What LifeMed Alaska Offers
LifeMed Alaska delivers a mission driven environment with a competitive salary and a collaborative culture. This onsite role in Anchorage, AK combines financial leadership with hands on revenue cycle management, supporting life saving air, rotor, and ground transports. The position offers USD 130,000 - 140,000 per year and the opportunity to partner with operations, dispatch, and billing to ensure every transport is accurately captured and reimbursed.
Role Overview
The Controller provides financial leadership and revenue cycle oversight, ensuring GAAP compliant accounting and cross functional collaboration across operations, dispatch, and billing. You will guide the accounting team, work closely with clinical and administrative partners, and drive improvements in workflows, reimbursement, and denials reduction. Responsibilities include budgeting, forecasting, and delivering dashboards and insights to leadership and the Board.
Responsibilities
- Lead all accounting operations including general ledger, AP/AR, payroll, fixed assets, and month end close, ensuring GAAP compliant practices and strong internal controls.
- Produce timely financial statements, variance analyses, and management dashboards that leadership and the Board can rely on.
- Oversee department budgeting and provide financial insight that informs strategic decisions.
- Oversee the end to end billing and collections process for all transport segments for Air, Rotor, and Ground.
- Partner with dispatch and clinical teams to validate flight logs, mileage, medical necessity, and payer responsibility.
- Monitor KPIs including transports, charges, collections, AR aging, DSO, denial rates, underpayments, and payer mix.
- Lead continuous improvement initiatives to strengthen workflows, optimize reimbursement, and reduce denials.
- Ensure LifeMed maximizes revenue opportunities through coordination with billing and compliance.
- Develop the annual budget and rolling forecast processes.
- Provide weekly and monthly operational performance reporting to leadership and the Board.
- Deliver rate modeling, segment performance analysis, cost analysis, and RCM driven insights to support pricing strategy and payer negotiations.
- Coordinate with external auditors and tax partners and ensure compliance with applicable financial regulations.
- Lead and mentor accounting team members.
- Serve as a strategic partner to operations, clinical leadership, dispatch, and administrative teams.
- Improve systems, automation, and processes across finance and RCM.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field
- Strong GAAP knowledge and financial reporting experience
- Experience overseeing or working closely with healthcare revenue cycle operations or billing performance
- Experience analyzing revenue cycle metrics such as AR aging, denial trends, payer mix, and reimbursement performance
- Strong accounting and financial reporting experience
Technologies
- ImageTrend
- Zoll
- ESO
- Flight Vector billing modules
Overview and Culture
At LifeMed Alaska, every flight, mile, and patient matters—and so does the financial engine that supports it. We seek a Controller who understands that revenue cycle management is mission critical in air medical and EMS operations. This is a hands on leadership role at the intersection of operations, clinical care, dispatch, and billing, ensuring every transport is accurately captured, coded, and reimbursed. If you have experience in air ambulance, EMS billing, or complex healthcare RCM environments, your attention to detail will directly influence reimbursement and operational success. You’ll lead financial accounting and reporting while overseeing revenue cycle performance and partnering with our third party billing team to monitor accuracy, trends, and collections for air and ground transports.
Who You Are
You are analytical and detail driven, yet you maintain a broad view of business impact. You thrive in fast paced, high accountability environments and communicate clearly with clinical leaders and finance teams. You translate numbers into actions, explaining what they mean and what to do next.
Why This Role Matters
Transports in Alaska are essential for access to care in remote communities. Strong financial leadership ensures we sustain this critical service. This role supports mission continuity and operational excellence, offering a chance to build systems, improve reimbursement performance, and serve as a strategic partner.