PB Coding Manager

Job Description:

Essential Functions

• Continually assess coding workflows to guarantee timely turnaround, efficiency, and quality of processes
• Partners with Coding Supervisor(s) to develop action plans for areas that fall short of goals, including staffing and resource allocation, as well as performance improvement strategies.
• Oversees the interview and onboarding process, managing requisition requests, access, scheduling, and other related tasks.
• Collaborates with other Regional Coding Managers to evaluate the need for workflow standardization and Epic edits by monitoring denial trends, payer requirements, and provider needs.
• Provides support to Coding Supervisor(s) and documents required check-ins.
• Assists in business development efforts and onboarding new departments or service lines by attending project meetings, assigning coding resources, and evaluating current coding practices.
• Ensures support for providers, clinical staff, and operational functions, addressing and resolving issues as they arise.
• Utilizes organizational and departmental tools as applicable (e.g., Microsoft Office Suite products, Kronos, ServiceHub, Optum Encoder Pro, etc.).

Skills

• Medicare coding guidelines (i.e. NCCI, LCD/NCD)
• CPT
• HCPCS
• ICD-10
• Epic
• PB Resolute
• Accuracy
• Detail oriented
• Leadership
• Communication

Qualifications

Required

• Demonstrated experience leading a team of coding professionals.
• CPC-A (Certified Professional Coder - Apprentice), CPA (Certified Professional Coder), or CCS-P (Certified Coding Specialist – Physician)
• Demonstrated experience in healthcare revenue cycle.
• Demonstrates strong understanding of healthcare professional billing requirements.
• Demonstrated experience in a role implementing and/or adhering to KPI’s.
• Demonstrated experience in a role requiring data analysis to drive decisions.

Preferred

• Associates degree in health information management, healthcare administration or related field from an accredited institution.  Education will be verified. 
• AHIMA or AAPC coding credential
• Two (2) years of prior supervisory experience
• Five (5) years of revenue cycle experience
• Three (3) years of professional fee coding experience.
• Epic experience

Physical Requirements

• Ongoing need for employee to see and read information, documents, monitors, identify equipment and supplies, and be able to assess customer needs.
• Frequent interactions with providers, colleagues, customers, patients/clients, and visitors that require employee to verbally communicate as well as hear and understand spoken information, needs, and issues quickly and accurately.
• Manual dexterity of hands and fingers to manipulate complex and delicate equipment with precision and accuracy. This includes frequent computer use for typing, accessing needed information, etc.
• May have the same physical requirements as those of clinical or patient care jobs, when the leader takes clinical shifts.
• For roles requiring driving: Expected to drive a vehicle which requires sitting, seeing and reading signs, traffic signals, and other vehicles

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The hourly range for this position is listed below. Actual hourly rate dependent upon experience. 

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