What are the responsibilities and job description for the Director of Patient Accounts / Finance / Full Time / Days position at Wood County Hospital Assn?
Elevate your career at Wood County Hospital, where you're not just a number – you're a vital part of a team making a real difference.
Director of Patient Accounts / Finance / Full Time / Days The Director, Patient Accounts provides leadership and oversight of insurance billing operations to ensure accuracy, compliance, and optimal financial performance while supporting staff development, system integrity, and continuous improvement. Director, Patient Accounts is an onsite position.Essential Functions
- Direct revenue cycle operations by supervising billing staff, prioritizing workflows, monitoring productivity, and ensuring effective onboarding and ongoing training.
- Design and implement strategies and workflows that reduce denials and write‑offs, shorten days in A/R, and improve cash collections through cross‑department collaboration.
- Ensure billing accuracy by conduct compliance reviews, conducting coding integrity by collaborating with Health Information Management, monitoring payer changes, and maintaining organized reference documentation.
- Lead denial management and compliance oversight by analyzing root causes, conducting internal reviews, implementing corrective actions, and ensuring adherence to billing regulations and HIPAA requirements.
- Oversees timely completions of authorizations by precertification staff.
- Prepare, prevent, protect and respond to support our culture of safety.
- Works hours per week in accordance with offer letter or per attributes of position at transfer request. May be expected to work longer hours as necessary.
- Other duties as assigned.
Requirements
Education: High school diploma or GED
License: None
Experience:
- Four (4) years management experience
- Five (5) years revenue cycle experience
Benefit Summary:
Join our team, and you’ll have access to a cutting-edge facility with state of the art technology. You’ll also interact with some of the region's top notch healthcare professionals. You’ll find plenty of opportunities to grow and advance your career.
We’ll also reward your hard work with:
- Great health, dental and vision plans
- Competitive wages
- Prescription drug coverage
- Flexible spending accounts
- Life insurance w/AD&D
- Generous short term and long term disability plans
- Employer-matched 403(b)
- Employer sponsored cash balance pension plan
- Vacation and Holiday time
- Generous tuition reimbursement
- And a lot more!