The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Location
Type, TX | United States
Job description
ABOUT UT SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER
The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center ranks among the top academic medical centers in the world. Its faculty members – who are responsible for a broad array of groundbreaking biomedical research advances – are respected for their dedication to teaching and patient care. The medical center has four degree-granting institutions: UT Southwestern Medical School, UT Southwestern Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, UT Southwestern School of Health Professions and the UT Southwestern School of Public Health. The schools train about 3,700 medical, graduate, and allied health students, residents, and postdoctoral fellows each year.
UT Southwestern was named one of the Top 5 Best Organizations for Leadership Development (BOLD) Award winners by the National Center for Healthcare Leadership (NCHL) in 2022. The NCHL conducts a survey of health care organizations across the U.S. every other year to assess all components of organizations’ efforts to prepare and develop leaders.
An exceptional medical center that offers outstanding patient care in addition to fine teaching and innovative research. We emphasize compassionate medical treatment. UT Southwestern’s physicians are equipped to bring the latest laboratory findings to each patient. We provide inpatient care to nearly 117,000 people and oversee approximately 3 million outpatient visits annually. UT Southwestern has approximately 21,000 employees and an operating budget of approximately $4.1 billion.
Job Summary
The Director of Perioperative Business Operations and Finance works with the Associate Vice President of Perioperative Services to provide overall administrative management and coordination of administrative functions including finance, budget, personnel, space, facilities planning, policy, performance improvement, and revenue cycle.
Job Duties
Financial
Plans and develops operational budgets by analyzing operating needs, projected revenue and expenses on both a short-and long-range basis.
Assists with forecasting capital expenditure needs. Prepares and manages capital expense budgets and projects.
Monitors the variance of budgets by business units. Monitoring is completed with the development of analytics tools to examine volume, utilization and all the variables that impact the portfolio of the business.
Conducts monthly business review sessions with each business unit and reports those results to the AVP of Perioperative Services and Executive Medical Director. Business reviews would include, but not limited to, revenue, expense, labor management, position control, and productivity.
Oversees and manages charge entry and charge reconciliation process for Perioperative Services. Coordinates activities of staff responsible for charge capture, charge entry, and charge reconciliation.
Develops and manages program to ensure accuracy in clinical documentation as it relates to charge capture and billing.
Develops and prepares reports to track financial and operational performance across the entire spectrum of revenue cycle for assigned clinical areas. Identifies opportunities for revenue cycle improvement and recommends and implements solutions.
Collaborates with Revenue Cycle and Decision Support departments as needed. Reviews and recommends changes to the departments Chargemaster to maintain fees at levels that maximize reimbursement.
Works with Surgical Departments’ leaders to develop budget forecasts based on changes to surgeon clinical FTE.
In collaboration with the Director of Sterile Processing and Materials Management, UH Support Services and Supply Chain, tracks and monitors supply spend.
Leads efforts to include Requests for Proposals (RFP) as needed to improve cost efficiency in the Perioperative Space.
Planning
Participates in strategic planning to ensure that the UTSW goals are aligned and contribute toward market growth, revenue enhancement, cost containment, maximizing clinical practice.
Creates and develops business plans and models and proposes changes associated with business operations, programmatic initiatives, and/or efficiency improvements.
Implementation of short and long-term operational strategies.
Performance Improvement
Serves as the lead administrator responsible for the development, planning and implementation of perioperative initiatives surrounding process and/or performance improvement.
Manages balanced scorecard and reporting of related performance metrics on behalf of Perioperative Services.
Organizes and executes hospital-wide improvement efforts as identified through the annual planning process. Management of annual performance goals across all departments, to include development of service level performance metrics.
Supervises and coordinates the work of designated employees. Directs and coordinates various personnel functions including, but not limited to, hiring, orienting, performance appraisals, and schedule management.
Efficiency and Performance Reporting
Collaborate with AVP of Perioperative Services and Executive Medical Director to plan and prepare for governance meetings with key perioperative stakeholders.
Collaborate with Health System decision support team for efficiency and performance report builds (i.e. Power BI)
Partner with AVP Perioperative Services on management of Operating Room and Procedural area efficiency and performance reporting, including but not limited to: departmental blocks, assignment of blocks, utilization reporting, turnover time, first case on-time starts, volumes, case duration accuracy, etc.
Leadership
Leads Change – Takes initiative; shows adaptability, flexibility; thinks and plans strategically; articulates clear vision and goals; champions innovation.
Drives for Results – Manages business operations effectively; effective follow-though and follow-up; takes accountability; solves problems and implements solutions; integrates financial understanding into solutions; demonstrates technical proficiency.
Building Teams – Clarifies roles and responsibilities; includes all organization personnel into decision making process; develops win-win solutions; collaborates with colleagues and peers; builds coalitions and partnerships; manages conflict constructively.
Focuses on Customer – Acts with urgency to address service issues; assesses and anticipates customer needs; demands highest level of service from self and staff; recovers quickly from service breakdowns and improves processes; ensures staff technical training and proficiency.
Communicates – Encourages candid exchange of ideas; articulates views clearly and directly; expresses facts clearly in writing; listens attentively to others; communicates a compelling vision to staff; communicates quickly issues affecting staff.
Performs other duties as assigned.
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities
Revenue cycle
Budget projection and statistical analysis
Strong analytical and communication skills (both oral and written)
Strong computer skills with proficiency in software applications
Experience and Education
REQUIRED:
Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Finance, or a related field and six (6) years of directly related experience with three (3) years in supervisory/management capacity.
PREFERRED:
Master’s degree in Business or Healthcare Administration and eight (8) years directly related experience with at least four (4) years in supervisory/ management capacity.
WORKING CONDITIONS
Work is performed primarily in a hospital or hospital clinic environment. Walking, standing, bending, turning and stooping.
The following is the acronym, “PACT”, and is fundamental to all clinical positions at UT Southwestern Medical Center:
P-Problem Solving: To achieve excellence in patient care and service, all employees are expected to take ownership in solving problems effectively, efficiently and to the satisfaction of the patient.
A-Ability, Attitude and Accountability: In keeping with a professional healthcare environment, all employees are expected to have the ability to perform their jobs and to appear and conduct themselves in a professional and positive manner.
C-Communications and Compassion: It is our goal that all our communications are clear, courteous, timely, and delivered with compassion, respect and appropriate confidentiality.
T-Teamwork: In our medical environment, our patients regard every employee they encounter as a member of the Southwestern Medical Center team. Our goal is to individually work hard to contribute to our team, support our co-workers, and to achieve not only excellent patient care and service, but also a satisfying, caring environment for each other.
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This position is security-sensitive and subject to Texas Education Code §51.215, which authorizes UT Southwestern to obtain criminal history record information.
UT Southwestern Medical Center is committed to an educational and working environment that provides equal opportunity to all members of the University community. As an equal opportunity employer, UT Southwestern prohibits unlawful discrimination, including discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, disability, genetic information, citizenship status, or veteran status. To learn more, please visit:
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