System Vice President (VP) - Revenue Cycle

Location:

Avera Health

Worker Type:

Regular

Work Shift:

Primarily days with night, weekend and holiday on-call involvement (United States of America)

Position Highlights

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You Belong at Avera

Be part of a multidisciplinary team built with compassion and the goal of Moving Health Forward for you and our patients. Work where you matter.

A Brief Overview

Oversee revenue cycle operations across the enterprise, from scheduling through the final adjudication of the bill for acute, ambulatory, @Home, Long Term Care, Federally Qualified Health Centers, and bad debt patient collections. The System VP of Revenue Cycle is accountable for developing and communicating the Revenue Cycle strategic vision and, in collaboration with the leadership team, will develop goals to achieve organizational objectives. This position is responsible for delivering revenue cycle financial results, meeting key performance metrics, and improving overall operational efficiency while providing a world class patient experience. The System VP Revenue Cycle will champion consolidation and coordination efforts across the enterprise, working to maximize gains from current and future technological and staffing investments.

What you will do

• Develop and execute the vision and strategy defining Avera's approach to revenue cycle operations, hardwiring accountability for revenue across the enterprise.
• Be responsible for revenue cycle initiatives across the health system, both internally and externally, setting departmental budgets, attending executive meetings, sharing progress, barriers, and key decision points.
• Lead overall strategy for continued revenue cycle consolidation across the enterprise, promoting best practice process improvements across cost and technology opportunities.
• Champion change, continuously pushing team leaders to think creatively, solve complex challenges and drive efforts to address barriers ensuring efficiency in organizational design that leverage success from industry leaders.
• Instill a culture of collaboration across all business lines, nurturing relationships with department leadership, encouraging adoption of best practices, leveraging industry and organizational knowledge to foresee risks and barriers.
• Establish KPI performance targets for teams that will drive achievement of overall financial goals, shouldering accountability for meeting these targets and consistently communicating progress and risks to executive leadership.
• Challenge the organization and your subordinates to identify innovative processes that pioneer the patient financial experience, approving all policies and procedures that govern the revenue cycle and collection efforts.
• Provide effective human resource management by attracting top talent, while assessing, mentoring and growing staff expertise and efficiencies from within. Responsible for revenue cycle technology landscape and associated investments and returns.
• Responsible for revenue cycle technology landscape and associated investments and returns. Routinely evaluate Avera’s landscape, staying apprised of new technologies and their associated gains, and lead the development of comprehensive business cases to drive decision making
• Coordinate with other executives to assess the viability and risk of future acquisition targets and efforts associated with potential integration into Avera's broader revenue cycle landscape.
• Responsibilities include interviewing, hiring, developing, training, and retaining employees; planning, assigning, and leading work; appraising performance; rewarding and coaching employees; addressing complaints and resolving problems.

Essential Qualifications

The individual must be able to work the hours specified. To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential job function satisfactorily including having visual acuity adequate to perform position duties and the ability to communicate effectively with others, hear, understand and distinguish speech and other sounds. These requirements and those listed above are representative of the knowledge, skills, and abilities required to perform the essential job functions. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential job functions, as long as the accommodations do not cause undue hardship to the employer.

Required Education, License/Certification, or Work Experience:

• Bachelor's Business, Finance, Accounting or related field
• 10 years of revenue cycle experience.

Preferred Education, License/Certification, or Work Experience:

• Master's

Expectations and Standards

• Commitment to the daily application of Avera’s mission, vision, core values, and social principles to serve patients, their families, and our community.
• Promote Avera’s values of compassion, hospitality, and stewardship.
• Uphold Avera’s standards of Communication, Attitude, Responsiveness, and Engagement (CARE) with enthusiasm and sincerity.
• Maintain confidentiality.
• Work effectively in a team environment, coordinating work flow with other team members and ensuring a productive and efficient environment.
• Comply with safety principles, laws, regulations, and standards associated with, but not limited to, CMS, The Joint Commission, DHHS, and OSHA if applicable.

Benefits You Need & Then Some

Avera is proud to offer a wide range of benefits to qualifying part-time and full-time employees. We support you with opportunities to help live balanced, healthy lives. Benefits are designed to meet needs of today and into the future.

• PTO front-loaded for eligible hires

• Free health insurance options, for full-time single coverage on Avera High Deductible Health Plan

• Up to 5% employer matching contribution for retirement

• Career development guided by hands-on training and mentorship

Avera is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer Minority/Female/Disabled/Veteran/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity. If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request an accommodation for help with your online application, please call 1-605-504-4444 or send an email to talent@avera.org.