What are the responsibilities and job description for the Assistant Director of Finance position at KINGS COUNTY HOSPITAL?
SHIFT: (9:00AM – 5:00PM)
PURPOSE OF POSITION
The Assistant Director provides management oversight of all charge capture and revenue integrity activities including, but not limited to regulatory compliance audits, charge integrity assessments, charge description master reviews, and other operations support activities. The Assistant Director also acts as a liaison between the clinical and operational leadership. This position will have a specific focus on revenue integrity teams with the goal to enhance effectiveness of patient net revenue realization and minimize revenue leakage across the system. This involves complete capture of patient revenue in every area that generates charges, management in relation to charging mechanisms and triggers.
AREAS OF RESPONSIBILITIES
Revenue and Clinical Integrity
Revenue Capture
Analytics
Finance
Revenue Management
SUMMARY OF DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
- Serves as a liaison between the clinical and operational leadership.
- Leads, manages and improves processes, policies and procedures, and technologies.
- Works collaboratively with numerous other system leaders in developing and implementing systems and processes to support quality patient care.
- Assist as a team member in the development, implementation and maintenance of internal controls and policies to maintain sound billing practices.
- Establish best practice protocols and highest quality outcomes.
- Provides leadership, feedback, coaching, counseling, guidance and direction on management of Revenue Integrity Operations (account and claim edit management), missing charges, charge trigger methodology, and charge capture.
- Communicates performance opportunities/issues to inform management and staff at all levels; Investigates and advises on matters relating to technical or professional billing, coding, or regulatory requirements in turn for documentation, charge capture or coding activities.
- Leads and conducts focused charge capture on varies topic and compliance aspects. Develop, assesses, and adapts clear and effective revenue cycle procedures, training, communications an awareness material from a compliance prospective.
- Assist in the development of goals and objectives, policies, procedures to improve performance Attend budget meetings to ensure the department stays within budget. Maintain departmental daily operations.
- Manages, prepares and analyzes data driven reports.
- Includes any duties assigned by the Director of Fiscal Affairs.
Minimum Qualifications:
1. Master’s degree from an accredited college or university in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration or a related discipline with an emphasis on accounting and financial systems; and two (2) years of responsible-level experience in fiscal management or administration with an emphasis on financial systems, management information and controls, one (1) year of which must have been in a responsible administrative or managerial capacity; or
2. Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university in disciplines, as listed in “1” above; and three (3) years of experience, as described in “1” above, one (1) year of which must have been in a responsible administrative or managerial capacity.
BENEFITS:
NYC Health and Hospitals offers a competitive benefits package that includes:
- Comprehensive Health Benefits for employees hired to work 20 hrs. per week
- Retirement Savings and Pension Plans
- Loan Forgiveness Programs for eligible employees
- Paid Holidays and Vacation in accordance with employees' Collectively bargained contracts
- College tuition discounts and professional development opportunities
- Multiple employee discounts programs