The posting
Minimum Hiring Wage:
From $67,662.40 a year
Job Details:
Responsible for managing the day-to-day operations of all areas/functions of Health Information Management, including Release of Information, Record Processing, and Coding. The role manages the activities of the staff and assures health information activities are meeting departmental standards.
Responsible for managing the day-to-day operations of all areas/functions of Health Information Management, including Release of Information, Record Processing, and Coding. The role manages the activities of the staff and assures health information activities are meeting departmental standards, provides leadership and strategic direction across Great River Health entities coding operations, and works collaboratively with Providers and Clinical Leadership to ensure documentation accurately reflects provision of clinical care. This position works to appropriately integrate operations, facilitate best practices, achieve efficiencies, and align with GRH's strategic plan while maintaining quality and customer service standards and ensuring the department is operating under GRH policies and procedures, and applicable State and Federal laws and regulations.
Job Description:
What you will do
- Ensures optimization of revenue through complete, compliant and accurate ICD-10-CM, CPT and/or HCPCS coding while improving patient, physician, and other customer relations.
- Oversees the Coding operational teams and collaborates with department leadership across GRH to ensure timeliness and accuracy of Facility and Professional Coding.
- Designs, performs, and appropriately utilizes the findings of performance improvement activities of coding services, and follows up on both positive and negative quality improvement findings.
- Establishes performance standards (qualitative and quantitative) for Coding.
- Monitors performance and directs improvement efforts when performance gaps are identified.
- Manages the development and implementation of training and education programs to address needs of the functional areas of responsibility and as mandated by regulatory, accrediting, licensing and department standard operating procedures.
- Ensures the integrity of clinical documentation that supports revenue cycle, clinical documentation improvement (CDI) and complete capture of the provision of patient care.
- Serves as an internal consultant on hospital and professional coding operations to include documentation to support coding.
- Provides weekly status report on key performance indicators and discharge not final coded trends.
- Work collaboratively with other health system departments related to the maintenance, integrity and confidentiality of the patient medical record.
- Create and update existing forms per health system guidelines and policies.
- Develop and implement coding and health information policies and procedures for managing patient records in compliance with legal and ethical standards. Ensure the integrity, confidentiality, and security of all health information system
- In coordination with Revenue Integrity and Compliance ensures completion of regularly scheduled coding audits of hospital and professional coders, to include feedback to individual coding staff. Assists with external coding audits that are completed at least yearly; develops and implements action plans to address identified coding deficiencies
- Responsible for CMS conditions of participation for medical record standards.
- Establishes a strategic relationship with third party vendors. Assesses new and existing vendor partnerships on an as needed basis.
Qualifications:
- Associate’s degree (AA) in Health Information Management or other related field (required)
- 4-6 years' Experience in hospital or professional coding or Health Information Management (required)
- Registered Health Information Technician (RHIT) Upon Hire or Certified Coding Specialist Upon Hire (required)
- Bachelor’s degree in arts/sciences (BA/BS) in Health Information Management or another related field (preferred)
- 1-3 years Leadership experience (preferred)
Benefits:
We are excited to offer an aggressive compensation and benefits package for qualifying positions, which includes:
- Competitive base pay
- Matching retirement programs
- Health, Dental and Vision plans
- Health Savings and Flexible Spending Accounts
- Employee discounts including car rental, cell-phone plans
- Employer-paid, Long-Term Disability, Life, and AD&D
- Paid time off (PTO)
- Education Assistance Program
- Employee Assistance Program
- Employee Referral Bonus Program
- Discounted cafeteria meals
- Paid Parental Leave
- Employee Service Recognition program
- Voluntary plans including: Life, AD&D, Short-Term Disability, Critical Illness, Accident, Insurance, and Hospital Indemnity
Great River Health and its affiliates are Equal Opportunity employers. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, age, national origin, mental or physical disability, genetic information, veteran status, or any other status protected by federal, state, or local law.
