Central Coding Director

This position is incentive eligible.

Do you want to join an organization that invests in you as a Central Coding Director? At Parallon, you come first. HCA Healthcare has committed up to $300 million in programs to support our incredible team members over the course of three years.

Job Summary and Qualifications

As a work from home Central Coding Director, you will be 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.

Requirements:

• 5+ years of healthcare management experience with three of these years in the related area for the position required
• Coding certification AHIMA or AAPC required
• Bachelor’s Degree in Business or related field required. Degree requirement may be substituted by current enrollment in a Bachelor Degree program or extensive equivalent work experience

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 benefits for medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, behavioral health and telemedicine services
• Wellbeing support, including free counseling and referral services
• Time away from work programs for paid time off, paid family leave, long- and short-term disability coverage and leaves of absence
• Savings and retirement resources, including a 401(k) Plan with a 100% match on 3% to 9% of pay (based on years of service), Employee Stock Purchase Plan, flexible spending accounts, preferred banking partnerships, retirement readiness tools, rollover support and financial wellbeing counseling
• Education support through tuition assistance, student loan assistance, certification support, dependent scholarships and a partnership with Galen College of Nursing
• Additional benefits for fertility and family building, adoption assistance, life insurance, supplemental health protection plans, auto and home insurance, legal counseling, identity theft protection and consumer discounts

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Note: Eligibility for benefits may vary by location.

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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.

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HCA Healthcare Co-Founder

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