Assistant VP, Revenue Cycle Systems

CORE JOB SUMMARY

The Assistant Vice President, Revenue Cycle Systems acts as a key member of the University of Miami Information Technology executive leadership team. The position leads complex healthcare revenue cycle systems, including but not limited to Epic, across multiple service lines with the goal of continuously improving performance and the overall consumer experience. The position is responsible for driving the strategy and execution of the University’s IT revenue cycle initiatives and delivering best in class solutions that enhance efficiency, compliance, and financial performance.

Core Job Functions

• Builds strong relationships with stakeholders and clients to ensure satisfaction with product/technology service and gains knowledge of opportunities for improvement, ensuring the highest ROI for the organization.

• Leads and manages full-cycle IT revenue cycle transformation and implementation projects, including assessment, design, build, testing, training, and go-live support.

• Applies data-driven analytic frameworks, domain expertise, and external thought leadership to guide executive leadership on prioritization and development of strategic plans, objectives, quality improvement programs, and state-of-the-art advances in revenue cycle workflows and processes.

• Manages substantial revenue cycle improvement projects and ensures the quality, effectiveness, compliance, and financial soundness of new programs and initiatives.

• Consults with clients to identify revenue cycle optimization opportunities, leveraging operational and clinical expertise to assess and advise on improving performance across the full revenue cycle, including scheduling, coding, billing, denial management, and collections.

• Contributes directly to the strategy, development, and quality of IT Service Management and service delivery capability, with exposure to all facets of the IT organization—technologies, projects, strategies, and operations.

• Acts as an active stakeholder and driver in underlying operations process and infrastructure, directing continuous improvements across supporting teams to meet existing customer SLAs, OLAs, and compliance requirements.

• Provides leadership, vision, and direction to the IT revenue cycle systems team, and works with the Chief Information and Digital Officer and other IT leaders to develop execution tactics and IT logistics in the context of the business strategy and initiatives. Also collaborates with the Chief Information Security Officer to ensure business application products are effectively secured and risks are mitigated.

• Develops productive relationships with business leaders and product managers across the organization to influence how business applications can enable new sources of value.

• Safeguards processes (including those of external service providers) to ensure they are conducted in a compliant manner.

• Leads a team, developing their skills and capabilities to meet the needs of the organization, and builds on existing recruiting capabilities to address new needs and skills gaps.

• Manages relationships with major vendors and service providers to ensure they cost-effectively meet the needs of the organization.

• Facilitates the system governance process to gain consensus on a prioritized set of measurable business outcomes that applications and products must support.

• Oversees benefits realization and the development of processes and tools, in conjunction with infrastructure and operations, to automate the handoff from project to operations and ensure business outcomes are achieved.

• Ensures internal control oversight and compliance with laws and regulations, safeguarding of assets, compliance with University policies and procedures, reliability of internal and external reporting, and efficiency and effectiveness of operations. Creates an effective control environment, conducts risk assessment, implements and monitors controls.

Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in relevant field required.

• Experience: Minimum 10 years of relevant experience required. Proven leadership in implementing and managing revenue cycle systems including Epic. Strong understanding of healthcare billing, coding, and payer contracting. Experience with compliance, audit processes, and regulatory standards.

• Certification and Licensing: Certified in Epic revenue cycle modules preferred.

The University of Miami offers competitive salaries and a comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, tuition remission and more. UHealth-University of Miami Health System, South Florida's only university-based health system, provides leading-edge patient care powered by the ground breaking research and medical education at the Miller School of Medicine. As an academic medical center, we are proud to serve South Florida, Latin America and the Caribbean. Our physicians represent more than 100 specialties and sub-specialties, and have more than one million patient encounters each year. Our tradition of excellence has earned worldwide recognition for outstanding teaching, research and patient care. We're the challenge you've been looking for.

The University of Miami is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Applicants and employees are protected from discrimination based on certain categories protected by Federal law. Job Status: Full time Employee Type: Staff