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El Camino Hospital
Mountain View, CA
Source: El Camino Hospital careers · View original posting
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El Camino Health is committed to hiring, retaining and growing the best and brightest professionals who will carry our mission and vision forward. We are proud of our reputation in the community: One built on compassion, innovation, collaboration and delivering high-quality care. Come join the team that makes this happen.
Applicants MUST apply for position(s) by submitting a separate application for each individual job posting number they are interested in being considered for.
FTE
1
Scheduled Bi-Weekly Hours
80
Work Shift
Day: 8 hours
Job Description
The HIM PB Coding Manager is responsible for day-to-day management, oversight, and quality assurance of professional billing coding operations, providing leadership and management of the HIM Professional auditors and coders reviewing physician base charging/billing, claim edits, payer appeals, with accurate, compliant, and timely coding of professional services according to Official Coding and regulatory guidelines and internal standards.
Provide physician education with extensive knowledge in ICD-10-CM diagnosis, CPT procedural assignment, and HCPCS level II coding systems for El Camino Health Medical Network. The PB coding manager educates providers in the clinic base and hospital setting to ensure documentation meets the reporting requirements to support medical necessity in adherence with payer requirements with billed charges.
The PB coding manager leads a team of professional coders and collaborates closely with the Revenue Cycle professional billing teams ensuring providers charging/billing are compliant in adherence with Official Coding Guidelines, American Medical Association CPT procedural assignments and Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System (HCPCS) requirements. The PB coding manager maintains providers monthly audits and reports to the ECHMN compliance committee.
HIM Professional Billing Coding Manager’s core duties:
Primary lead educator with sessions onsite and in electronic format for new and existing providers/clinicians.
Oversee the professional coding of evaluation & management (E/M), surgical, and diagnostic services.
Ensure accurate CPT, HCPCS, and ICD-10-CM code assignment by physicians for all PB claims.
Monitor coding compliance with CMS, OIG, payer-specific guidelines, and organizational policy.
Monitors un-billed, claim edit, and denial claim reviews ensuring revenue metrics do not exceed claims submissions.
Coordinates monthly external professional audits with third-party vendors in collaboration with Compliance and the HIM Coding manager. Extracts and uploads audited data from third-party vendors and coordinate other team members’ assignments in maintaining all monthly audits are completed in a timely manner.
Work closely with Revenue Integrity and Billing to streamline processes and resolve coding/billing issues.
Maintain communication with leadership regarding trends, backlogs, and regulatory changes.
Leads educational sessions with the coding team by conducting research on various regulatory sites and coding guidelines in creating educational content for both clinicians and coding team members in reducing claim and payer denials providers continuous education strategies.
Performs reviews of payer denials and analyze/track coding denials and documentation deficiency trends in providing monthly provider/clinician education.
Supervise, coach, and evaluate a team of professional coders and perform educational training of new and existing coding staff.
Conducts internal and external auditing of coding staff team members by providing educational monthly reporting to reduce claim denials for ECHMN medical documentation by updating ECH Professional Coding Guidelines and creation of monthly educational newsletters to the El Camino Health Medical Network
Coordinates with the facility HIM coding manager with professional surgical and obstetrical coding of claims
Ensure department goals and KPIs (e.g., coding reviews/release of provider’s charges turnaround times, and quality scores) are met.
Compensation
$63.73 - $95.59 USD Hour
The Physical Requirements and Working Conditions of this job are available. El Camino Health will provide reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with a disability if that will allow them to perform the essential functions of a job unless doing so creates an undue hardship for the hospital, or causes a direct threat to these individuals or others in the workplace which cannot be eliminated by reasonable accommodation.
Sedentary Work - Duties performed mostly while sitting; walking and standing at times. Occasionally lift or carry up to 10 lbs. Uses hands and fingers. - (Physical Requirements-United States of America)
In addition to state and federal law, El Camino Health also follows all applicable fair and equitable employment policies from the County of Santa Clara.
El Camino Health seeks and values a diverse workforce. The organization is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions on the basis of qualifications and competencies. El Camino Health prohibits discrimination in employment based on race, ancestry, national origin, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, disability, marital status, age, medical condition or any other status protected by law.
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