Stanford Health Care · 1 day ago
Manager - Patient Financial Clearance (Remote)
United States
Full-time
Remote
Mid, Senior Level
$55.85/hr - $74/hr
5+ years expStanford Health Care is seeking a Manager for Patient Financial Clearance who will be responsible for overseeing the patient financial clearance functions, including pre-registration and payer authorization. The role involves ensuring efficient operations, staff training, and compliance with regulations to optimize the revenue cycle.
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Responsibilities
Ensures financial clearance functions are performed efficiently throughout the Patient Access services enterprise, which includes maintaining an adequately trained staff to handle all patients in both inpatient and outpatient clinic settings
Financial Clearance functions include but are not limited to, pre-registration tasks such as, insurance verification, insurance benefits data, regulatory requirements, i.e. Medicare Secondary Payer Questionnaire (MSQP), Advanced Beneficiary Notice (ABN) securing payer authorizations, collecting payments for upcoming services/residual balances to financially secure all applicable accounts
Provides financial clearance service approach for patients and family from point of contact through charging. Utilizes feedback and needs assessment tools to understand internal customer expectations. Strives to provide services that exceed expectations and works to eliminate barriers to good service. Maintains relations with all internal applicable parties, third party payers, and other agencies, as appropriate
Maintains a complete record of current policies and procedures followed by staff in the director’s areas of responsibility; responsible for having complete knowledge of the patient flow and steps taken by staff to complete these procedures; assures that staff is adequately trained and meets competency requirements and levels
Provides effective leadership and manages appropriate staff levels. Develops goals and priorities, and assigns tasks and projects. Develops staff skills and training plans. Counsels, trains and coaches assigned staff. Implements corrective actions and conducts performance evaluations. Provides leadership, direction and guidance. Represents the department on various committees; conducts regular unit staff meetings
Responsible for designing, developing, and monitoring performance improvement processes such as but not limited to quality, accuracy, productivity and timeliness. Manages implementation of standards and systems to enhance quality, consistency, efficiency, and timeliness of responsibilities for the enterprise. Monitors to ensure that integrity and accuracy of registration data is maintained by the staff supervised. Works collaboratively with other departments to ensure the processes and systems for patient financial clearance processes are standardized and optimized for efficient and effective flow of patients within the department and the organization
Keeps up-to-date on all regulatory and accrediting agency requirements, including Federal and State regulations and Joint Commission standards as they relate to Registration. Ensures compliance with policies and directives issued by Medicare, Medicaid, Third Party Payers, and others as needed; i.e. Medicare Secondary Payer, authorization for inpatient and outpatient services, and verification of eligibility or other primary coverage. Assures compliance with the medical staff bylaws, rules and regulations, and hospital and departmental policies and procedures
Identify revenue cycle issues and provide leadership for root cause analysis and problem resolution
Design and implement appropriate plans to meet goals
Supports the Director in developing strategies for operational improvement, assists with budget development, and departmental reporting
Performs other related and incidental duties as needed or assigned
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university with a major in accounting, finance, business administration, health care administration, or a related field (or equivalent combination of education/experience)
Five (5) years of progressively responsible experience in revenue cycle management (i.e., Pre-Registration, Authorization, Financial Counseling and Billing) in a health care setting
Knowledge of relevant Hospital Policies, Practices and HIPAA regulations
Knowledge of Registration (Epic) and billing systems (Epic) and databases or other revenue cycle technologies
Knowledge of Governmental and non-government requirements applicable to patient financial clearance processes
Knowledge of Current knowledge of third party payer rules and regulations
Knowledge of ICD-9 and CPT coding
Knowledge of medical terminology
Ability to communicate well with patients
Problem solving abilities, prioritizing, multi-task, meet deadlines and adapt to changing priorities
Strong organization and decision-making abilities
Ability to work independently with strong follow-up skills to ensure effective and efficient completion of tasks
Effective interpersonal skills and professional conduct and ability to maintain effective working relationships with all patients, employees, faculty and upper management
Ability to facilitate groups
Demonstrated written and verbal communication skills
Ability to receive and disseminate information effectively and appropriately, reviewing and acknowledging unit communication
Ability to apply Lean/project management protocols for efficient workflows
Ability to manage multiple projects in a timely and efficient manner
Proficient in Microsoft Excel, Word, Project or other spreadsheet and/or word processing software
Ability to collect, organize and analyze data to implement appropriate countermeasures
Ability to provide leadership in problem identification and issue resolution
Ability to analyze revenue write-off data and identify trends and opportunities and the ability to present such data to a variety of audiences
Company
Stanford Health Care
Stanford Health Care is a healthcare center that treats cancer, heart disease, brain disorders, and primary care issues.
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