Key Responsibilities
1. HIS Master Data Management
- Manage and maintain critical HIS master data required for accurate RCM billing and revenue capture.
- Maintain pricing masters, including tariffs, rate plans, effective dates, payer-specific pricing and related configurations.
- Maintain package masters, including package components, pricing, validity and payer/plan applicability.
- Manage Insurance Plan / Policy Masters, including insurer, plan, network and rate-plan mappings.
- Ensure timely and accurate implementation of approved pricing, contractual, payer and regulatory changes within HIS.
- Perform detailed validation and QC of master-data updates before and after implementation.
- Ensure appropriate documentation, approvals and audit trails are maintained for master-data changes.
- Identify and resolve incorrect mappings, duplicate masters, configuration inconsistencies and other data-quality issues.
2. HIS System & Process Improvements
- Proactively identify system and process gaps within the RCM billing lifecycle and assess their operational and financial impact.
- Review existing workflows, system configurations and business processes to identify opportunities to improve efficiency, controls and billing accuracy.
- Work with RCM stakeholders and IT/HIS teams to define and implement system enhancements addressing identified gaps.
- Translate operational requirements into business requirements, functional specifications and system/process improvement opportunities.
- Evaluate opportunities to introduce system controls, validations, alerts, workflow changes and automated checks to prevent errors at source.
- Participate in solution design, testing, UAT and implementation of system and process enhancements.
- Monitor implemented changes to ensure the intended business outcome is achieved and identify any downstream impacts.
- Maintain a structured log of system/process improvement opportunities, prioritizing initiatives based on business impact, risk, effort and revenue implications.
3. Digital Solutions & Automation
- Identify manual, repetitive and error-prone RCM activities that can be improved through automation, digital tools or workflow solutions.
- Work with IT and relevant stakeholders to test and operationalize solutions.
- Assess the effectiveness of implemented solutions through measurable improvements in accuracy, turnaround time, manual effort and process control.
- Continuously identify opportunities to simplify and digitize RCM processes.
4. Master Data Quality & System Controls
- Establish and perform appropriate maker-checker and QC controls for critical HIS master-data updates.
- Conduct periodic audits of pricing, package and insurance master data.
- Validate effective dates, pricing logic, payer mappings and other critical parameters against approved source documents.
- Analyse billing issues linked to incorrect system configuration and perform root-cause analysis.
- Recommend system or process controls to prevent recurring errors.
- Ensure master-data standards and system configurations are consistently applied across facilities and business units.
5. RCM Analytics & Operational Insights
- Analyse RCM operational data to identify billing trends, anomalies, process gaps and potential revenue leakage.
- Develop and maintain operational reports and dashboards supporting RCM performance monitoring.
- Analyse the impact of pricing, system and process changes on billing outcomes.
- Provide data-driven insights to support prioritization of system enhancements and process improvements.
- Support RCM management with analysis of operational issues and improvement opportunities.