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Your experience matters 

At Lifepoint Health, we are committed to empowering and supporting a diverse and determined workforce who can drive quality, scalability, and significant impact across our hospitals and communities. As a member of the Health Support Center (HSC) team, you'll support those that are in our facilities who are interfacing and providing care to our patients and community members to positively impact our mission of making communities healthier .

More about our team 

The Director, Hospital Based Provider Operations will oversee the operational execution of Hospital Based Services, including Hospital Medicine, Emergency Medicine, Anesthesia, and Radiology, by establishing and monitoring standardized workflows, performance metrics, and process improvements. This role will manage structured engagement with Hospital Based Providers and facility leaders, ensuring consistent onboarding, credentialing, performance evaluation, and ongoing development. 

The Director will operationalize the Hospital Based Provider strategy through systematic management of contracting, service-line assessments, joint ventures, and partnership performance, using data-driven insights to identify gaps and implement targeted interventions that optimize provider performance, service quality, and organizational outcomes.

How you'll contribute 

A Director Hospital Based Provider Operations who excels in this role:

• Partner with HSC leadership to implement standardized oversight processes for Hospital Based Services, ensuring alignment with organizational objectives.
• Assist with the financial oversight of anesthesia, radiology, emergency medicine, hospitalist, and other Hospital Based Service arrangements, including employed and contracted models, with accountability for budgeting, forecasting, and financial performance.
• Analyze professional service agreements and subsidy arrangements, evaluating financial risk, contract economics, reimbursement trends, and opportunities for cost optimization.
• Develop and maintain comprehensive financial models for Hospital Based Services, including pro forma analyses, service line profitability assessments, productivity benchmarking, and return-on-investment evaluations.
• Establish and oversee standardized processes for monitoring vendor and provider financial performance, including budget variance analysis, expense management, revenue trends, and contract compliance.
• Assist with the financial aspects of RFPs, contract negotiations, and vendor evaluations, including cost-benefit analyses, pricing assessments, and financial due diligence.
• Maintain a centralized inventory of all Hospital Based Provider relationships, ensuring accurate documentation and process visibility.
• Develop and manage a structured tracker for RFPs and contracts, monitoring progress, deadlines, and outcomes to support operational accountability.
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders and departments to align provider relations processes with strategic organizational goals.
• Prepare executive-level financial reports, presentations, and recommendations to support leadership decision-making regarding Hospital Based Services investments, partnerships, and operational strategies.
• Execute additional operational tasks assigned to support department and organizational initiatives.

Why join us

We believe that investing in our employees is the first step to providing excellent patient care. In addition to your base compensation, this position also offers: 

• Comprehensive Benefits: Multiple levels of medical, dental and vision coverage for full-time and part-time employees.
• Financial Protection & PTO: Life, accident, critical illness, hospital indemnity insurance, short- and long-term disability, paid family leave and paid time off.
• Financial & Career Growth: Higher education and certification tuition assistance, loan assistance and 401(k) retirement package and company match.
• Employee Well-being: Mental, physical, and financial wellness programs (free gym memberships, virtual care appointments, mental health services and discount programs).
• Professional Development: Ongoing learning and career advancement opportunities.

What we're looking for 
Education: 

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience.

Experience: 

• Minimum of 3 years of progressive healthcare finance, service line management, or operational finance experience
• Strong knowledge of healthcare accounting, finance, reimbursement methodologies, physician compensation models, provider subsidy structures, budgeting, forecasting, financial modeling, and healthcare regulatory requirements affecting hospital-based services.
• Demonstrated success in financial analysis, contract valuation and negotiation, business case development, service line profitability assessment, and strategic planning, with the ability to translate complex financial data into actionable recommendations for executive leadership.

Travel

• Up to 50% of the time

EEOC Statement

"Lifepoint Health is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Lifepoint Health is committed to Equal Employment Opportunity for all applicants and employees and complies with all applicable laws prohibiting discrimination and harassment in employment."

You must be authorized to work in the United States without employer sponsorship.

Lifepoint Health is a leader in community-based care and driven by a mission of Making Communities Healthier. Our diversified healthcare delivery network spans 29 states and includes 63 community hospital campuses, 32 rehabilitation and behavioral health hospitals, and more than 170 additional sites of care across the healthcare continuum, such as acute rehabilitation units, outpatient centers and post-acute care facilities. We believe that success is achieved through talented people. We want to create places where employees want to work, with opportunities to pursue meaningful and satisfying careers that truly make a difference in communities across the country.We employ and provide care to people from all walks of life. We are committed to promoting healing, providing hope, preserving dignity and producing value with an inclusive workforce in which diversity is leveraged, respected, and reflective of the patients, family members, customers and team members we serve.