Healthcare Consulting Manager - Inpatient Medical Coding

Huron • Chicago, IL

1d • Onsite

About The Position

Huron helps its clients drive growth, enhance performance and sustain leadership in the markets they serve by building innovation capabilities and accelerating key growth initiatives. The company empowers healthcare organizations to create sustainable growth, optimize internal processes, and deliver better consumer outcomes, helping them evolve and adapt to the rapidly changing healthcare environment. Managers at Huron are pivotal in driving success by leveraging their expertise to manage projects and lead teams, forging lasting client partnerships to solve business challenges and align results with client goals. They also mentor junior staff, fostering a culture of respect, unity, and personal achievement, and benefit from career growth opportunities and personalized professional development.

Requirements

• Bachelors’ degree and RHIT (or RHIA) and CCS certifications required
• Minimum of 5 years of inpatient coding experience across all specialties in an acute care hospital
• Minimum 1 year of experience managing major projects for large, complex healthcare organizations with multiple stakeholders
• Proficient in ICD-10-CM/PCS and both MS-DRG and APR-DRG assignment
• Maintains 95%+ DRG assignment accuracy
• Experienced with Epic and Cerner EHR systems
• Skilled in coding quality audits and inpatient coding education
• Strong leadership and management skills aligning to Huron’s core values and competencies
• The ability to travel based on client, enterprise, or project needs is an essential function of this role. While travel requirements may vary based on business need, the current average travel in the Healthcare practice is less than 50%, annually
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office (Word, PowerPoint, Excel)
• US Work Authorization required

Nice To Haves

• Experience in a matrixed organization or cross-functional team environment
• CCDS/CDIP certification

Responsibilities

• Manage complex multi-workstream projects and oversee junior team members
• Analyze data to implement performance improvement and organizational change
• Collaborate with team members and clients to align with business objectives
• Communicate effectively with project teams and stakeholders
• Lead and develop team members through training, supervision, and feedback

Benefits

• competitive compensation and benefits package
• medical coverage
• dental coverage
• vision coverage
• 401(k) plan with a generous employer match
• employee stock purchase plan
• generous Paid Time Off policy
• paid parental leave
• adoption assistance
• Wellness Program supports employee total well-being by providing free annual health screenings and coaching, bank at work, and on-site workshops, as well as ongoing programs recognizing major events in the lives of our employees throughout the year

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager