About this role
Lead the evaluation and improvement of AI tools that enhance self-pay revenue recovery and patient financial engagement, while directing patient collections and patient financial services operations. Your work will shape AI-generated patient communications, payment plan recommendations, and collections strategies to improve patient payment experiences and maximise self-pay revenue.
Key Responsibilities- Lead patient collections and self-pay operations, including early-out collections, bad debt management, and patient payment plan administration.
- Evaluate AI-generated patient financial communication drafts, payment plan recommendations, and self-pay resolution strategies for accuracy and regulatory compliance.
- Develop and implement self-pay collection strategies across the revenue cycle, including pre-service, point-of-service, and post-service collections.
- Manage patient payment plan enrollment, monitoring, and compliance processes.
- Coordinate with financial counselling, billing, and bad debt recovery teams to optimise self-pay revenue capture.
- Monitor self-pay KPIs, including self-pay collection rates, payment plan conversion rates, bad debt write-off rates, and patient satisfaction scores.
- Ensure compliance with FDCPA, HIPAA, applicable state collections laws, and internal patient financial assistance policies.
- Oversee relationships with collection agencies and early-out vendors as applicable.
- Annotate AI outputs and provide structured feedback to support AI training datasets.
- Minimum 5 years of experience in patient collections, self-pay revenue cycle, or patient financial services, with at least 2 years in a leadership role.
- Deep knowledge of self-pay collection workflows, FDCPA compliance, and patient financial engagement best practices.
- Experience managing early-out and bad debt collection programs, including vendor oversight.
- Familiarity with propensity-to-pay tools and patient payment technology platforms.
- Proficiency with EHR systems and patient collections or billing platforms.
- Exceptional written and verbal English communication skills.
- High attention to detail, with the ability to evaluate collections strategies and identify issues in AI-generated patient communication content.
- CRCR, CHAM, or similar revenue cycle certification.
- Experience with digital patient payment platforms and text or email based collections outreach.
- Background in hospital, health system, or physician group patient financial services.
- Familiarity with AI tools and comfort evaluating AI-generated patient financial communication content.
- Experience implementing propensity-to-pay analytics to prioritise collection efforts.
Remote role. Employment type: hourly.
CompensationPay rate: $92 per hour.
Why This Role MattersContribute subject matter expertise to the development of next-generation AI systems in healthcare, collaborate with leading AI researchers, and influence high-impact workflows across patient financial services and the revenue cycle.