Director of Coding - HCA Healthcare

Description

Introduction

Are you passionate about the patient experience? At HCA Healthcare, we are committed to caring for patients with purpose and integrity. We care like family! Jump-start your career as a(an) Director of Coding today with Parallon.

Benefits

Parallon, 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.

Come join our team as a(an) Director of Coding. We care for our community! Just last year, HCA Healthcare and our colleagues donated $13.8 million dollars to charitable organizations. Apply Today!

Job Summary and Qualifications

The Director (Operations and Coding) has a key role in the planning, development, implementation and maintenance of the health information management (HIM) services. The Director initiates, designs, leads, executes, and manages projects associated with HIM related and other company-wide initiatives. They will oversee the development of process improvements and provide oversight to project execution activities that increase performance of the HIM organization. The Director will provide consultative support to the HSCs. This position requires the ability to quickly synthesize multiple issues and adapt to constantly shifting priorities.

What you will do in this role:

• Develops strategy, plans, and leads initiatives that impacts the business models (e.g., shared services initiatives) and align with company vision/overall goals for health information, data management and informatics.
• Contributes to the strategic business plan for Parallon HIM.
• Provides leadership and guidance to the HSCs, and develops and maintains effective strategic relationships with the HSC/SSC COOs, Assistant COOs, Directors, and Managersto ensure HSC and overall HIM operational and compliance excellence, including refinement of the HIM shared services strategy and the operational model.
• Maintains strategic and tactical working relationships, and actively shares and collaborates with other corporate departments and key stakeholders (e.g., Clinical Services Group, Compliance (Parallon & REGS), Information Protection, Internal Audit, Clinical Documentation Improvement (CDI), Revenue Cycle Departments, Human Resources, Management Engineering, Parallon and HCA IT&S, Education, Legal, and Project Management) to drive goals and desired outcomes.
• Influence HSC leadership and solicit buy-in and support for planned initiatives to foster HSC operational accountability.
• Leads the team in measuring, monitoring, and optimizing HSC performance.
• Oversees the development, execution and maintenance of projects, tools, education (e.g., regulatory interpretations, benchmarking, productivity, forecasting, scheduling, job descriptions, policies and procedures, performance indicators, action plans, communications, HIM system and workflow technology enhancements/improvements, workflow diagrams, etc.) that are designed to maximize productivity and operational effectiveness. This can be done both independently or through the organizing and leading multiple multi-disciplinary teams.
• Provides subject matter expertise, strategy guidance and leads the team in intra and inter departmental initiatives (e.g., data abstraction, revenue cycle, case management, clinical documentation improvement, EHR, EMPI, Clinical Decision Support, document imaging, computer assisted coding, ICD-10 coding, transcription, speech recognition, NLP, data standards, MPI, ROI, analysis, unbilled management/AR, data requests, record retention/destruction, HIPAA Privacy, electronic information management).
• Leads the HIM team, provides subject matter expertise, and facilitates activities with IT&S in the identification and development and maintenance of new services, platforms and projects within the business intelligence (BI) environments.
• Oversees the Senior Managers as they conduct routine leadership calls and/or meetings to provide subject matter expertise, share best practices, revise policies and procedures, follow-up on action plans and identified opportunities and modify operational processes/workflows.
• Identifies opportunities and promotes the adherence to operational standardization and uniformity of processes across the enterprise.
• Utilizes critical thinking skills to analyze data and reports to formulate conclusions and develop improvement strategies.
• Leads and manages the evaluation, selection, and maintenance of vendor relationships for health information management coding operations products/services.
• Assists in the budget process through data collection, correlation, and data analysis.
• Participates in the execution of the Parallon HIM Talent Management Plan (i.e., sourcing, recruitment, selection, retention, coaching, motivation, and timely evaluation of staff).
• Responsible for independent problem solving, risk mitigation and contingency plans.
• Ensures that the Parallon HIM Team actively engages in continuous improvement to enhance the quality of products and services, performance, and corporate contribution.

What qualifications you will need:

• Bachelor’s degree required, ideally in areas like HIM, Business Administration, IT or Organizational/Change Management. 10 Years multi-facility and/or Vendor HIM operations experience and 7 years management/leadership may be substituted for degree requirement.
• Minimum 7 years multi-facility and/or Vendor HIM operations experience strongly preferred.
• Minimum 5 years management/leadership experience required.
• Consulting or proven work experience in areas of process reengineering, shared services, and project management strongly preferred.
• RHIA or RHIT 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.

"The great hospitals will always put the patient and the patient's family first, and the really great institutions will provide care with warmth, compassion, and dignity for the individual."- Dr. Thomas Frist, Sr.
HCA Healthcare Co-Founder

If you are looking for an opportunity that provides satisfaction and personal growth, we encourage you to apply for our Director of Coding opening. We promptly review all applications. Highly qualified candidates will be contacted for interviews. Unlock the possibilities and 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.