Health Information Management Director

About the role

This position is incentive eligible. Salary Estimate: $63793.60 - $108472.00 / year. Learn More About The Benefits Offered For This Job.

Responsibilities

• Assist with the Horizon Patient Folder (HPF)/McKesson Patient Folder (MPF) and HIM Shared Services activities, including but not limited to: FTE management, forms management, interface workbook, operational assessment, action planning, productivity monitoring, release of information management, record storage and destruction management, staff education, and HIM operations cleanup.
• Participate in communication efforts with HIM personnel, facility departments, facility department and unit leadership, facility leadership, and medical staff, including serving as a key HIM contact for facility implementation activities and project core team meetings.
• Manage facility based HIM operations and staff including, but not limited to, record pick up and reconciliation, release of information request processing, hardcopy retrieval of medical records, tumor and/or trauma registry, and processing of birth certificate/paternity papers as applicable.
• Routinely assist in the performance of facility based HIM operations including, but not limited to, ad hoc record pickup and reconciliation, release of information request processing, and hardcopy retrieval of medical records as needed.
• Perform facility unbilled activities including physician query follow up, physician incomplete record follow-up, collaboration with facility department leaders in monitoring and working unbilled reports, working the applicable HPF/MPF queues, working the applicable unbilled management reports and queues, (e.g., DET/eRequest, Bill 49) and management of HIM operations unbilled processes.
• Oversee facility-specific 360 Encompass Computer Assisted Coding (CAC) implementation activities for all patient types. Supports and sustains the HIM operational aspects of CAC post go-live.
• Work all applicable HPF/MPF workflow queues (includes, but is not limited to, the Facility HIM Department Queue, all Coding Pend for Queues, Review Queues, Unknown Document Queue, Cancelled Accounts Queue and all Wait for Workflow Trigger Queues) according to established workflow guidelines and schedules.
• Work collaboratively with Medical Staff and Facility Leadership to comply with standards and guidelines enforced through the Medical Staff Bylaws/Rules and Regulations (e.g., suspension of privileges) and is responsible for facilitation and execution of physician notification processes regarding medical record documentation deficiency, delinquency, and physician suspension.
• May serve as the Facility Privacy Official, Records Management Coordinator, RAC Coordinator, and/or perform state reporting duties.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Business or related field required. Degree requirement may be substituted by current enrollment in a Bachelor's Degree program or equivalent work experience with CEO approval.
• A minimum of one year of HIM department experience is preferred; three or more years is strongly preferred.
• A minimum of one-year healthcare management experience is strongly preferred.
• RHIA or RHIT strongly preferred.