Vice President Medical Coding Automation

This position is incentive eligible.

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 Vice President Medical Coding Automation today with HCA Healthcare.

Benefits

HCA Healthcare 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.

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Job Summary and Qualifications

The Vice President, Medical Coding Automation & Documentation Technology Strategy is a senior executive leader responsible for identifying, defining, evaluating, and executing the enterprise strategy for medical coding automation and related documentation improvement technologies across hospital (facility) and physician (professional fee) services. Reporting to the HIMCAB CEO, this role drives the identification, selection, piloting, governance, and operationalization of advanced technologies, including AI-enabled autonomous coding and documentation improvement solutions to improve coding accuracy, efficiency, compliance, scalability, and financial performance.

This role partners closely with the executing coding leadership team, Clinical Documentation Integrity (CDI), IT, Compliance, CSG, DT&I and Revenue Cycle leadership to ensure solutions are strategically aligned, operationally effective, and sustainably deployed. The VP serves as a key innovation leader, translating emerging technology into measurable operational outcomes while ensuring adherence to regulatory and compliance standards.

What you will do in this role:

• Define and lead the enterprise vision, strategy, and multi-year roadmap for medical coding automation across hospital and professional fee services.
• Establish standards, governance, and best practices for evaluating, piloting, and scaling coding automation and documentation technologies.
• Serve as executive sponsor for innovation initiatives related to AI-enabled coding, documentation quality, and workflow optimization.
• Lead industry research, market scanning, and vendor evaluations for coding automation, and co-lead documentation improvement technologies.
• Define business requirements, success criteria, and ROI frameworks for technology investment decisions.
• Partner with IT, Compliance, DT&I, and Legal teams to ensure solutions meet enterprise, regulatory, and data governance standards.
• Oversee structured pilots for new coding and documentation technologies, including success metrics, risk management, and change management plans.
• Lead cross-functional teams to operationalize approved solutions, ensuring seamless integration into HIM, coding, CDI, and revenue cycle workflows.
• Ensure consistent deployment standards and scalability across facilities, physician practices, and shared services environments.
• Own accountability for technology performance post-implementation, including productivity gains, accuracy, quality, compliance, and financial impact.
• Develop reporting and analytics to measure outcomes, adoption, and continuous improvement opportunities.
• Drive optimization efforts to maximize value realization over the lifecycle of deployed technologies.
• Act as a strategic liaison between coding operations, clinical stakeholders, IT, compliance, and executive leadership.
• Establish and manage strategic vendor partnerships, including contract strategy, performance governance, and roadmap alignment.
• Influence and align physician, operational, and executive stakeholders to ensure successful adoption and sustained engagement.

What qualifications you will need:

• Bachelor’s degree required (or significant related work experience), in areas like HIM or Informatics. Master’s degree preferred.
• Minimum 7 years acute care hospital coding experience required, coding quality experience preferred.
• Minimum 10 years executive management/leadership and/or consulting experience required, preferably in a hospital related healthcare setting.
• Experience with coding automation technologies preferred.
• RHIA, RHIT and/or CCS 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 Vice President Medical Coding Automation 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. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.