Team Leader - Medical Coding

Huron; Bengaluru; Presencial; INR 1.200.000 - 1.800.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Huron in Bangalore, India, seeks a Team Leader for Medical Coding to manage a team of coders, drive production goals and ensure coding quality. The role requires overseeing training, feedback, and performance metrics to optimize accuracy and efficiency.

The ideal candidate will have 6+ years in coding with at least 1 year in a leadership role, and hold CPC or CCS certification. This is an on-site position based in Bengaluru with flexible shifts.

Formación

• 6+ years of industry experience, with at least 1 year in leading a group of coders.
• TL on papers with exposure to multispecialty coding concepts.
• CPC – Certified Coding Professional or CCS - Certified Coding Specialist.

Responsabilidades

• Monitors performance using key metrics to achieve 95% coding quality accuracy.
• Escalates production/QA concerns to Manager and coordinates with Training teams.
• Reviews production and quality reports and shares feedback with the team.
• Provides training and coaching to improve quality and professionalism.
• Maintains attendance records and timesheets for coders.
• Mentors staff to maximize performance and potential.
• Focuses on continuous improvement to arrest revenue leakage while complying with standards.

Conocimientos

Leadership

Team management

Communication

Problem solving

Training & coaching

Educación

Graduate or Post Graduate in Life Science, Pharmacy, Physiotherapy, Zoology, Microbiology

Descripción del empleo

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.

Join our team as the expert you are now and create your future.

TITLE: Team Leader – Medical Coding

REPORTS TO: Team Manager

DEPARTMENT: Huron Healthcare RCM Group

WORK HOURS: 5 days week and flexible to work in different shifts

LOCATION: Bangalore, India.

SUMMARY:

Responsible for the day-to-day production and quality functions of a team of coders specializing in meeting client production goals and coding accuracy goals. Plans, directs, supervises and evaluates feedback workflows and coordinates activities across all coding staff assigned to the team.

Excellent communication skills, attention to detail, and strong technical and problem solving skills are essential aspects of this role.

JOB DETAILS:

Monitors performance of all coding staff using key metrics including, but not limited to daily coding volume, assignments worked, client project deadlines and coding accuracy performance to achieve and maintain a 95% coding quality accuracy rate.

Escalate Production and QA concerns or roadblocks to the Manager for involvement as needed. Work closely with the Training teams members to communicate progress across the Team to the Manager.

Reviews both production and quality accuracy reporting and/or system reports on progress for all assigned projects and share feedback

Motivates team members through effective training and coaching to improve quality and professionalism on work assignments. Conducts monthly team meetings and annual performance evaluations with team members.

Monitors and maintains team attendance records and time sheet for coders.

Completes any special projects, such as full coding audit, and other duties as assigned in a timely manner.

Mentors staff to maximize performance and potential.

Assist in maintaining and monitoring team member job satisfaction and morale.

Demonstrated domain expertise in quality process related to meeting production schedules and the coding of medical diagnoses and treatment practices

Deep understanding of both the production and quality assurance coding process and guidelines.

Analytical and problem solving skills, and the ability to use data to identify patterns and trends.

Experience providing training, coaching, and development to team members, as well as providing regular feedback regarding work performance

Must possess strong communication skills to convey information across multiple team members with varying skill sets.

Maintains a high degree of professional and ethical standards

Focuses on continuous improvement by working on projects that enable customers to arrest revenue leakage while complying with the standards.

Focuses on updating coding skills and knowledge by participating in coding team meetings and educational conferences

Extensive knowledge of coding principles and guidelines.

Extensive knowledge of hospital/technical and professional services reimbursement systems.

Extensive knowledge of federal, state, and payer-specific regulations and policies pertaining to documentation, coding, and billing for professional and technical services.

Strong managerial, leadership, and interpersonal skills.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Graduate or Post Graduate in Life Science, Pharmacy, Physiotherapy, Zoology, Microbiology discipline

• 6+ years of industry experience of which 1 year in leading a group of coders.

• Must be TL on papers have exposure to Multispecialty coding concepts.

• CPC – Certified Coding Professional or

• CCS - Certified Coding Specialist

Position Level

Associate

Country

India