Coding Supervisor

About the role

As a supervisor at Tegria, your primary responsibility is to oversee a team of Coders delivering Outsourced Coding Services to Critical Access Hospitals and Rural Health Clinics. Your role involves ensuring accurate and timely coding of medical records, maintaining compliance with coding standards, and streamlining coding workflows.

Responsibilities

• Lead the team to ensure accurate and timely coding of medical records, maintaining compliance with coding standards.
• Ensure all coding practices adhere to healthcare regulations, payer requirements, and internal policies.
• Contribute to precise billing and reimbursement by ensuring codes are assigned correctly for diagnoses, procedures, and services.
• Review and audit coded data to ensure accuracy, completeness, and compliance with ICD-10, CPT, and HCPCS coding guidelines.
• Resolve coding-related issues and discrepancies, collaborating with physicians, providers, billing, and other departments to clarify diagnoses, procedures, or billing codes.
• Provide ongoing training to coding staff on updates to coding procedures, regulations, and best practices.
• Offer opportunities for professional development to enhance team skills and maintain certification.
• Track and monitor individual coder performance, providing feedback, coaching, and corrective action when necessary.
• Ensure that coders meet accuracy standards.

Requirements

• High school diploma, GED, or equivalent.
• Certification requirement: CPC, CCA, CCS, CIC, or COC.
• 7+ years medical coding experience.
• University/college degree, or experience in medical records, claims, or billing areas is an asset.
• Previous medical office experience preferred.
• MEDITECH experience preferred.
• Able to work successfully with minimal supervision and with considerable latitude for independent judgement.
• Demonstrated ability to assist and mentor less experienced team members.
• Extensive knowledge of coding, abstracting, and relevant regulations.
• Experience with relevant software applications and systems, e.g., electronic medical record system.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite products.
• Demonstrated ability to audit and identify issues and resolve or escalate the issues as appropriate.
• Organized with exceptional verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong attention to detail.
• Strong commitment to ethical behavior and complying with laws and regulations involved in the job.
• Comfortable and accountable working in a remote work environment in which video conference calls and virtual shared workspaces and tools are common.
• Able to communicate tactfully and firmly with patients, providers, medical records staff, and third-party insurers.
• Must have a private, secure workspace available at home and access to internet with speed sufficient to perform the job.

Qualifications

• W2 project-based consultants will be expected to provide a computing device that adheres to industry standards and security best practices to use in satisfying the Project Services on behalf of Tegria.

Skills

• Strong organizational and communication skills.
• Ability to work independently and manage multiple tasks simultaneously.
• Attention to detail and accuracy.
• Knowledge of healthcare regulations and coding standards.
• Ability to work effectively in a team environment.

Benefits

Tegria offers a comprehensive benefits package including:

• Health and dental plans with nationally recognized networks.
• Vision benefits.
• Total wellness program.
• Employee assistance program.
• Professional development offerings.
• Opportunities for remote work.
• A generous paid-time-off program.

Pay

$75,000 - $100,000 annually.

Schedule

Full-time, remote work.