JOB SUMMARY:

Why UT Southwestern? With over 75 years of excellence in Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas, UT Southwestern Medical Center is committed to excellence, innovation, teamwork, and compassion. We invest in you with opportunities for career growth and development that align with your future goals and help to provide security for you and your family. Our highly competitive benefits package offers healthcare, PTO and paid holidays, merit increases and so much more that are all available on the day you start work.

VETERANS:

We are honored to be a veteran friendly work environment that is home to hundreds of veterans. We value your integrity, dedication, and the commitment you have made to our country. We are proud to support your next mission. Ranked by Forbes as one of the Top 10 National Employers, we invite you to be a part of the UT Southwestern Medical Center team where you will discover teamwork, professionalism, and consistent opportunities for growth. Shift: 8-hour days The preferred applicant must live in Texas, DFW area is preferred.

JOB SUMMARY:

The Revenue Cycle Department is seeking a candidate who is an expert in government provider enrollment (PE) and experienced with PE in an academic setting preferred. The successful candidate in this position duties and responsibilities will include but not be limited to the following:

• Familiar with PECOS, NPPES, and EPIC.
• Manage one (1) direct report with indirect report of 10 staff, with all staff directly reporting to a supervisor.
• Direct responsibility for governmental provider enrollment for all providers in our large academic practice.
• Meeting facilitation with hospital partners and other entities, impacted by our governmental provider enrollment.
• Works in concert with facility credentialing and medical staff credentialing teams.
• Monitors, in conjunction with supervisor, staff production and quality.
• Direct communications with department leaders regarding statuses of their providers' enrollments.
• Assure quality information maintained in provider enrollment platform, to include service addresses, taxonomies, licenses, and effective/term dates.

EXPERIENCE | EDUCATION:

• High school diploma or equivalent (Bachelor's degree preferred)
• And 7 years professional revenue cycle working experience, including: 4 years medicine, ancillary, or surgical coding; 1 year clinical and or technical denials management/prevention;
• And 3 years progressive management in health care administration, physician group practice, and/or claims processing is required.
• Ability to demonstrate work experience producing positive results in a 100% metric driven work environment.
• An advanced degree (Bachelor's or Master's) may be considered in lieu of experience. Professional Coding Certification (e.g., CPB, CPC, CCS-P) preferred.

JOB DUTIES:

• Accountable and responsible for the clinical denial prevention and management program for either the centralized Medicine and Ancillary or Surgical revenue cycles in a collections metric driven environment. Monitor appeal effectiveness and denial prevention efforts by reviewing Epic work queues and reports, MS Excel remit code level reports, and the Epic staff note payment percentage report. Monitors Epic follow-up work queue automation rules to ensure they are functioning correctly and or if adjustments or new rules need to be written. Conducts analysis of denials and denial trends by type and payor. Monitors payor reimbursement policies to prevent future claim denials and or internal denial routing for correct and prompt resolution.
• Coordinates, with supervisor, the appeals process for all balances deemed appropriate. Facilitates payor denials related communication with revenue cycle operations staff, clinical operations staff, and Revenue Cycle Operations management.
• Works with staff to identify the root cause of denials and to implement effective strategies and process improvements, to reduce costly delays in payment. Assures prompt action is taken on denials by coordinating with supervisor/staff to create written and/or verbal clinical appeals with payers.
• Formulates letters of appeal. Ensuring they include relevant and effective clinical documentation from the medical record; supported by current industry clinical guidelines, evidence-based medicine, local and national medical management standards, and clinical protocols. • Actively participates in the University Edit Administration Committee to ensure accountability for denials reduction performance and ensures compliance with all governmental regulations and non-governmental guidelines.
• Maintains and applies an excellent understanding of physician reimbursement policy and coding methodologies including, but not limited to AMA, CMS, and specialty societies to ensure physician practice revenue integrity and compliant documentation and coding.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS & ABLITIES:

• Work requires working knowledge of insurance billing and various types of health insurance plans.
• Work requires working knowledge of medical terminology and coding.
• Work requires excellent customer service relationships to ensure patient satisfaction.
• Work requires demonstrated ability to handle escalated or complex customer inquiries.
• Work requires demonstrated ability to understand written medical and billing documentation.
• Work requires demonstrated ability to communicate effectively with various levels of constituents, patients and/or family, clinical staff, third party payers, management and other professionals outside the healthcare system.
• Working Conditions Work requires working knowledge of insurance billing and various types of health insurance plans.

SECURITY:

This position is security-sensitive and subject to Texas Education Code 51.215, which authorizes UT Southwestern to obtain criminal history record information.

UT Southwestern Medical Center is committed to an educational and working environment that provides equal opportunity to all members of the University community. As an equal opportunity employer, UT Southwestern prohibits unlawful discrimination, including discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, disability, genetic information, citizenship status, or veteran status.