Supervisor, Coding

About the Role

Supervises and coordinates medical record functions: acquisition and distribution, chart analysis, discharge coding, correspondence processing, quality audits, and workflow management across functional areas.

Responsibilities

• Promotes Coding department goals by selecting, motivating, and training capable team members.
• Leads the activities of assigned Coding team members by communicating and providing guidance toward achieving department objectives.
• Supervises medical record functions to ensure coding of charts is achieved within targets; supervises, hires, trains, disciplines, and evaluates staff performance; ensures timely completion of performance appraisals.
• Performs new employee orientation, including scheduling, training, and submission; plans, organizes, coordinates, and evaluates staffing requirements to meet operational goals; assigns and schedules direct reports for smooth workflow.
• Identifies, evaluates, and implements opportunities for efficiencies; generates department metrics; reports operational performance, justification, and/or corrective action.
• Builds and maintains a collection of reference tools, including codebooks, groupers, encoders, coding guidelines, dictionaries, and texts for organizational staff; collaborates in selecting, implementing, and operating electronic coding and documentation improvement software.
• Monitors interfaces with billing systems and workflow changes with computer patient information.
• Ensures integrity of encoder and abstracting systems by maintaining and revising data; reviews daily operations backlogs and computer problems; makes recommendations and takes corrective action.
• Collaborates with Education and Training to identify training needs and schedule training activities, including transitions.
• Collaborates with offices and operations to reduce and eliminate account holds.
• Researches, reviews, and evaluates “Best Practices” for implementation throughout the organization; ensures collaboration and communication.
• Reviews and monitors organizational contract services; ensures system-wide and vendor compliance; reports on issues and recommends corrective actions; reviews and approves vendor billing information.
• Audits patient logs, reports, and follows up on inconsistencies or inaccuracies in medical records; ensures inventory of supplies.
• Performs related duties as required.

Requirements

• Associate's Degree required, or equivalent combination of education and related experience.
• Current Professional Coder Certification or Current Coding Professional Certification required, plus specialized certifications as needed.
• 4-6 years of relevant experience and 0-2 years of leadership/management experience.

Pay

The salary range and/or hourly rate listed is a good faith determination of potential base compensation that may be offered to a successful applicant for this position at the time of this job advertisement and may be modified in the future. When determining a team member's base salary and/or rate, several factors may be considered as applicable (e.g., location, specialty, service line, years of relevant experience, education, credentials, negotiated contracts, budget, and internal equity).