Head of Revenue Cycle Operations

Special

$150K — $180K *
Healthcare
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 7+ years in healthcare operations, revenue cycle, or related leadership roles.
  • Experience standardizing operations across multiple locations or business units.
  • Understanding of Medicare, Medicaid, claims, and accounts receivable processes.
  • Highly technical with ability to define system requirements and work with engineers.
  • Detail-oriented and process-focused with a proactive mindset.
  • High energy and personal ownership to excel in a demanding culture.
  • Strong people management skills with a proven track record of developing teams.

Responsibilities

  • Build and design the central operating model for intake-to-cash.
  • Assess acquired agencies and execute integration into a standard model.
  • Manage performance from referral receipt to final collection.
  • Define standard operating procedures and ensure operational discipline.
  • Develop a comprehensive KPI system for accountability across teams.
  • Partner with engineering to automate operational workflows and improve efficiency.
  • Maintain compliance and quality in billing and coding processes.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to create and shape a new operating system across the organization.
  • Work in an entrepreneurial and fast-paced environment with high expectations.
  • Collaborate with innovative engineering teams on automation projects.
  • Ability to impact healthcare operations at a national scale.
  • Access to leadership role with potential for rapid organizational growth.
Full Job Description
The Role

We are hiring a hands-on healthcare systems builder to design, recruit, and run Figure Health's centralized intake-to-cash organization across our acquisitions nationwide. This is not a traditional billing-management role. You will own the workflows, people, controls, metrics, and technology spanning referral intake, insurance verification, authorizations, order management, coding and OASIS review, scheduling operations, QA, billing, cash posting, denials, accounts receivable, and related administrative functions.

You will inherit fragmented processes across acquired agencies and turn them into one high-performing operating system. You must be equally comfortable mapping a broken workflow, managing a large distributed team, reviewing payer-level performance, and working directly with engineers to automate repetitive work.

What You Will Own
  • Build the function: design the central operating model; recruit and manage leaders and teams across intake, authorization, order tracking, coding, QA, scheduling support, billing, collections, and denials.
  • Integrate acquisitions: assess each agency's people, processes, systems, backlog, payer rules, and control environment; create and execute the migration plan into Figure's standard model.
  • Run intake-to-cash: own performance from referral receipt through eligibility, authorization, scheduling readiness, documentation completion, coding, clean claim submission, payment, denial resolution, and final collection.
  • Create operating discipline: define SOPs, work queues, service levels, staffing models, escalation paths, quality checks, and daily/weekly management cadences.
  • Own the numbers: build a single KPI system by agency, payer, branch, and workflow; diagnose misses quickly and hold teams accountable for corrective action.
  • Automate aggressively: partner with Special's engineering and forward-deployed teams to translate operational pain into product requirements, deploy automation, and measure realized impact.
  • Protect quality and compliance: ensure billing, coding, documentation, authorization, and QA processes are accurate, auditable, and compliant with Medicare, Medicaid, commercial payer, and state requirements.
  • Manage vendors and systems: select, negotiate with, and oversee EHR, clearinghouse, coding, billing, eligibility, and other operating partners while reducing unnecessary complexity.
  • Scale nationally: create a repeatable operating model that can support rapid acquisition volume without linear growth in overhead or deterioration in patient experience.


What Success Looks Like
  • First 30 days: map every workflow, team, system, backlog, and KPI at each acquired agency; identify immediate cash, quality, and staffing interventions.
  • First 90 days: establish common scorecards and daily management; stabilize high-risk workflows; finalize the central-operations org design and hiring plan; launch the first automation priorities.
  • First 12 months: operate one scalable intake-to-cash model across acquisitions, with faster referral response, cleaner claims, lower denial rates, reduced A/R, stronger labor productivity, and auditable quality controls.


The Ideal Candidate
  • 7+ years in healthcare operations, revenue cycle, shared services, implementation, or a closely related function, including meaningful leadership of managers and frontline teams.
  • Experience in revenue cycle, patient access, claims, clinical operations, or another operationally complex healthcare workflow; home-health expertise is helpful but not required.
  • Working knowledge of Medicare, Medicaid, managed care, authorizations, claims, denials, and accounts receivable; familiarity with PDGM, OASIS, or home-health coding is a plus.
  • Demonstrated success standardizing operations across multiple locations, business units, acquisitions, or payer environments.
  • Highly technical and data-fluent: able to define system requirements, understand integrations and data flows, interrogate dashboards, and partner credibly with engineers.
  • Exceptionally process-oriented, detail-obsessed, and comfortable going several levels deeper than a typical executive.
  • Insanely high energy, with the urgency, stamina, and personal ownership to thrive in an intense, Elon-style operating culture.
  • A builder with low ego and extreme agency - willing to personally solve problems before delegating them and then create a system that makes the solution repeatable.
  • Strong recruiter and people manager who can set a high bar, build trust, create accountability, and develop a durable leadership bench.
  • Comfortable in an acquisition-driven, fast-changing environment with incomplete information and high expectations.
  • Exceptional academic achievement from a highly selective university is preferred; equivalent evidence of unusual achievement and intellectual horsepower is equally compelling.
  • Based in Austin or willing to relocate; regular travel to acquired agencies is required.

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