Documentation & Coding Auditor

About the role

The Documentation and Coding Auditor supports the billing compliance program by helping prevent, detect, and respond to billing, coding, reimbursement, and documentation risks. This role conducts proactive monitoring, auditing, education, and risk assessment activities while also responding to identified concerns, audit findings, regulatory changes, and reported compliance issues.

Responsibilities

• Plan and perform proactive compliance activities, including risk-based audits, pre-bill or concurrent reviews, data monitoring, targeted education, policy or template reviews, and department consultations.
• Identify and address billing compliance risks before issues escalate by using audit trends, payer updates, denial patterns, regulatory changes, stakeholder feedback, and risk assessment results.
• Partner with departments before new services, workflows, locations, provider groups, or documentation tools are implemented to assess and reduce billing, coding, documentation, supervision, and reimbursement risks.
• Maintain or contribute to tracking tools, such as issue logs, risk registers, work plan trackers, audit dashboards, corrective action trackers, education trackers, consultation logs, and reporting calendars.
• Prepare and present ideas, findings, and information in a clear, concise, and professional manner, communicating effectively through excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Work collaboratively with providers, residents, coding staff, clinic administrators, leadership, and other stakeholders.
• Assist in annual Compliance Symposium.
• Participate in annual risk assessment and work plan development.
• Travel to Lubbock for staff meetings, work plan development meetings, and other functions (usually two to three trips per year, may include overnight stay).

Requirements

• High School graduate or equivalency and five (5) years of medical billing, coding, and reimbursement experience, of which one (1) year may be as a coding auditor. Additional job-specific education may substitute for the experience.
• Active professional coding certification from an accredited organization, e.g., American Association of Professional Coders (AAPC), American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA). Certification must remain current during term of employment.
• Knowledge of CPT, ICD-CM, ICD-10, and HCPCS nomenclature.

Travel required: up to 25%. Work location: Amarillo.

Benefits

TTUHSC is committed to creating an environment where team members can thrive, offering comprehensive benefits and programs to support well-being:

• Health Plans + Supplemental Coverage Options – Individual health insurance provided at no cost for full-time team members.
• Paid Time Off – Including holidays, vacation, sick leave, and more.
• Retirement Plans.
• Wellness Programs.
• Certified Mother-Friendly Workplace.
• Lifelong learning programs, recognition programs, and health and wellness initiatives.
• Additional perks, such as special membership rates at local gyms and golf courses, access to state-of-the-art software and facilities, and discounts on travel, technology, entertainment, and more.

Pay

Pay basis: Hourly. Pay grade range: $21.28 – $29.74.

About TTUHSC

Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center (TTUHSC) enriches the lives of others by educating students, providing excellent patient care, and advancing knowledge through innovative research. TTUHSC graduates more health care professionals than any other health-related institution in Texas, conferring 24.2% of all degrees and certificates awarded in the state. The institution provides comprehensive clinical services to over 10 million individuals across 121 counties, dedicated to advancing health throughout Texas and beyond.