Senior Consultant - Epic - Financial Assistance and Estimates
Posted Sep 3, 2026 · We last checked this listing on Oct 6, 2026
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About your past
What Epic build have you done for financial assistance and patient estimates?
What they are checking: Whether their hands-on experience matches this specialized area of Epic revenue cycle work.
Tell me about a time you made a process easier for patients.
What they are checking: Whether they care about the patient experience in billing, not only the system build.
How would you explain to a hospital leader why estimate accuracy matters for collections?
What they are checking: Whether they can connect patient-facing work to financial outcomes leaders care about.
What would you do
Patients are complaining that estimates are far off from their final bills. How would you investigate?
What they are checking: Whether they can trace the gap to contracts, benefits or charge data rather than blaming patients or payers.
Financial counselors want an estimate step skipped to save time. What do you do?
What they are checking: Whether they weigh staff efficiency against compliance and patient needs before changing workflow.
About the work
Walk me through how a patient estimate is generated in Epic and what drives its accuracy.
What they are checking: Whether they understand how benefits, charges and contracts combine to produce an estimate.
How do the federal price transparency rules and the No Surprises Act affect estimate work for a health system?
What they are checking: Whether they know the regulations that make accurate estimates a compliance issue, not just a service.
How would you build a financial assistance workflow in Epic that screens patients fairly and consistently?
What they are checking: Whether they can design screening and approvals that follow policy and treat patients equally.
How does financial assistance tie to nonprofit hospital requirements under 501(r)?
What they are checking: Whether they understand the tax-exempt rules that shape financial assistance policy and billing.
How do you test that a financial assistance discount applies correctly to the right accounts?
What they are checking: Whether they test thoroughly, since errors here directly affect patient bills.
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