Assistant Vice President of Revenue Cycle Operations - Professional Billing

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The Vanderbilt Health Executive Search Team is conducting a national search for an Assistant Vice President of Revenue Cycle Operations - Professional Billing. The Assistant Vice President of Revenue Cycle Operations - Professional Billing oversees the full professional revenue cycle to ensure accurate, efficient, and compliant billing, coding, and collections.

First Shift - Remote

• Lead and optimize the end-to-end professional revenue cycle, including patient access, charge capture, coding, billing, and collections.
• Develop and implement strategies that improve cash flow, reduce denials, and ensure timely, accurate reimbursement.
• Monitor and manage KPIs such as AR days, clean claim rate, denial rate, and cost-to-collect to achieve organizational performance goals.
• Ensure compliance with regulatory requirements, payer rules, billing guidelines, and clinical documentation standards.
• Drive process improvement and standardization across departments using data analytics, automation, and best practices.
• Collaborate with physician, clinical, finance, and IT stakeholders to resolve revenue cycle issues and support strategic initiatives.
• Oversee revenue integrity, audits, and risk mitigation activities to ensure accurate coding, documentation, and charge capture.
• Lead, mentor, and develop high-performing teams to foster operational excellence and a strong patient financial experience.
• Direct and oversee provider enrollment functions, ensuring timely payer enrollment, revalidation, and maintenance of provider participation status.

• Bachelor's Degree and 7 years of experience.

• Strong EPIC background on the professional billing side strongly preferred.
• Operations experience is strongly preferred.
• Provider enrollment experience preferred.
• Leadership experience preferred.
• Epic certifications are strongly preferred.
• Coding certifications are strongly preferred.
• Academic Medical Center experience strongly preferred.

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At our growing health system, we support each other and encourage excellence among all who are part of our workforce. High-achieving employees stay at Vanderbilt Health for professional growth, appreciation of benefits, and a sense of community and purpose.

Vanderbilt Health is committed to fostering an environment where everyone has the chance to thrive and is committed to the principles of equal opportunity. EOE/Vets/Disabled.