Director of Professional Coding Operations

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🗽 New York – Remote

🗽 New York – Remote

💵 $116.8k - $186.9k / year

⏰ Full Time

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Albany Medical Center

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5001 - 10000 employees

Albany Medical Center, northeastern New York’s only academic medical center, is one of the Capital Region’s largest private employers with more than 9,000 employees. Albany Medical Center provides the highest level of patient care across disciplines, while receiving regional, national, and international recognition for high standards in patient care, education, and biomedical research.

📋 Description

• Create and manage a strong coding culture; ensures the recruitment, training, and retention of motivated coding specialists • Designs, establishes and maintains an organizational structure and staffing model to accomplish AMHS goals and objectives in an effective manner • Develops, implements and manages efficient and effective operational policies, processes and best practices with coding functions of the revenue cycle across AMHS • Provides vision, leadership, and operational oversight for standardization across AMHS professional coding operations • Monitors data to assure AMHS professional coding departmental KPIs are being met • Operates with a mindset of continual process improvement, adjusting KPIs as needed • Promotes and coordinates a continuous learning environment, employee engagement and motivation, employee retention and recruitment, skill development, and productivity among staff and management • Analyzes and establishes plans to ensure that AMHS professional coding services are progressive and effective; work with other hospital and system service departments to promote consistency in processes

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in health information management or related field - required • Master's Degree in health information management or related field - preferred • 10+ years’ experience in medical coding using ICD, CPT and evaluation and management coding - required • Five+ years' experience in a progressive management capacity - required • Excellent oral and written communication skills • Excellent presentation, planning and organizational skills • A problem solver with an understanding of systems design, procedure development and team building skills • Demonstrated ability to establish and maintain effective relationships with the staff and customers • Ability to communicate with professional healthcare providers • Demonstrates expertise in coding quality • Demonstrates a clear understanding of the revenue cycle in its entirety • Ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks in a high-growth, fast paced environment • RHIT - Registered Health Information Technician Upon Hire, or RHIA - Registered Health Information Administrator with CCS-Certified Coding Specialist Upon Hire or Certified Coder-AHIMA or AAPC CPC- Certified Professional Coder Upon Hire - required

🏖️ Benefits

• Excellent health care coverage with no copay at Albany Medical Center providers • A wide array of services and programs to support emotional, physical, and mental wellbeing