Alaska Rural Healthcare Finance and Revenue Cycle Leadership Opportunities at Rural Staffing Services in Alaska, Alaska, United States

Job description

• Help Us Build a Better Way for Rural Healthcare
• This application may connect you with the specific opportunity you were viewing, as well as other current or upcoming rural healthcare positions that align with your experience and goals.
• By joining the Rural Staffing Services Talent Network, you are helping us build a more thoughtful and connected approach to rural recruitment, one that allows experienced professionals and Alaska healthcare organizations to find one another more quickly when the right need arises.
• Every application helps strengthen a growing network of people who are willing to bring their experience, leadership, resourcefulness, and heart to rural, remote, and frontier communities.
• Explore Rural Healthcare Opportunities at RSSJobs.org
• This application may connect you with the specific opportunity you were viewing, as well as other current or upcoming rural healthcare positions throughout Alaska that align with your experience and goals.
• Visit www.RSSJobs.org to explore additional rural healthcare opportunities and communities.
• Finance and Revenue Cycle Leadership Opportunities Across Alaska
• Rural Staffing Services partners with rural hospitals, clinics, Tribal health organizations, regional health systems, community health centers, long-term care providers, and community healthcare organizations throughout Alaska to identify experienced finance and revenue cycle leaders who understand the unique realities of rural, remote, and frontier healthcare.
• We are currently connecting with professionals who may be interested in active and upcoming finance, accounting, reimbursement, revenue cycle, billing, coding, and patient financial services leadership opportunities across Alaska.
• Critical Access Hospitals
• Rural and community hospitals
• Rural Health Clinics
• Federally Qualified Health Centers
• Tribal health organizations
• Regional health corporations
• Village-based healthcare programs
• Long-term care and senior care organizations
• Integrated rural healthcare systems
• Multi-site and regional healthcare networks
• Strong financial and revenue cycle operations help protect healthcare access for entire communities and regions.
• These leaders ensure organizations can accurately capture revenue, manage resources responsibly, support employees, maintain compliance, and remain financially strong enough to continue caring for the people who depend on them.
• In Alaska, healthcare organizations may provide services across vast geographic areas, including communities accessible only by plane, boat, snowmachine, or seasonal transportation.
• Finance and revenue cycle leaders may need to understand how travel, workforce housing, temporary staffing, limited local services, supply costs, telehealth, multi-site operations, and care delivered across remote communities affect the organization's financial performance.
• Within rural healthcare organizations, these leaders often work across departments and may have broader responsibilities than they would in a larger system.
• The strongest leaders understand how registration, eligibility, coding, charge capture, billing, reimbursement, patient accounts, accounting, clinical documentation, and operational decisions connect to one another.
• They are collaborative, detail-oriented, approachable, and able to turn complex financial information into practical guidance for employees, department leaders, executives, governing boards, and Tribal leadership.
• Alaska's healthcare organizations serve communities spread across mountains, forests, tundra, rivers, islands, and thousands of miles of coastline.
• Some communities are connected by highways. Others may be reached only by plane, boat, snowmachine, or seasonal transportation.
• These organizations often operate with lean teams, limited resources, complex reimbursement structures, and an enormous responsibility to the communities they serve.
• A delay in reimbursement, missed charge, coding error, registration issue, or breakdown in claims processing can have a meaningful effect on an organization's ability to maintain services.
• Strong finance and revenue cycle leadership helps protect emergency care, outpatient services, long-term care, behavioral health, village-based programs, and other essential services that patients might otherwise have to travel hundreds of miles to receive.
• Leading finance or revenue cycle operations in Alaska provides the opportunity to see the direct impact of your work.
• Improving a workflow, supporting a team, reducing denials, strengthening documentation, or improving reimbursement can help preserve services, protect jobs, support employees, and keep care available closer to home.
• You may help stabilize a department, improve cash flow, strengthen coding accuracy, implement a new system, mentor local employees, or build a more connected process across multiple facilities and communities.
• The work requires adaptability, persistence, cultural humility, attention to detail, and a genuine commitment to the organization's mission.

Responsibilities

• Responsibilities will vary by organization, community, and position and may include:
• Leading accounting, finance, revenue cycle, billing, coding, reimbursement, or patient financial services functions
• Supporting accurate and timely financial reporting
• Managing month-end and year-end close processes
• Developing budgets, forecasts, financial models, and performance reports
• Strengthening billing, collections, cash flow, reimbursement, and denial-management performance
• Monitoring key revenue cycle metrics and identifying opportunities for improvement
• Supporting accurate patient registration, eligibility verification, coding, charge capture, claims submission, and payment posting
• Overseeing patient accounts, financial counseling, collection processes, and assistance programs
• Ensuring compliance with payer, regulatory, accounting, grant, and documentation requirements
• Preparing for financial, coding, billing, reimbursement, or compliance audits
• Developing policies, procedures, workflows, reporting standards, and internal controls
• Training, mentoring, and supporting finance and revenue cycle employees
• Collaborating with clinical, operational, information technology, health information management, compliance, and executive leaders
• Helping employees understand how documentation and departmental workflows affect reimbursement and organizational sustainability
• Supporting system implementations, process improvements, departmental restructuring, or centralized service models
• Managing financial or revenue cycle functions across multiple facilities, clinics, or communities
• Supporting reimbursement involving Medicare, Medicaid, commercial insurance, Indian Health Service, Tribal health programs, grants, and patient-pay accounts
• Evaluating the financial impact of medical travel, workforce shortages, temporary staffing, housing, supply costs, and regional operations
• Helping ensure essential healthcare services remain financially sustainable and available closer to home

Requirements

• Progressive experience in healthcare finance, accounting, revenue cycle, billing, coding, reimbursement, or patient financial services
• Previous leadership experience as a director, manager, controller, supervisor, or comparable leader
• Knowledge of healthcare reimbursement, payer requirements, billing practices, accounting standards, and financial operations
• Experience with Medicare, Medicaid, commercial insurance, government programs, and patient-pay accounts
• An understanding of hospital, clinic, long-term care, or healthcare-system workflows
• Experience analyzing financial or revenue cycle performance and communicating findings clearly to leadership
• Experience improving collections, denials, coding accuracy, charge capture, reimbursement, cash flow, or accounts receivable performance
• Strong organizational, analytical, problem-solving, communication, and team-development skills
• The ability to collaborate across clinical, operational, financial, technical, Tribal, and executive teams
• Experience with Critical Access Hospitals, Rural Health Clinics, FQHCs, Tribal health organizations, regional health corporations, long-term care providers, or community healthcare organizations
• Experience supporting multi-site organizations or services spread across significant geographic distances may be valuable
• Experience with Tribal health reimbursement, Indian Health Service programs, federal grants, or public-sector finance may be preferred for some opportunities
• Relevant education or professional credentials based on the position
• A collaborative, transparent, practical, and relationship-focused leadership style
• Some opportunities may prefer credentials such as CPA, CHFP, CRCR, CPC, CCS, RHIA, RHIT, or another finance, coding, revenue cycle, reimbursement, or health information certification.
• Specific education, certification, travel, reporting, and experience requirements will depend on the organization and role.

Skills

Required

• Healthcare finance
• Accounting
• Revenue cycle management
• Billing
• Coding
• Reimbursement
• Patient financial services
• Financial reporting
• Budgeting
• Forecasting
• Financial modeling
• Denial management

Preferred

• CPA
• CHFP
• CRCR
• CPC
• CCS
• RHIA
• RHIT
• Indian Health Service programs