Advocate Aurora Health Hiring For Outpatient Coding Supervisor, Hospital And Home Health Coding at Oak Brook, IL 60523, United States Full Time

Job Description

OUTPATIENT CODING SUPERVISOR, HOSPITAL & HOME HEALTH CODING
ADVOCATE AURORA SHARED CODING SERVICES – Oak Brook, IL
Full-Time – 40 hours per week
Advocate Aurora Health is the 10th largest not-for-profit, integrated health system in the United States and a leading employer in the Midwest with more than 70,000 employees and the region’s largest employed medical staff and home health organization. A national leader in clinical innovation, health outcomes, consumer experience and value-based care, the system serves nearly 3 million patients annually in Illinois and Wisconsin across more than 500 sites of care. Advocate Aurora is engaged in hundreds of clinical trials and research studies, and is nationally recognized for its expertise in cardiology, neurosciences, oncology and pediatrics. The organization contributed $2 billion in charitable care and services to its communities in 2016.
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OUR PURPOSE: We Help People Live Well OUR VALUES:

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  Excellence: We are a top performing health system in all that we do and continually find new and better ways to improve.
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  Compassion: We unselfishly care for others.
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  Respect: We treat people in a way that value their unique needs and preferences.

Position Requirements:
Registered Health Information Technician (RHIT) with associate degree in Health Information Management from an accredited program.
5 years of leadership experience in integrated acute care hospital coding.
RHIT or RHIA required
CCS or CCS~P credential, preferred
Achieve satisfactory score on Advocate’s coding test.
Monitors daily work queues to ensure timely coding of outpatient accounts across multiple hospital sites.
Plan and implement strategies to achieve or exceeds the expected target DNFC goals. Makes real time adjustments to work assignment based on account acuity and volume
Serves as liaison between area of responsibility and other groups within Advocate Aurora Healthcare such as patient access, quality and denials management
Demonstrated leadership skills and abilities including organization, prioritization, project management, delegation, team building, customer service, and conflict resolution.
Analytical skills for abstracting of clinical and nonclinical data
Ability to interpret regulatory and payor rules and directives concerning coding
Computer experience.
Ability to work successfully and independently in a remote, home environment.
The ability to maintain an ergonomic workstation in a remote work environment while protecting patient confidentiality and maintaining Advocate owned computer hardware and software.
Must be able to manage computer usage issues using protocols for resolution.
Must be able to work independently, maintaining productivity and quality standards.
Able to travel to other hospital sites, corporate settings and seminar locations.
Able to work under stressful conditions while maintaining
professionalism and manage multiple completing priorities
Work will often require flexibility and meeting tight deadlines
Ability to make independent decisions in problem solving
Able to work well on a team
Ability to achieve CEUs and maintain coding certification

Purpose:
The Outpatient Coding Production Supervisory position oversees the day to day operational workflow and processes for hospital and home health coding. This position oversees a team of coders including managing work queues, prioritizng accounts to be coded, implementing strategies and making real-time adjustments based on account acuity and volume. Handles human resources responsibilities for staff including coaching and evaluations. This positions also manages software applications and hardware requirements for the coding staff. Serves as an expert resource for hospital related health information outpatient coding and Ambulatory Patient Categories. Identifies opportunities to improve coding and data abstracting accuracy and practices. Establishes work asignments and training of coding staff. Acts as a liason between coding and other entities of the organization such as the quality team, patient accounts and Information Services.

Accountabilities:
Performs human resources responsibilities for staff, which include interviewing and selection of new employees, coaching, promotions, staff development, counseling, performance evaluations, compensation changes, resolution of employee concerns, corrective actions, terminations, and overall employee morale. Ensures goals are met by clearly communicating job expectations, and monitoring and assessing productivity and quality results.

Responsible for understanding and adhering to the Advocate Aurora Health Care Code of Ethical Conduct and for ensuring that personal actgions, and the actions of employees supervises, comply with the policies, regulations and laws applicable to Advocate Aurora business.
Maintains continuing education credits and credentials by keeping abreast of current knowledge trends, legislative issues and/or technology in Health Information Management through internal and external seminars