Job Description

California Rural Healthcare Finance and Revenue Cycle Leadership Opportunities

Help Us Build a Better Way for Rural Healthcare

This application may connect you with the specific opportunity you were viewing, as well as other current or upcoming rural healthcare positions that align with your experience and goals.

By joining the Rural Staffing Services Talent Network, you are helping us build a more thoughtful and connected approach to rural recruitment, one that allows experienced professionals and California healthcare organizations to find one another more quickly when the right need arises.

Every application helps strengthen a growing network of people who are willing to bring their experience, leadership, resourcefulness, and heart to rural communities.

Explore Rural Healthcare Opportunities at RSSJobs.org

This application may connect you with the specific opportunity you were viewing, as well as other current or upcoming rural healthcare positions throughout California that align with your experience and goals.

Visit www.RSSJobs.org to explore additional rural healthcare opportunities and communities.

Finance and Revenue Cycle Leadership Opportunities Across California

Rural Staffing Services partners with rural hospitals, clinics, public hospital districts, regional health systems, community health centers, tribal healthcare organizations, long-term care providers, and community healthcare organizations throughout California to identify experienced finance and revenue cycle leaders who understand the unique realities of rural healthcare.

We are currently connecting with professionals who may be interested in active and upcoming finance, accounting, reimbursement, revenue cycle, billing, coding, and patient financial services leadership opportunities across California.

These opportunities may include leadership within:

• Critical Access Hospitals
• Rural and community hospitals
• Rural Health Clinics
• Federally Qualified Health Centers
• Public hospital districts
• Tribal healthcare organizations
• Regional health systems
• Long-term care and senior care organizations
• Integrated rural healthcare systems
• Multi-site and regional healthcare networks

This Is More Than a Finance Role

Strong financial and revenue cycle operations help protect healthcare access for entire communities and regions.

These leaders ensure organizations can accurately capture revenue, manage resources responsibly, support employees, maintain compliance, and remain financially strong enough to continue caring for the people who depend on them.

In California, rural healthcare organizations may provide services across large and geographically diverse areas, including mountain communities, agricultural valleys, forests, high desert regions, tribal lands, remote coastal areas, and small towns located far from major healthcare centers.

Finance and revenue cycle leaders may need to understand how travel, workforce housing, temporary staffing, limited local services, supply costs, wildfire disruptions, transportation barriers, telehealth, multi-site operations, and care delivered across rural communities affect the organization's financial performance.

Within rural healthcare organizations, these leaders often work across departments and may have broader responsibilities than they would in a larger system.

The strongest leaders understand how registration, eligibility, coding, charge capture, billing, reimbursement, patient accounts, accounting, clinical documentation, and operational decisions connect to one another.

They are collaborative, detail-oriented, approachable, and able to turn complex financial information into practical guidance for employees, department leaders, executives, governing boards, tribal partners, and community leaders.

Opportunities May Include

This application may connect you with current or upcoming roles such as:

• Controller
• Assistant Controller
• Finance Director or Manager
• Accounting Director or Manager
• Revenue Cycle Director or Manager
• Patient Financial Services Director or Manager
• Patient Accounts Manager
• Business Office Director or Manager
• Billing Director or Manager
• Coding Director, Manager, or Supervisor
• Health Information Management Revenue Cycle Leader
• Reimbursement Director or Manager
• Chargemaster or Charge Description Master Leader
• Accounts Payable or Accounts Receivable Leader
• Payroll Leader
• Financial Planning and Analysis Leader
• Regional Finance or Revenue Cycle Leader
• Senior billing, coding, reimbursement, or patient accounts supervisory roles

What You May Lead

Responsibilities will vary by organization, community, and position and may include:

• Leading accounting, finance, revenue cycle, billing, coding, reimbursement, or patient financial services functions
• Supporting accurate and timely financial reporting
• Managing month-end and year-end close processes
• Developing budgets, forecasts, financial models, and performance reports
• Strengthening billing, collections, cash flow, reimbursement, and denial-management performance
• Monitoring key revenue cycle metrics and identifying opportunities for improvement
• Supporting accurate patient registration, eligibility verification, coding, charge capture, claims submission, and payment posting
• Overseeing patient accounts, financial counseling, collection processes, and assistance programs
• Ensuring compliance with payer, regulatory, accounting, grant, and documentation requirements
• Preparing for financial, coding, billing, reimbursement, or compliance audits
• Developing policies, procedures, workflows, reporting standards, and internal controls
• Training, mentoring, and supporting finance and revenue cycle employees
• Collaborating with clinical, operational, information technology, health information management, compliance, and executive leaders
• Helping employees understand how documentation and departmental workflows affect reimbursement and organizational sustainability
• Supporting system implementations, process improvements, departmental restructuring, or centralized service models
• Managing financial or revenue cycle functions across multiple facilities, clinics, tribal communities, or rural regions
• Supporting reimbursement involving Medicare, Medicaid, commercial insurance, government programs, grants, and patient-pay accounts
• Evaluating the financial impact of medical travel, workforce shortages, temporary staffing, housing, wildfire disruptions, supply costs, and regional operations
• Helping ensure essential healthcare services remain financially sustainable and available closer to home

