Coding Supervisor

St. Elizabeth Healthcare•Cincinnati, OH

About The Position

At St. Elizabeth Healthcare, every role supports our mission to provide comprehensive and compassionate care to the communities we serve. For more than 160 years, St. Elizabeth Healthcare has been a trusted provider of quality care across Kentucky, Indiana, and Ohio. We’re guided by our mission to improve the health of the communities we serve and by our values of excellence, integrity, compassion, and teamwork. Our associates are the heart of everything we do. This position is the first point of contact in the chain of command for the HIM Coding Team. They are responsible for answering coding questions and to assist with physician queries, maintaining workflow and upholding policies and procedures, onboarding and training new associates in coding and abstracting rules and guidelines, assist with denied or rebilled claims whether internal or external; assist with claim edits and will code as necessary. Demonstrate respect, dignity, kindness and empathy in each encounter with all patients, families, visitors and other employees regardless of cultural background.

Requirements

Associate or bachelor’s degree (or equivalent hospital coding experience)
CCS, CPC-H, RHIT, RHIA credentials
Prospective Payment Systems, ICD/CPT/HCPCS coding systems.
Use of personal computer, use of Windows applications.
Exceptional verbal/written communication skills.
Knowledge of encoding/abstracting/grouping/compliance software.
Patient customer service.
Minimum three years of experience in production coding

Responsibilities

Responsible for answering coding questions.
Researches coding questions based on thorough review of documentation and coding guidelines and official sources.
May also assist Coding Manager and Patient Financial Services with questions or denied claims.
Assist coders with physician query structure, assignment and follow-up.
Send queries as needed.
Perform routine query audits and provide feedback to coders and coding leadership.
Responsible for follow-up on and reinforcement of training with all Clinical Coding Specialists in inpatient/outpatient coding.
Assists in monitoring and reporting on new coder accuracy levels and productivity averages following their training period.
Provides feedback to associates
Codes as necessary to facilitate management of DNFB/CFB goals
May assist with clinical documentation improvement program.
Coordination of documentation, necessity of services and follow-up on CDI stop bills.
Assist HIM Compliance with coordination and presentation of coding continuing education.
Assist Corporate Coding Manager with external reviews, studies, audits of the coding area, case mix index studies, MS-DRG (APR-DRG), APC, CCI changes, TJC preparation, policy and procedure updates, reports, workflow management, etc.
Participate in interviewing CCS candidates.
Assist the Corp Coding Manager with hiring, re-training, promotion and termination decisions.
May assume some managerial responsibilities in the absence of the coding manager.
May assist with routine internal coding audits of all inpatient/outpatient coders for accuracy including providing feedback and education.
Assist with CDM and Billing Follow-up teams with edit resolution.
Performs other duties as assigned.