to accomplish objectives and align associates' skills to fill gaps.
The position is an operational, on-site position at our partner Adventist Health's Mendocino location. The ideal candidate must reside or be willing to relocate to Northern California.
**Huron is currently offering hiring incentives for this position.
DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Coordinate with the patient financial services team in the operations of daily job responsibilities
- Develop, recommend, and oversee the implementation and administration of policies and procedures of respective area
- Evaluate process and procedures and coordinate with the management team to ensure efficient areas of focus adhere to federal and local laws and regulations
- Demonstrate, through plans and actions, a consistent standard of excellence to which all department work is expected to conform
- Focus on continuous improvement working with the Lead Manager and respective teams Managers across the Health System with a goal of delivering the highest degree of quality service possible
- Provide support for Human Resource guidance
- Complete, review, manage and monitor department budget
- Directs and leads the patient financial services team in the daily operations
- Performs other duties as assigned
The estimated salary range for this job is $70,000 - $90,000. 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.
Posting Category
Healthcare
Opportunity Type
Regular
Country
United States of America
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