HIM Market Assistant Director - HCA Healthcare
Low Moor, VA 24457
About the Job
Description
This position is incentive eligible.Introduction
Last year our HCA Healthcare colleagues invested over 156,000 hours volunteering in our communities. As an HIM Market Assistant Director with LewisGale Medical Center, you can be a part of an organization that is devoted to giving back!
Benefits
LewisGale Medical Center 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.
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Note: Eligibility for benefits may vary by location.
Would you like to unlock your potential with a leading healthcare provider dedicated to the growth and development of our colleagues? Join the LewisGale Medical Center family! We will give you the tools and resources you need to succeed in our organization. We are looking for an enthusiastic HIM Market Assistant Director to help us reach our goals. Unlock your potential!
Job Summary and Qualifications
As the facility Health Information Management (HIM) Assistant Director, you will assist the FHIMD with HIM operational planning, service level agreements, budgets, workflow processes, and internal controls. You actively participate in the facility-based unbilled management process and resolution of issues contributing to unbilled accounts. With assistance from the Regional HIM Director,you will provide FHIMD coverage when the FHIMD position is vacant.
In this role, you will:
- Travel regularly among the four hospitals in the LewisGale network: LewisGale Medical Center, LewisGale Montgomery, LewisGale Allegheny, and LewisGale Pulaski.
- Assist the FHIMD with leading and managing facility based HIM operations and staff including, but not limited to, record pick up and reconciliation, the release of information request processing, hardcopy retrieval of medical records, processing of birth certificate/paternity, document imaging (prepping, scanning and indexing), physician chart completion and unbilled activities. At times may assist in performing these functions.
- Assist withthe management of the hospital based HIM staff, including hiring, coaching, disciplining and counseling staff, and productivity and quality monitoring.
- Participate in communication and customer service efforts with HIM personnel, facility departments, facility department and unit leadership, facility leadership and medical staff.
- Assist with ensuring all applicable EHR and Computer Assisted Coding (e.g., HPF, MPF, Cerner, Epic, MEDITECH, 3M 360 Encompass) 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) are worked according to established workflow policies and guidelines.
- Work collaboratively withMedical Staff and Facility Leadership tocomply with standards and guidelines enforced through the hospital’s Medical Staff Bylaws/Rules and Regulations (e.g., suspension of privileges) and assists with the facilitation and execution of physician notification processes regardingmedical record documentation deficiency, delinquency and physician suspension.
- Provide, and/or assist the HIM staff in providing, EHR/CAC record completion and medical record viewing training and education to medical staff members and to other clinical and ancillarypersonnel
- Secondary facility contact for external agencies requiring on‐site viewing of medical records.
- Proactively manage, including corresponding communications and escalation paths, significant issues in HIM operations(e.g., backlogs, turnover),status of projects, barriers andsuccesses.
- In conjunction with the FHIMD, serves as a liaison between HIM, coding and/or abstraction and Facility Administration, Facility Department Leadership, and Medical Staff Leadership, building and maintaining strategic working relationships with thefacility anddepartment leadership (working through specific issues, Assistant Facility HIM Director committeemeetings, monthly updates, etc.).
- Active participant in preparing for or assistingwith external agency (e.g., The Joint Commission, Board of Health)reviews of the facility.
- Assist the FHIMD in the development of strategy, specific goals, objectives, budgets, and performance standardsrelative to the facility HIM operations.
What qualifications you will need:
- 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; two or more years is strongly preferred
- A minimum of one year healthcaremanagement experience is preferred
- RHIAor RHIT strongly preferred
"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
Be a part of an organization that invests in you! We are reviewing applications for our HIM Market Assistant Director opening. Qualified candidates will be contacted for interviews. Submit your application and help us raise the bar in patient care!
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.