UT Southwestern Medical Center · 1 day ago
Director of Coding - Coding Quality and Integrity
Dallas, TX
Full-time
Onsite
Director/Executive
10+ years expUT Southwestern Medical Center is a world-renowned medical and research center committed to excellence and innovation. The Director of Coding will provide strategic leadership and operational oversight for hospital coding functions, ensuring compliance, accuracy, and efficiency while collaborating with various teams to drive innovation and continuous improvement.
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Responsibilities
Directs, plans, organizes, monitors, and evaluates the work of the coding teams to ensure effective and efficient operations and compliance with established standards, rules, and regulations
With the involvement of the coding team leadership develops, implements, and assesses long-range and short-term goals; conducts studies and analyzes reports and makes recommendations concerning staffing, organization, budget and workflow
Direct, plan, and evaluate coding operations, including the integration of Epic EHR workflows and AI-assisted coding tools, ensuring accuracy, productivity, and regulatory compliance
Maintains insight and understanding of future trends and regulations by cultivation of professional relationships with state and national organizations
Takes the initiative to make decisions regarding practices and policies and is an advocate for improvement
Provides direction for all coding activities, audits, education, productivity standards, and quality standards to improve unbilled targets and data quality
Together with the UTSW HIM Director and Information Resources, assures best practice software design and functionality for coding practices
Ongoing responsibility to assure orientation and training programs are in place while ensuring ongoing competence of staff is documented
Ongoing accountability for regulatory compliance, continuous assessment, improvement, and coordination of coding team services
Ongoing accountability for management of various resources to maintain maximum efficiency and meet performance objectives
Provide strategic leadership and mentorship to coding teams, fostering a culture of excellence, compliance, and continuous learning
Fosters open communication and shares plans with employees as well elevating employee issues and concerns to executive leadership as needed
Demonstrates responsible and effective leadership for the overarching welfare of the coding team and acts as a mentor
Monitors and evaluates subordinate coding team management staff according to organizational guidelines
Maintains departmental statistics on work volume, productivity, accuracy, and data quality
Analyze coding and billing data using Epic analytics tools to identify trends, optimize revenue, and drive process improvement
Demonstrates continuous performance improvement in targeted areas of responsibility in alignments with the overall annual performance improvement targets
Meets or exceeds financial goals and objectives of the department
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's Degree in Health Information Management or related field
10 years of progressive coding experience, including 3+ years in management
Demonstrated experience with Epic EHR (Resolute, Slicer Dicer, etc.) and AI-assisted coding platforms
Preferred
(RHIA) REGD HEALTH INFO ADMINIST
(RHIT) REGD HEALTH INFO TECHNOLO
(CCS) CERT CODING SPECIALIST
Benefits
PPO medical plan, available day one at no cost for full-time employee-only coverage
100% coverage for preventive healthcare-no copay
Paid Time Off, available day one
Retirement Programs through the Teacher Retirement System of Texas (TRS)
Paid Parental Leave Benefit
Wellness programs
Tuition Reimbursement
Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) Qualified Employer
Company
UT Southwestern Medical Center
UT Southwestern Medical Center offers clinical care, education, and scientific research.
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$22MKey Investors
The Dallas FoundationPatient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute
2023-06-20Grant
2023-04-20Grant· $4M
2023-03-28Grant· $18M
Leadership Team
Chris Rubio
Interim Chief Executive Officer, Clements University Hospital
Dennis Pfeifer
AVP & CTO University Health System
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