[Hiring] Hospital Outpatient Coding Educator @Franciscan Alliance, Inc.

Role Description

The Hospital Outpatient Coding Educator is a fully remote coding position responsible for developing training content and materials and conducting outpatient coding training for the hospital outpatient coding staff. This position ensures training practices are standardized and result in consistent coding outcomes, as well as provides input regarding the content of policies and procedures.

• Develops and maintains all corporate coding education, training policies and procedures, and coding reference materials.
• Leads training sessions and assesses coder comprehension of covered materials.
• Makes recommendations for the development of coding resources and policy and procedure development.
• Assists corporate coding leadership with training and/or development of a performance improvement track for coding coworkers in the corrective action process related to quality or productivity performance.
• Coordinates with Coding Auditors to prepare education material based on audit results.
• Develops and maintains a consistent coding operations orientation program and reports the coders' progress to coding leadership throughout the orientation and training processes.
• Acts as a nosologist, analyzing and interpreting disease and procedure classifications and terminologies for the accurate translation of healthcare data.
• Maintains expert knowledge of Franciscan Alliance coding software tools.
• Assists with development and maintenance of software system workflow for standardization and maximum efficiency.
• Oversees system testing with regards to any published software updates or software functionality changes.

Qualifications

• High School Diploma/GED with 5 years of Franciscan coding experience - Required
• Associate's Degree - Required
• Bachelor's Degree - Preferred
• Surgery Coding Experience - Required
• 5 Years Franciscan outpatient coding with CCS, CCS-P, CPC - Required
• 5 Years Outpatient Coding Experience with RHIT/RHIA - Required
• 3 Years Coding Manager or Trainer/Auditor - Preferred
• CCS, Certified Coding Specialist from American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) - Required
• CPC, Certified Professional Coder from the American Academy of Professional Coders (AAPC) - Required
• CCS-P, Certified Coding Specialist - Physician from AHIMA - Required
• RHIT, Registered Health Information Technician from AHIMA - Preferred
• RHIA, Registered Health Information Administrator from AHIMA - Preferred
• Proficient in Excel, Word and PowerPoint - Required

Requirements

• Travel is required: Never or Rarely
• Job Range: Coding Educator - Hospital Outpatient/Professional $51,001.60 - $75,868.00
• Incentive: Not Applicable

Benefits

Franciscan provides eligible employees with comprehensive benefit offerings. Find an overview on the benefit section of our career site, jobs.franciscanhealth.org.