The Role
Manages laboratory or department programs spanning revenue cycle operations, research development, staffing, budgeting, contracts, compliance, coding, billing, and marketing. Coordinates research and support staff, establishes procedures, monitors schedules and project budgets, supports charge capture and denials management, and collaborates with physicians, leadership, compliance, and other departments to improve revenue performance and achieve institutional goals.
Summary Generated by Built In
Responsible for attaining laboratory or department research, marketing, fiscal and staffing goals to conform to institutional goals.
Responsibilities
- Oversees the department's revenue cycle activities by proactively identifying, diagnosing, troubleshooting and resolving issues or barriers to revenue maximization.
- Identifies research and development areas that should be investigated.
- Establishes and communicates operating procedures, practices and guidelines.
- Collaborates with physicians and management teams on revenue cycle, coding, and coding education to ensure accurate, complete and timely coding and billing activity.
- Establishes, monitors and controls schedules and project budgets.
- Plans, organizes and manages work of research and support staff.
- Assists department leadership with revenue operational functions to ensure revenue flow is aligned with the strategic goals of the department.
- Responsible for negotiation or research contracts.
- Provides financial/business support in the areas of charge capture, denials management, billing and compliance within the department and clinical sites.
- Plans and manages business development and marketing activities for laboratory or department.
- Serves as an internal liaison with other departments that have revenue, coding concerns/questions and work closely with Compliance to ensure departmental compliance with institutional policies, procedures and protocols.
- Develops solutions to complex research problems.
- Performs all other duties as assigned.
- Knowledge of and experience with project/program management, including Department of Defense (DoD) or VA programs, contract management, proposals/grants, and compliance (research, regulatory, federal/DoD).
- Demonstrated ability to work with IRB and other regulatory and agency/department management.
- Knowledge of business and management principles involved in strategic planning, resource allocation, human resources modeling, leadership technique, production methods, and coordination of people and resources.
- Ability to coordinate the diverse components of a project by quality project planning, execution and change control to achieve required balance of time, cost, quality and results.
- Ability to lead and collaborate in team-oriented and goal focused environment.
- Strong verbal, written and interpersonal communication skills.
Education
Bachelor's Degree degree; experience may be substituted in lieu of degree.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree, though experience may substitute
- Experience with project or program management
- Experience with Department of Defense or VA programs
- Contract management experience
- Experience with proposals or grants
- Research, regulatory, and federal or DoD compliance experience
- Ability to work with IRB and regulatory or agency management
- Knowledge of strategic planning, resource allocation, human resources modeling, leadership, production methods, and coordinating people and resources
- Ability to coordinate project planning, execution, change control, time, cost, quality, and results
- Ability to lead and collaborate in a team-oriented environment
- Strong verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills
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The Company
What We Do
UT Health San Antonio™, one of the country’s leading health sciences universities, is the leader in south/central Texas funding for the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The university’s schools of medicine, nursing, dentistry, health professions and graduate biomedical sciences have produced more than 33,000 alumni. The $806.6 million operating budget supports four campuses in San Antonio and Laredo, and is the primary driver of its community’s $37 billion biomedical and health care industry. For more information on the many ways “We make lives better®,” visit uthealthsa.org.
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