What You Will Bring

Qualifications will vary by opportunity, but organizations may seek:

• Progressive experience in healthcare finance, accounting, revenue cycle, billing, coding, reimbursement, or patient financial services
• Previous leadership experience as a director, manager, controller, supervisor, or comparable leader
• Knowledge of healthcare reimbursement, payer requirements, billing practices, accounting standards, and financial operations
• Experience with Medicare, Medicaid, commercial insurance, government programs, grants, and patient-pay accounts
• An understanding of hospital, clinic, long-term care, or healthcare-system workflows
• Experience analyzing financial or revenue cycle performance and communicating findings clearly to leadership
• Experience improving collections, denials, coding accuracy, charge capture, reimbursement, cash flow, or accounts receivable performance
• Strong organizational, analytical, problem-solving, communication, and team-development skills
• The ability to collaborate across clinical, operational, financial, technical, executive, tribal, and community teams
• Experience with Critical Access Hospitals, Rural Health Clinics, FQHCs, public hospital districts, tribal healthcare organizations, regional health systems, long-term care providers, or community healthcare organizations
• Experience supporting multi-site organizations or services spread across significant geographic distances may be valuable
• Experience with grants, federal funding, rural reimbursement, tribal healthcare finance, or public-sector finance may be preferred for some opportunities
• Relevant education or professional credentials based on the position
• A collaborative, transparent, practical, and relationship-focused leadership style

Some opportunities may prefer credentials such as CPA, CHFP, CRCR, CPC, CCS, RHIA, RHIT, or another finance, coding, revenue cycle, reimbursement, or health information certification.

Specific education, certification, travel, reporting, and experience requirements will depend on the organization and role.

Types of Opportunities

Opportunities may include:

• Permanent leadership positions
• Interim leadership assignments
• Regional or multi-site leadership roles
• Hospital or clinic-based positions
• Public hospital district finance or revenue cycle leadership
• Tribal healthcare finance or revenue cycle leadership
• Hybrid or partially remote opportunities
• Temporary-to-permanent opportunities
• Financial or revenue cycle stabilization assignments
• Short-term departmental or project support
• Direct temporary employment with the healthcare organization
• Independent contract arrangements where legally appropriate

The schedule, compensation, relocation assistance, travel requirements, reporting structure, departmental scope, and employment arrangement will be explained before you decide whether to move forward with a specific opportunity.

Why Rural California?

California's rural healthcare organizations serve communities across mountain regions, agricultural valleys, forests, high desert areas, tribal lands, remote coastal communities, and small towns located far from major medical centers.

Some communities are connected by major highways and regional corridors. Others may be hours from larger hospitals, airports, specialty care, and additional healthcare resources.

These organizations often operate with lean teams, limited resources, complex reimbursement structures, and an enormous responsibility to the communities they serve.

A delay in reimbursement, missed charge, coding error, registration issue, or breakdown in claims processing can have a meaningful effect on an organization's ability to maintain services.

Strong finance and revenue cycle leadership helps protect emergency care, outpatient services, long-term care, behavioral health, primary care access, tribal healthcare services, and other essential services that patients might otherwise have to travel significant distances to receive.

Leading finance or revenue cycle operations in rural California provides the opportunity to see the direct impact of your work.

Improving a workflow, supporting a team, reducing denials, strengthening documentation, or improving reimbursement can help preserve services, protect jobs, support employees, and keep care available closer to home.

You may help stabilize a department, improve cash flow, strengthen coding accuracy, implement a new system, mentor local employees, or build a more connected process across multiple facilities and communities.

The work requires adaptability, persistence, attention to detail, and a genuine commitment to the organization's mission.

Join the Rural Staffing Services Talent Network

By applying through this page, you are joining the confidential Rural Staffing Services Talent Network.

You may be considered for current or upcoming finance and revenue cycle leadership opportunities throughout California that align with your experience, goals, preferred region, and availability.

Please submit your resume and let us know:

• Which California communities or regions you would consider
• Whether you are interested in rural, mountain, agricultural, tribal, high desert, coastal, or regional organizations
• Whether you are open to relocation or regional travel
• Whether you are interested in permanent, interim, hybrid, remote, or multiple types of opportunities
• Your experience with rural hospitals, Critical Access Hospitals, FQHCs, public hospital districts, tribal healthcare organizations, regional systems, long-term care, or community healthcare organizations
• Which position or community you were viewing on RSSJobs.org

Our team personally reviews each application. When we identify an opportunity that may be a strong match, we will contact you directly to share more about the organization, community, responsibilities, financial priorities, relocation considerations, and next steps.

Your information will be handled professionally and confidentially.

Discover More Rural Healthcare Opportunities

Visit www.RSSJobs.org to explore additional rural healthcare positions, leadership opportunities, and communities throughout California.

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