St Francis Medical Center

Regional Director, Patient Access

St Francis Medical Center$93K — $134K *
Healthcare
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • High school diploma or equivalent; Bachelor’s degree required.
  • 2-3 years experience as a Director in Admitting in an acute care facility required.
  • 5-8 years of management and leadership experience preferred.
  • Must have expertise in regulatory standards relevant to Admitting areas, including OSHPD, CMS, and EMTALA regulations.
  • EPIC implementation experience is required.

Responsibilities

  • Provide leadership and guidance to Prime Healthcare Admitting and Patient Accounting Departments.
  • Manage daily work queue volume, prioritizing revenue-critical tasks.
  • Monitor registration defects to address issues at the source.
  • Design and optimize the Patient Access workflow across various processes.
  • Document and maintain standardized work procedures for registration functions.
  • Ensure local workflows align with enterprise standards.
  • Validate workflow changes and confirm staff competency post-deployment.

Benefits

  • Paid time off
  • 401K retirement plan
  • Medical, dental, and vision coverage
  • Tuition reimbursement
  • Voluntary benefit options
Full Job Description
Responsibilities

The Corporate Regional Director of Patient Access provides leadership, direction, and administrative guidance to all Prime Healthcare Admitting Areas in all aspects of the Admitting department as well as all Patient Accounting Department as it relates to issues that flow from admitting to the Patient Accounting Departments.  This includes all registration functions within relevant admitting areas of the hospital, Information Desk, financial counseling, Insurance Verification Cashier processes, hospital mail processes as well as the PBX areas.  Is responsible for all Standardized Training and Education as it relates to all Prime Healthcare Admitting and PFS departments as directed.  Functions as the Corporate Admitting Core Team Leader for implementations, and conversions; responsible for the development of training materials.  Supports Corporate PFS Director as directed.

 

Key Duties:

 

  • Demonstrated operational proficiency in Epic (Grand Central, Prelude, Cadence) in a live production environment; implementation or optimization experience preferred 
  • Manages daily work queue volume and aging to established thresholds, prioritizing revenue-critical queues (registrations edits, eligibility/COB, authorization, MSP) before claim submission deadlines
  • Monitors work queue trending to identify systemic registration defects and drives correction at the source rath than at the rework stage
  • Owns end to end Patient Access workflow design across scheduling, preregistering, financial clearance arrival/check, check in and ED registration 
  • Documents and maintains click-level standard work for each registration workflow, ensuring consistency across all access points and shits
  • Align local workflows to enterprise standards
  • Validates workflow changes in ERH before deployment and confirms staff competency post-change through audit
  • Partners with other departments to close authorization gaps ahead of day of service

 

Qualifications

EDUCATION, EXPERIENCE, TRAINING

 

  • High school diploma or equivalent; Bachelor’s degree required.
  • Two (2) to three (3) years experience as a Director in the Admitting areas of an acute care facility required, with management and leadership experience of five (5) to eight (8) years preferred.
  • Preferred Skills and Abilities: Must be able to demonstrate understanding of and ability to interpret regulatory standards as they apply to the Admitting areas as well as OSHPD, CMS and EMTALA regulations.  Strong organizational skills required for effective communication with Prime Healthcare Services Corporate, Prime Healthcare Associates, physicians, public, staff and local administrations.  Must be able to work in fast paced environment with frequent interruptions.
  • EPIC implementation required.
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    Pay Transparency

    Prime Healthcare offers competitive compensation and a comprehensive benefits package that provides employees the flexibility to tailor benefits according to their individual needs. Our Total Rewards package includes, but is not limited to, paid time off, a 401K retirement plan, medical, dental, and vision coverage, tuition reimbursement, and many more voluntary benefit options.  Benefits may vary based on employment status, i.e. full-time, part-time, per diem or temporary.  A reasonable compensation estimate for this role, which includes estimated wages, benefits, and other forms of compensation, is $93,080 to $134,804 on an annualized basis. The exact starting compensation to be offered will be determined at the time of selecting an applicant for hire, in which a wide range of factors will be considered, including but not limited to, skillset, years of applicable experience, education, credentials and licensure.

     

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    About St Francis Medical Center

    St. Francis Medical Center is a for-profit hospital in Lynwood, California, United States, owned by Prime Healthcare Services.
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