Revenue-cycle Executive (VP/Sr. Director Revenue Cycle, or RCM-focused Finance Leader)

$162/hrrate as listed

Mercor is recruiting VP- and Sr. Director-level revenue cycle leaders to review AI-generated RCM analyses, improvement plans, and payer strategy for accuracy and operational feasibility. Work is remote and project-based, with pay observed at $162/hr.

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What the work involves

You will read AI outputs the way you would read a consultant's deck or a director's turnaround memo — and then say precisely where it breaks. Typical tasks include grading an AI-generated denial-trend analysis against the underlying data, judging whether a proposed cost-to-collect reduction plan is achievable in a multi-entity health system, rewriting a weak strategic recommendation into one you would actually present to a board, and annotating where a model confuses gross vs. net collection rate, misreads a payer contract term, or proposes automation that ignores front-end registration realities. Much of the work is structured: rubric-scored comparisons between two model responses, written rationales, and occasional authored reference answers that become training targets.

What the platform screens for

Mercor's screen is AI-led and leans on verifiable specifics. Expect to be asked what your net collection rate and days in A/R actually were, how many FTEs and how much annual net patient revenue you owned, which EHR and bolt-on RCM platforms you ran, and what a specific transformation initiative delivered — in dollars, not adjectives. Follow-ups go a level deeper than the first answer, so approximations that sound rehearsed tend to surface quickly. Reviewers also look for evaluation judgment: the ability to distinguish an answer that is wrong from one that is merely incomplete, and to explain the difference in writing that a non-clinical annotator could follow.

Logistics

Fully remote, asynchronous, no fixed shifts; most contributors work in blocks of a few hours.
Typical commitments run 5–20 hours per week, project-dependent and not guaranteed to be continuous.
Pay is observed at $162/hr for this listing; rates vary by project, batch, and calibration performance.
Engagements are contractor-based and scoped in waves — some experts are onboarded to a single evaluation set, others recur across quarters.
Reliable written English matters as much as domain depth, since your rationales are the deliverable.

What they look for

10+ years progressive revenue cycle leadership, including 5+ at VP/Sr. Director level
End-to-end RCM command: patient access, coding, denials, A/R, collections
Managed care contracting and payer reimbursement strategy
Financial performance management — P&L, budgets, KPI reporting to executives and boards
Clear written English suitable for structured evaluation rationales
HFMA credentials (FHFMA, CHFP, or CRCR) or large-scale EHR/RCM platform experience

Before you apply

Would you pass this screen?

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Do you have at least 10 years of progressive revenue cycle experience, with at least 5 of those years in a VP, Sr. Director, or equivalent executive-level revenue cycle role?
Revenue Cycle Leadership Experience · required
Have you directly managed or led operations across all three phases of revenue cycle—front-end (patient access, eligibility), mid-cycle (coding, claims submission), and back-end (denials, collections)?
End-to-End Revenue Cycle Mastery · required
Have you actively negotiated, reviewed, or managed managed care payer contracts, including rate negotiation, contract optimization, or payer relationship strategy?
Managed Care Contracting Experience · preferred
Have you led a major revenue cycle transformation initiative (process redesign, technology implementation, organizational restructuring, or multi-site consolidation) that resulted in measurable financial improvement?
Large-Scale Transformation Track Record · preferred
Have you owned P&L responsibility, budget management, or financial performance reporting for a revenue cycle operation generating at least $50 million in annual net patient revenue?
Financial P&L Responsibility · preferred
Have you held a revenue cycle leadership role in a hospital, health system, physician group, or other licensed healthcare delivery organization (not a vendor, consulting firm, or service bureau)?
Healthcare Organization Type · required

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Included with this listing

Interview prep — 10 questions

Matched to what this platform's screening actually measures. Answer each out loud in 60–90 seconds: claim → concrete example → implication.

What it tests: Whether they've actually run P&L-scale RCM change, not just participated in one; whether they track the right KPIs (net collection rate, days in A/R, denial rate, cost-to-collect) rather than vanity numbers.
A strong answer: They describe a specific, measurable problem (e.g., 'denial rate was 8%, days in A/R 52'), the intervention they owned (process redesign, technology, staffing, payer relations), and the outcome in terms the business cares about (denial rate dropped to 4%, cash flow improved by $X million).
Where people lose it: Claiming credit for initiatives they didn't lead, or citing improvements without baseline and endpoint data—especially confusing activity ('we hired coders') with results ('coding accuracy went from 87% to 94%').