Employment Type:

Full time

Shift:

Day Shift

Description:

Purpose

100% Work Onsite at St. Agnes Hospital, Fresno, California

Accountable for leading, guiding & directing the functional responsibilities within an area of assignment. Enable ministry-level or enterprise-wide functional strategy to address internal or external business & regulatory issues. Provide functional expertise & ensure fulfillment of performance & service standards. Responsible for consistent operating performance & achieving financial goals. Identifies, defines & solves complex problems that impact the management & direction of the business. Collaborates with Services Areas, Regions & Health Ministries to ensure consistency & integration of strategy & operations while maintaining awareness of new industry developments & standards. Provides decision support, operations & / or optimization leadership focus.

Note: “patients” refers to patients, clients, residents, participants, customers, members

Essential Functions 

Our Trinity Health Culture: Knows, understands, incorporates & demonstrates our Trinity Health Mission, Values, Vision, Actions & Promise in behaviors, practices & decisions.
Leadership:
Providing advice, guidance & leadership to RHM & Region leaders in developing strategies & in the achievement of performance goals.
Enable Collaboration across & within service area, RHM & Regions to ensure consistency & integration of strategy & operations
Direction & Growth:
Providing advice, guidance & leadership to service area, functional area, RHM & Regions.
Leading standardization / systemness & optimization of policy, process, methodology, establishing a national community of practice.
Oversee Vendor / Contract Labor Management including centralizing strategy & optimizing spend.
Strategic Support & Accountability:
Collaborates in system-wide strategy development & deployment of functional area priorities & initiatives.
Responsible for supporting regional efforts to comply with functional area priorities.
Accountable for the selection, evaluation & overall success of the functional leadership teams.
Organization-wide focal point for establishing functional strategies & governance over financials & staffing.
Accountable for communication between service area functional area, RHM & Region leaders.
Operational Delivery
Responsible for measuring & reporting KPIs / metrics &value delivery.
Providing advice, guidance & leadership for the colleague life cycle.
Maintains a Working Knowledge of applicable federal, state & local laws / regulations, Trinity Health Integrity & Compliance Program & Code of Conduct, as well as other policies, procedures & guidelines in order to ensure adherence in a manner that reflects honest, ethical & professional behavior & safe work practices.

Functional Role (not inclusive of titles or advancement career progression

Manager, Patient Access:

Manages all onsite Patient Access operations, maximizing patient throughput while gathering appropriate critical data to secure reimbursement for services rendered. 

Leads the redesign of processes & systems to improve overall patient experience, data integrity, & staff productivity / quality to achieve departmental goals & process outcomes.

Provides scheduling, leadership, guidance & direction to staff in multiple locations; manages all aspects & employee life cycle of Patient Access staff processes & systems.

Coordinates activities that may focus on pre-service / onsite patient registration/intake, medical necessity screening, point-of-service collections, dissemination of patient information, securing insurance & demographic information & financial clearance, financial counseling activities, patient bed placement, & support coverage of other departmental divisions.

Serves as primary liaison regarding registration and/or any Patient Access functions & related database issues; issues related to medical record & account number assignment, data integrity, medical necessity / appropriateness of service related to bed designation; & issues related to patient signatures on consents & other intake forms.

Collaborates with members of other departments to ensure best practice & issue resolutions are implemented.

Manager, Pre-service:

Develops, monitors & maintains Access Operations policies & procedures to assure compliance & promotion of operational & federal requirements.  Communicates to colleagues any new additions, changes.