Vice President, Revenue Cycle, Patient Access

Sanford Health, the largest rural health system in the United States, is dedicated to transforming the health care experience and providing access to world‑class health care in America’s heartland.

Work Shift: Day (United States of America) | Scheduled Weekly Hours: 40 | Compensation: Union | Union Position: No

The Vice President, Revenue Cycle, Patient Access is responsible for providing strategic leadership and operational oversight for all enterprise front‑end revenue cycle functions across Sanford Health. This role leads the development, implementation, and optimization of processes that ensure a seamless patient financial experience while supporting organizational goals related to access, revenue integrity, operational efficiency, and financial performance.

• Provide enterprise leadership and strategic direction for front revenue cycle functions, including patient access operations, registration, scheduling optimization, insurance verification, pre‑registration, financial clearance, price transparency, upfront collections, and authorization processes.
• Develop and execute strategies to improve the patient financial experience while ensuring efficient and accurate capture of demographic, insurance, and financial information.
• Lead standardization and optimization efforts across regions, markets, clinics, hospitals, and service lines to create consistent and scalable revenue cycle processes.
• Partner with revenue cycle peers, clinical operations, finance, technology, compliance, and payer strategy leaders to identify opportunities, remove barriers, and improve end‑to‑end revenue cycle performance.
• Establish operational goals and performance metrics focused on improving access, reducing preventable denials, increasing automation, improving productivity, and enhancing financial outcomes.
• Advance technology, analytics, automation, and process improvement initiatives that support operational excellence and organizational sustainability.
• Develop and mentor revenue cycle leaders, building leadership capability, workforce engagement, accountability, and a culture of continuous improvement.

• Bachelor’s degree required.
• Master’s degree in Healthcare Administration, Business Administration, Finance, or related field preferred.
• Extensive progressive leadership experience within healthcare revenue cycle operations, patient access, healthcare finance, or related operational areas required.
• Experience leading within a large, complex, multi‑site healthcare system preferred.
• Must demonstrate strong executive leadership capabilities, strategic thinking, change leadership, financial acumen, operational discipline, and the ability to influence across diverse stakeholder groups.

Sanford is an EEO/AA Employer M/F/Disability/Vet.