Details Department: Revenue CycleSchedule: Full-Time, Monday-FridayLocation: Remote with minimal travel
Benefits

Paid time off (PTO)
Various health insurance options & wellness plans
Retirement benefits including employer match plans
Long-term & short-term disability
Employee assistance programs (EAP)
Parental leave & adoption assistance
Tuition reimbursement
Ways to give back to your community

 

Benefit options and eligibility vary by position. Compensation varies based on factors including, but not limited to, experience, skills, education, performance and salary range at the time of the offer.

Responsibilities

Strategic Leadership & Operational Oversight

Serve as the thought leader and subject matter expert on billing best practices, payer-specific rules, and scrubber logic configuration.Lead enterprise-wide initiatives to improve first-pass yield, claim integrity, and root-cause resolution of billing-related rejections.Collaborate with patient financial services, IT/Revenue Integrity, managed care, and compliance to align billing edits with contract and regulatory requirements.Synthesize data from multiple sources (payer policies, denial trends, billing edits) to drive change and influence stakeholders across the system.

Claims Scrubber & Edit Management

Own and manage the design, implementation, and performance monitoring of billing scrubber edits in conjunction with vendor or internal IT teams.Translate complex and varied payer rules into accurate and maintainable edit logic that proactively prevents denials and underpayments.Evaluate and recommend enhancements to existing billing rules, identifying gaps and redundancies.

Collaboration & Cross-Functional Influence

Act as the key liaison between billing operations, IT, and managed care contracting to ensure system billing logic is in sync with negotiated payer terms.Partner with hospital-based revenue cycle leaders to assess claim submission processes and identify opportunities for improvement.Represent billing in enterprise governance meetings, workgroups, and payer escalations.

Analytics & Performance Monitoring

Use data-driven methods to identify performance trends, anomalies, and strategic opportunities in billing output.Develop dashboards and KPIs to monitor billing integrity, edit performance, and payer-specific reimbursement issues.Prepare and deliver executive-level presentations on billing effectiveness, scrubber optimization, and billing turnaround.
Requirements

Licensure / Certification / Registration:

Certified Coding Specialist (CCS) credentialed from the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) preferred. Licensure required relevant to state in which work is performed.

Education:

High School diploma equivalency with 3 years of cumulative experience OR Associate's degree/Bachelor's degree with 2 years of cumulative experience OR 7 years of applicable cumulative job specific experience required.3 years of leadership or management experience preferred.
Additional Preferences

Bachelor’s degree in Healthcare Administration, Business, Finance, or related field.

Minimum of 5-7 years of experience in hospital revenue cycle, with at least 3 years in a billing leadership or consulting/vendor role.

Deep understanding of hospital claims billing (UB-04), billing systems, and scrubber/claim editing platforms (e.g., Craneware, XClaim, Optum, nThrive, Experian).

Demonstrated experience translating payer rules into billing edits or configuration logic.

Proven track record of cross-functional leadership and influencing change in complex, matrixed environments.

Knowledge of Epic, Serner, or other enterprise billing systems.

Familiarity with Medicare, Medicaid, and commercial payer rules at both national and local levels.

Experience in payer contracting or revenue integrity a strong plus.

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Why Join Our Team

Ascension associates are key to our commitment of transforming healthcare and providing care to all, especially those most in need. Join us and help us drive impact through reimagining how we can deliver a people-centered healthcare experience and creating the solutions to do it. Explore career opportunities across our ministry locations and within our corporate headquarters.

 

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