Central Coding Director

Job Description

About the Role

Title: Central Coding Director

Location: Nashville United States

Job Description:

Description

This position is incentive eligible.

Introduction

Are you looking for a work environment where diversity and inclusion thrive? Submit your application for our Central Coding Director opening with Parallon today and find out what it truly means to be a part of the HCA Healthcare team.

Benefits

Work from Home, offers a total rewards package that supports the health, life, career and retirement of our colleagues. The available plans and programs include:

Comprehensive medical coverage that covers many common services at no cost or for a low copay. Plans include prescription drug and behavioral health coverage as well as free telemedicine services and free AirMed medical transportation.

Additional options for dental and vision benefits, life and disability coverage, flexible spending accounts, supplemental health protection plans (accident, critical illness, hospital indemnity), auto and home insurance, identity theft protection, legal counseling, long-term care coverage, moving assistance, pet insurance and more.

Free counseling services and resources for emotional, physical and financial wellbeing

401(k) Plan with a 100% match on 3% to 9% of pay (based on years of service)

Employee Stock Purchase Plan with 10% off HCA Healthcare stock

Family support through fertility and family building benefits with Progyny and adoption assistance.

Referral services for child, elder and pet care, home and auto repair, event planning and more

Consumer discounts through Abenity and Consumer Discounts

Retirement readiness, rollover assistance services and preferred banking partnerships

Education assistance (tuition, student loan, certification support, dependent scholarships)

Colleague recognition program

Time Away From Work Program (paid time off, paid family leave, long- and short-term disability coverage and leaves of absence)

Employee Health Assistance Fund that offers free employee-only coverage to full-time and part-time colleagues based on income.

Learn more about Employee Benefits

Note: Eligibility for benefits may vary by location.

We are seeking a Central Coding Director for our team to ensure that we continue to provide all patients with high quality, efficient care. Did you get into our industry for these reasons? We are an amazing team that works hard to support each other and are seeking a phenomenal addition like you who feels patient care is as meaningful as we do. We want you to apply!

Job Summary and Qualifications

The Central Coding Director is responsible for assisting in the development and evolution of the overall strategy for Parallon’s Coding Physician Service Center. The Central Coding Director is responsible for overall coding compliance and daily coding operations for the Coding Physician Service Center. The Central Coding Director interprets policies and procedures, recommends changes as appropriate, and provides relevant feedback. The Central Coding Director assists the ACOO, Coding PSC, with the oversight and implementation of coding consolidation planning, practice expectation agreements, budgets, workflow processes and internal controls. This person serves as a key promoter of the Parallon Coding PSC and is responsible for setting the tone of Coding PSC as a service organization, continuously seeking to understand, meet and exceed practice expectations and needs.

What you will do in this role:

Responsible for CPSC central coding and medical record documentation improvement operations (as applicable), ensuring timeliness, accuracy, completeness, consistency, compliance and standards fulfillment as defined in practice expectations agreement

Contributes to the development of strategic direction of Parallon coding

Coaches and provides overall guidance to the CPSC coding team to resolve internal and external issues; help resolve dysfunctional behavior within functional area(s); discipline and counsel staff as necessary

Monitors CPSC coding performance according to productivity and quality standards as defined in job descriptions and practice expectations documents

Manages and motivates CPSC coding improvement operations (as applicable) staff

Assists in the development and management of strategy, specific goals, objectives, budgets and performance standards for the Parallon CPSC

Proactively manages, including corresponding communications and escalation paths, significant issues in HIM coding processes (e.g., coding backlogs, CPSC coding delays, abstracting backlogs, and data discrepancies), status of projects, barriers and successes

Identifies and implements process improvements to lower costs and improve service to PSG practices and various Parallon/PSG stakeholders/customers

Routinely meets with the Physician Service Group staff to review processes and collaborate on need coding related claim denials

Stays abreast of regulatory requirements and company compliance policies, ensuring compliance and timely staff education and training

Monitors overall trends (e.g., missing documentation, charge lag, coding quality) and communicates to PSG Leaderships teams and others as appropriate.

Provides leadership to coding management team regarding monthly trending analysis of CPSC coding performance including weekly and monthly reports

Oversees CPSC coding personnel, providing recommendations for hiring, promotion, salary adjustment and personnel action where appropriate

Responsible for overseeing performance review process for all direct and indirect reports

Responsible for ensuring employee work schedules sufficiently meet those requirements as established by the CPSC Leadership team

Oversees training and education for CPSC coding staff

Assists Parallon CPSC Education in Parallon initiatives such as the development of operational models and education programs

Assumes a lead role for innovation, knowledge sharing and leading practices identification within CPSC and among peer group

Promptly reports issues or trends to the appropriate member of the CPSC Leadership team, or other appropriate party

Stays abreast of regulatory requirements and company compliance policies, ensuring timely staff education

Reviews all official data quality standards, coding guidelines, Company policies and procedures, and clinical/medical resources to assure coding knowledge and skills remain current

Ensures that all Federal, State, and Local laws pertaining to patient privacy are adhered to

Practice and adhere to the “Code of Conduct” philosophy and “Mission and Value Statement”

Other duties as assigned

Requirements:

Bachelor’s Degree in Business or related field required. Degree requirement may be substituted by current enrollment in a Bachelor Degree program or equivalent work experience with CEO approval

Minimum five years’ healthcare management experience with three of these years in the related area for the position. Relevant education may substitute experience requirement with Executive approval

Coding certification through AHIMA or AAPC required

Parallon provides full-service revenue cycle management, or total patient account resolution, for HCA Healthcare. Our services include scheduling, registration, insurance verification, hospital billing, revenue integrity, collections, payment compliance, credentialing, health information management, customer service, payroll and physician billing. We also provide full-service revenue cycle management as well as targeted solutions, such as Medicaid Eligibility, for external clients across the country. Parallon has over 17,000 colleagues, and serves close to 1,000 hospitals and 3,000 physician practices, all making an impact on patients, providers and their communities.

HCA Healthcare has been recognized as one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies by the Ethisphere Institute more than ten times. In recent years, HCA Healthcare spent an estimated 3.7 billion in cost for the delivery of charitable care, uninsured discounts, and other uncompensated expenses.

“There is so much good to do in the world and so many different ways to do it.”- Dr. Thomas Frist, Sr.

HCA Healthcare Co-Founder

If you find this opportunity compelling, we encourage you to apply for our Central Coding Director opening. We promptly review all applications. Highly qualified candidates will be directly contacted by a member of our team. We are interviewing apply today!

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.