Job Description:
The Manager of PB Coding is responsible for overseeing the evaluation and optimization of coding workflows, ensuring timely turnaround, efficiency, and quality within the coding team. This role requires collaboration with various stakeholders to support business development, manage staff, and maintain adherence to departmental protocols.
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
Location:
Lake Park Building
Work City:
West Valley City
Work State:
Utah
Scheduled Weekly Hours:
40
The hourly range for this position is listed below. Actual hourly rate dependent upon experience.
$38.55 - $59.49
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