Executive Director, Revenue Integrity Operations
Beth Israel Lahey Health · Boston, Massachusetts, United States · 3 wk ago
Finance$180k/yrFull-time
When you join the growing BILH team, you're not just taking a job, you’re making a difference in people’s lives.
Job Description:
Oversight of Strategic Pricing Function: - Partner with the Strategic Pricing team to align charge structure, pricing methodologies, and CDM governance across the enterprise. - Ensure pricing changes are operationally executable, properly built into Epic systems, and reconciled through charge capture workflows. - Serve as an operational counterpart to Pricing leadership, ensuring downstream charge behavior, edits, and reimbursement impacts are monitored and addressed.
Essential Duties & Responsibilities including but not limited to:
- Direct and independently manage the triage, routing, and resolution of enterprise revenue integrity issues including charging defects, workflow failures, systemic edit patterns, and payer requirement changes.
- Maintain ownership of issue escalation pathways and ensure timely closure with cross-functional coordination.
- Define, monitor, and manage service levels (SLAs) for charge posting timeliness, edit resolution, CDM turnaround, audit response, and charge reconciliation.
- Lead systemwide adoption of standardized charge capture workflows, reconciliation processes, and CDM governance practices.
- Provide operational direction to revenue integrity staff and partner teams across BILH to ensure consistent application of enterprise standards.
- Lead cross-functional workgroups to address charging issues, regulatory changes, Epic build impacts, and payer-driven charging requirements.
- Oversee day-to-day charge review, edit work queue management, prioritization, quality controls, and escalation pathways.
- Drive financial performance by ensuring accurate gross revenue capture and supporting net revenue optimization.
- Produce executive-ready reporting and analytics on charge capture, edit trends, and CDM performance.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Education: Bachelor’s degree required; Master’s degree preferred.
- Experience: Minimum of 10 years’ progressive experience in revenue integrity, charge capture, CDM governance, or revenue cycle operations, including multi-facility or systemwide leadership experience; strong leadership skills.
- Experience: Experience with Epic charge router logic, workflow optimization, and reporting tools.
Skills, Knowledge & Abilities:
- Deep expertise: in end-to-end charge capture workflows (hospital and professional billing).
- Strong command: of edit logic, payer rules, and regulatory compliance.
- Advanced understanding: of CDM structure, governance models, and pricing methodology.
- Influence: leaders across clinical, financial, and operational domains.
- Prioritize and manage: multiple complex issues in a high-volume environment.
- Independently manage: complex issues and direct cross-organizational resolution efforts.
Preferred Qualifications & Skills:
- Revenue Cycle or Analytics certifications: preferred.
Key Business Relationships (Title and Purpose):
- Hospital CFOs & Executive Directors: Ensure effective implementation of enterprise RI standards.
- Clinical Revenue Cycle Lead: Align on enterprise RI priorities and system performance.
- Revenue Cycle Business Partners: Communicate charge performance trends and triage barriers.
- Strategic Pricing & BILPN: Coordinate pricing structure and CDM changes with BILPN Contracting function
- IT / Epic Application Teams: Drive build governance, testing, and operational readiness.
- Compliance & Internal Audit: Ensure regulatory adherence and audit readiness.
Physical Requirements & Environment:
- Standard office environment; extensive computer use; ability to travel between sites as needed.
Pay Range:
$180,000.00 USD – $210,000.00 USD