Also called: Director of Patient Financial Services
Oversees how a hospital gets paid: billing, coding, insurance claims, and collections.
Reviews why insurers denied $3 million in claims last month, fixes broken processes between registration and billing, and leads a team of coders and billers. Without this job, hospitals go broke.
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Approximate: anchored on Bureau of Labor Statistics data for a broader job group.
Bachelor's degree (4-year), about 10 years after high school. Bachelor's in business or health administration plus years of billing/finance experience.
Ways in: 4-year college, On-the-job training, Certification. Training cost: $15k – $60k.
Majors to look at: Health Administration, Finance, Accounting.
Growing about average. Steady.
Medium risk for 10 years. Billing and denial work is automating fast, shrinking the teams this role leads; managing the change and payer fights stays human.
Classes: Business, Accounting, Statistics.
Official data: O*NET occupation 11-3031.
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