Manager, Access Services- Patient Engagement Center

Albany Med

$70K — $108K *
Healthcare
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree required.
  • CHAM certification or acquire within first 2 years.
  • 5-7 years of supervisory experience in Hospital, Practice, or Patient Billing.
  • Experience in Revenue Cycle Operations, particularly with healthcare call center roles.
  • Demonstrated dedication to a patient-centered service approach.

Responsibilities

  • Manage daily operations of Pre-Service functions including scheduling and financial clearance.
  • Ensure staff effectively execute appointment scheduling and authorization processes.
  • Monitor and analyze daily metrics to meet key performance indicators.
  • Adapt staffing and processes to enhance operational efficiency.
  • Lead and develop a team committed to patient-centered service.

Benefits

  • Promote a strong team and patient-centered approach.
  • Engagement in creating a high-functioning team environment.
  • Opportunity for professional development in revenue cycle best practices.
  • Potential for CHAM certification support within first 2 years.
Full Job Description
Department/Unit:
Patient Engagement Center

Work Shift:
Evening (United States of America)

Salary Range:
$70,068.00 - $108,605.00

The position is responsible for the daily operations of the Pre-Service functions of the Patient Engagement Center - related to the appointment scheduling, eligibility verification, pre-registration, authorization and financial clearance needs for Practice and Hospital Services. Ensuring staff are executing actions necessary to timely scheduling and authorization/financial clearing meet our patients and provider expectations. Significant attention to daily metrics, ensuring necessary staffing and process modifications are made to ensure key performance indicators for pre-service revenue cycle best practice are met. Management of a high-functioning team, promoting a strong team and patient centered approach for recruitment and retention.

Education:
• Bachelor's Degree, required.

Licensure, Certification & Registration:
• CHAM (or acquired within first 2 - years).

Experience:
• 5 - 7 years supervisor experience Hospital, Practice or Patient Billing specific to appointment and service scheduling.
• Revenue Cycle Operation experience including healthcare call center experience with demonstrated patient-centered approach to best practice appointment scheduling process.

Skills, Knowledge & Abilities:
• Demonstrated success in the development of a patient-centered environment; promoting and instilling all actions are to promote the optimal patient experience.
• Revenue Cycle Management to include direct experience with denial prevention including but not limited to third party payer contractual agreements and Practice and Hospital Billing Regulations; review billing edits for long term approach for resolution at time of scheduling.
• Demonstrate critical thinking and ability for successful service recovery.
• Excellent attention to detail and ensuring all procedures are followed for best practice pre-service (revenue cycle) processes; with strong analytical skill to identify process fail points and improvement measurement implementation.
• Ability to think on your feet with solution to immediate patient complaints; focus of service recovery.
• Ability to lead, motivate and inspire team to achieve excellence in best practice revenue cycle principles.
• Understand system integration and optimizing system functionality for efficiency in workflow.
• Ability to create daily, weekly, monthly dashboards for ease of identifying revenue cycle vulnerabilities; create cash targets for point of service collection.
• Multi-tasking in a high stress environment with ability to meet mission critical expectations.

The position is responsible for the daily operations of the Pre-Service functions of the Patient Engagement Center - related to the appointment scheduling, eligibility verification, pre-registration, authorization and financial clearance needs for Practice and Hospital Services. Ensuring staff are executing actions necessary to timely scheduling and authorization/financial clearing meet our patients and provider expectations. Significant attention to daily metrics, ensuring necessary staffing and process modifications are made to ensure key performance indicators for pre-service revenue cycle best practice are met. Management of a high-functioning team, promoting a strong team and patient centered approach for recruitment and retention.

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