[Hiring] Inpatient Coding Quality Manager @Huron

Role Description

The US Inpatient Coding Quality Manager is responsible for the day-to-day operations and oversight of coding processes to ensure timely, accurate, and compliant assignment of diagnosis and procedure codes for inpatient (IPDRG) services. This leader ensures adherence to regulatory guidelines and payer requirements and supports optimal reimbursement through quality coding practices.

Qualifications

• Associate or Bachelor’s degree in Health Information Management, Healthcare Administration, or related field.
• 5+ years of experience in inpatient (IPDRG) coding; 2+ years in a coding leadership role.
• Required: Active and up to date CCS AHIMA coding certification.
• Required Experience with Epic, 3M Encoder, or other leading EHR/coding systems.
• Previous experience managing remote coding teams.
• Strong knowledge of DRG assignment, HCCs, NCCI edits, and medical necessity concepts.
• Current permanent U.S. Work Authorization required.
• Experience working with data from various sources.
• Strong communication skills and desire to work as part of a team in a partnership role.
• Working with multiple clients at one time.

Requirements

• Supervise and support coding quality auditing staff (inpatient (IPDRG)) including hiring, onboarding, scheduling, and performance management.
• Monitor coding quality auditing staff productivity, accuracy, and turnaround time for coding completion.
• Ensure timely resolution of coding-related edits and billing holds.
• Conduct coding audits and accuracy reviews, ensuring compliance with ICD-10 and applicable CMS/OIG regulations.
• Address coding-related denials and partner with billing and A/R teams to identify root causes.
• Stay current with regulatory and coding updates and disseminate guidance to staff.
• Ensure coding quality auditing policies & procedures are current and reflect the most compliant/accepted practices for medical coding.
• Work closely with HIM, Revenue Integrity, CDI, Billing, and Clinical departments to ensure clean claim generation.
• Coordinate with IT on encoder, EHR, and CAC system optimization.
• Collaborate with the Huron coding global teams.
• Is client facing and ensures accurate performance reporting to client.
• Ensure consistent client coding calibration completion.
• Provide regular coder education on coding updates, documentation changes, and audit findings.
• Mentor coding quality auditor leads and/or senior coding quality auditors to support succession planning and career development.
• Work closely with physicians, nurses, and other healthcare professionals to ensure timely and accurate documentation that reflects the care provided to patients. Obtain clarification as appropriate.

Benefits

• The estimated salary range for this job is $90,000- $130,000.
• This job is also eligible to participate in Huron’s annual incentive compensation program, which reflects Huron’s pay for performance philosophy.
• Huron’s benefit plans include medical, dental and vision coverage and other wellness programs.

Company Description

Huron helps its clients drive growth, enhance performance and sustain leadership in the markets they serve. We help healthcare organizations build innovation capabilities and accelerate key growth initiatives, enabling organizations to own the future, instead of being disrupted by it. Together, we empower clients to create sustainable growth, optimize internal processes and deliver better consumer outcomes.

Health systems, hospitals and medical clinics are under immense pressure to improve clinical outcomes and reduce the cost of providing patient care. Investing in new partnerships, clinical services and technology is not enough to create meaningful and substantive change. To succeed long-term, healthcare organizations must empower leaders, clinicians, employees, affiliates and communities to build cultures that foster innovation to achieve the best outcomes for patients.

Joining the Huron team means you’ll help our clients evolve and adapt to the rapidly changing healthcare environment and optimize existing business operations, improve clinical outcomes, create a more consumer-centric healthcare experience, and drive physician, patient and employee engagement across the enterprise.