Associate Director - AR & Denial Prevention

The Associate Director, AR & Denial Prevention, is responsible for the strategic oversight and operational execution of all accounts receivable follow-up, denial prevention, appeals, workers’ compensation reimbursement recovery, personal injury receivables, and lien proceedings. This role ensures aggressive, compliant, and timely revenue recovery while minimizing aging accounts receivable, reducing denial rates, and strengthening front-end denial prevention processes. The position oversees internal AR teams and external vendors and partners closely with Billing Operations leadership, Revenue Integrity, Compliance, and Finance.

This is a remote role with hiring only in AZ, CA, NM, NV, OR, TX, and WA.

Responsibilities include leading all AR follow-up functions for commercial, Medicare, workers’ compensation, personal injury, and self-pay accounts, establishing and monitoring KPI dashboards, developing AR work queue stratification models, presenting monthly AR performance to executive leadership, overseeing denial management and appeals teams, implementing denial root cause analysis, partnering with Revenue Integrity and Coding to address systemic issues, overseeing workers’ compensation strategy across vendors, ensuring compliance with fee schedules and monitoring underpayments, collaborating with legal counsel and third-party representatives, and supporting monthly AR balancing, cash reporting, and reconciliation with Finance.

Qualifications include a bachelor’s degree in healthcare administration, business, finance, or related field; 7-10+ years progressive revenue cycle management leadership experience; 3+ years managing AR in a high-volume environment; strong experience in pain management, workers’ compensation, or procedural-based specialties; demonstrated success leading billing insourcing or large-scale RCM transformations; strong knowledge of CPT billing; excellent analytical, communication, and leadership skills; experience with multiple EHR/practice management systems such as IMS, Nextgen, Athena, or eClinicalWorks; and advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel and other Microsoft Office applications.

Compensation range is $130,000 to $145,000 annually.

Benefits include generous medical, dental, vision, and prescription benefits (PPO & HMO), 401(K) with employer matching, license and tuition reimbursements, paid time off, holiday and floating holiday pay, employee perks and discount programs, and a supportive environment for growth and success.

Boomerang Healthcare specializes in multidisciplinary pain management, focusing on personalized treatment plans to help patients return to normal activities.