Manager - Front/Middle Revenue Cycle Continuous Improvement

Mon, 12/01/2025 - 04:18

Huron helps its clients drive growth, enhance performance and sustain leadership in the markets they serve. We help healthcare organizations build innovation capabilities and accelerate key growth initiatives, enabling organizations to own the future, instead of being disrupted by it. Together, we empower clients to create sustainable growth, optimize internal processes and deliver better consumer outcomes.

Health systems, hospitals and medical clinics are under immense pressure to improve clinical outcomes and reduce the cost of providing patient care. Investing in new partnerships, clinical services and technology is not enough to create meaningful and substantive change. To succeed long-term, healthcare organizations must empower leaders, clinicians, employees, affiliates and communities to build cultures that foster innovation to achieve the best outcomes for patients.

Joining the Huron team means you’ll help our clients evolve and adapt to the rapidly changing healthcare environment and optimize existing business operations, improve clinical outcomes, create a more consumer-centric healthcare experience, and drive physician, patient and employee engagement across the enterprise.

Join our team as the expert you are now and create your future.

The CI&I Manager will oversee junior staff responsible for conducting A/R and metric research, identifying trends, monitoring progress towards metric goals, and collaborating with operational leaders to drive shared accountability toward A/R improvement. The CI&I Manager is expected to provide strategic thought leadership to cross functional project teams, stakeholders, and senior leaders.

POSITION SUMMARY

Huron Managed Services is currently seeking a Manager to join Adventist Huron's Continuous Improvement and Insights (CI&I) team. The CI&I Manager will provide strategic data and reporting to financial clearance, registration, and hospital revenue cycle operations leaders for our clients. The CI&I Manager will focus on providing critical insights to address root cause issues impacting A/R and metric performance, to drive financial and operational improvement.

The CI&I Manager will oversee junior staff responsible for conducting A/R and metric research, identifying trends, monitoring progress towards metric goals, and collaborating with operational leaders to drive shared accountability toward A/R improvement. The CI&I Manager is expected to provide strategic thought leadership to cross functional project teams, stakeholders, and senior leaders.

KEY JOB DUTIES

• Analyze, interprets, and summarizes pertinent revenue cycle data components, and monitors performance against Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to identify process improvement opportunities
• Conducts risk assessments to achieving KPI targets, reports identified risks to management, and provides recommendations for mitigation of risk
• Extrapolates market and payer trends and coordinates with operational leaders, managed care, vendor management, and other relevant stakeholders to support development of action plans to attain top decile metric performance
• Develops and manages A/R and performance improvement issues logs, quantifying impact of improvement initiatives, as well as prioritization of solutions within a functional area
• Supports execution of metric improvement solutions by providing operational leaders with necessary data and insights to take targeted actions
• Facilitates cross-market collaboration and issue resolution, leveraging system-wide exposure to derive and support delivery of optimal solutions
• Prepares status reports and action-oriented summaries for executive leaders across the system
• Attends and co-lead metric and project calls with Senior Management and support staff
• Critically evaluates overall A/R management strategy with the objective of continually enhancing operational improvement and embedding consistent processes to sustain best known practice solutions
• Utilizes enhanced analytical tools for high volume, complex analyses, to provide critical insights and process updates based on analysis and collaboration with operational leaders

QUALIFICATIONS

Core Qualifications

• Current permanent U.S. work authorization required
• Bachelor's degree required
• Limited travel required
• Proficient in Microsoft Office (Word, PowerPoint, Excel)
• Direct supervisory experience
• 6-8 years of healthcare operations leadership and/or consulting experience

Preferred Experience

• Relevant hospital revenue cycle experience directing a department and/or team-based projects with a focus on process re-engineering/performance improvement initiatives and change management, OR
• Project leadership and workplan management experience within a consulting firm setting with a focus on hospital or physician revenue cycle, denials management, or patient access services

Candidate Qualities

• Possesses strong operational understanding of revenue cycle processes
• Strong understanding of revenue cycle metrics and the levers that drive them in the patient access, patient financial services, and HIM/coding environment
• Ability to design and apply conceptual models to business problems to understand issues and support with reporting and analytics
• Effective and efficient organization and planning skills with the proven ability to manage complex multi-workstream performance improvement projects, while delegating and overseeing the work of junior team members
• Proven analytical and critical thinking skills required to synthesize complex data sets and interpret qualitative and quantitative data and trends to implement recommendations resulting in measurable performance improvement and successful organizational change
• Impactful and professional written and verbal communication set clear project team direction, develop key deliverables, escalate risks, and influence key stakeholders inclusive of client and internal senior leadership
• Ability to collaborate with team members and client counterparts to understand business challenges, adapt implementation methodologies and approaches to ensure results align with client’s business objectives
• Team leadership experience including building talent, training, supervising, coaching/mentoring, and performance management

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Job Function

• Continuous Improvement & Insights

Employment Type

• Full time

Location

• The applicant must be eligible to work in the United States and does not require sponsorship

Physical Demands

• Desktop use may require extensive sitting periods

Seniority Level

• Manager

The estimated salary range for this job is $115,000 - $145,000. The range represents a good faith estimate of the range that Huron reasonably expects to pay for this job at the time of the job posting. The actual salary paid to an individual will vary based on multiple factors, including but not limited to specific skills or certifications, years of experience, market changes and required travel. This job is also eligible to participate in Huron’s annual incentive compensation program, which reflects Huron’s pay for performance philosophy and Huron’s benefit plans which include medical, dental and vision coverage and other wellness programs. The salary range information provided is in accordance with applicable state and local laws regarding salary transparency that are currently in effect and may be implemented in the future.

Position Level

Manager

Country

United States of America