Revenue Cycle Optimization Manager

Annual salary range: $80,012.61 – $

Benton County’s Health Department is hiring a Revenue Cycle Optimization Manager
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The Revenue Cycle Optimization Manager provides leadership, oversight, and strategic direction for revenue cycle operations across Health Services. The position is responsible for ensuring accurate, timely, compliant, and efficient processes throughout the revenue cycle, including patient registration and eligibility, provider and payer enrollment support, charge capture, coding, claim submission, payment posting, denial and appeal management, accounts receivable, patient billing and collections, reimbursement monitoring, and revenue cycle reporting.

The Revenue Cycle Optimization Manager provides direct leadership and supervision to assigned revenue cycle staff and establishes performance expectations, operational standards, internal controls, and improvement priorities that strengthen financial performance and support sustainable service delivery. The position monitors revenue cycle performance identifies trends and root causes affecting reimbursement and leads cross-functional improvement efforts with clinical operations, patient access, providers, Finance, Compliance, Health Information Management, Information Technology, and other Health Services teams.

The position serves as the organizational subject matter expert for revenue cycle business systems and reimbursement workflows, including the electronic health record and applicable payer systems. The Revenue Cycle Optimization Manager ensures systems, workflows, fee schedules, payer configurations, and billing processes are appropriately maintained and aligned with payer requirements, regulatory standards, contractual obligations, and organizational policies.

The Revenue Cycle Optimization Manager provides specialized leadership for the unique reimbursement and billing requirements of Federally Qualified Health Centers, CFAA revenue, and other Health Services programs. This includes oversight of applicable Medicare and Medicaid FQHC reimbursement methodologies, alternative payment arrangements, supplemental payment processes, fee schedules, and operational implementation of the Health Center Program Sliding Fee Discount Program and billing and collections requirements.

The position exercises a high degree of independent judgment and serves as a key advisor to Health Services leadership regarding revenue cycle performance, reimbursement strategy, revenue risk, operational improvement, payer trends, and opportunities to maximize appropriate reimbursement for services delivered.

First review of applications will be September 30, 2026.

Applications submitted after this date may or may not be considered. Please note that this recruitment may close at any time after the first review date.

The following minimum qualifications are required for this position:

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university in Healthcare Administration, Business Administration, Health Information Management, Health Informatics, Finance, Accounting, Public Administration, or a closely related field required.
• Five (5) years of professional experience in healthcare revenue cycle, healthcare finance, reimbursement, billing operations, healthcare business systems, or a closely related area, including at least three (3) years of management or supervisory experience.
  • Please note:
    
    Supervisory experience includes the authority to hire, terminate, assign, reward and discipline other employees.
• An equivalent combination of education, training, and experience that demonstrates the required knowledge, skills, and abilities may be considered.

• Criminal Records Check

• Healthcare revenue cycle operations, including registration, eligibility, charge capture, coding, billing, claims processing, payment posting, denials, appeals, accounts receivable, and collections.
• Medicare, Medicaid, commercial payer, and managed care reimbursement requirements.
• Healthcare coding and billing principles, including ICD-10, CPT, HCPCS, modifiers, claim forms, and payer-specific billing requirements.
• Electronic Health Records and healthcare revenue cycle information systems.
• Revenue cycle performance indicators and methods for monitoring and improving financial performance.
• Payer enrollment, credentialing interfaces, reimbursement configuration, fee schedules, and payer contract implementation.
• Healthcare regulatory and…