Coding Integrity Specialist

Gundersen Health System; Minnesota; On-site; USD 52,000 - 56,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare benefits

Retirement benefits

Independent work

Ongoing education

Job summary

Gundersen Health System, in partnership with Emplify Health, is seeking a Coding Integrity Specialist to ensure accurate and compliant coding across our organization. The role emphasizes auditing, education, and collaboration with coding, clinical, and revenue cycle teams to drive quality improvements.

You will conduct audits, provide feedback, monitor practices, and lead multiple projects while working with system-wide teams in a mission-driven health network.

Qualifications

• 5-7 years of healthcare coding experience (hospital or multi-specialty clinic setting).
• RHIA, RHIT, CCS, CCS-P, CPC, or CCA certification preferred.

Responsibilities

• Conduct coding audits to ensure compliance with coding guidelines, payer requirements, and regulatory standards.
• Provide education and feedback to coding staff and leadership based on audit findings.
• Monitor documentation and coding practices to identify improvement opportunities for providers and coders.
• Collaborate with Revenue Cycle, Coding leadership, and Clinical Documentation teams on process improvements and regulatory updates.
• Manage multiple audit projects, reporting, and quality improvement initiatives.

Skills

Healthcare coding

Auditing

Compliance

Education

Health Information Management

Job description

Love + medicine is who we are, it's what we do, it's why people want to work here.

Scheduled Weekly Hours: 40.

We’re not just filling positions, we’re building careers. At Emplify Health, we care for our teams, while they care for their communities. Whether you are just starting out or looking for a change, Emplify Health supports you now and into the future. Join us and find out how a little empathy changes everything.

We are hiring for a Coding Integrity Specialist! Emplify Health by Gundersen is seeking a highly detail-oriented and analytical individual to support coding quality, compliance, and education across our organization. This role plays a key part in ensuring accurate and compliant coding practices through auditing, reporting, and collaboration with coding, clinical, and revenue cycle teams.

What’s Available:

• 1.0 FTE (40 hours weekly)
• Full-time Shift: Monday–Friday, standard business hours
• Remote eligible (Must reside in WI, IA, or MN) - first day of work must be on-site in La Crosse, WI
• Department: Clinical Documentation Improvement / Coding Integrity

What You Will Do:

• Conduct coding audits to ensure compliance with coding guidelines, payer requirements, and regulatory standards
• Provide education and feedback to coding staff and leadership based on audit findings
• Monitor documentation and coding practices to identify improvement opportunities for providers and coders
• Collaborate with Revenue Cycle, Coding leadership, and Clinical Documentation teams on process improvements and regulatory updates
• Manage multiple audit projects, reporting, and quality improvement initiatives

What You Will Get:

• Starting wage of $25.38/hr + more for experience!
• Comprehensive healthcare and retirement benefits
• Opportunity to work independently while collaborating with system-wide teams
• Ongoing learning and development in coding quality, compliance, and auditing
• Work/life balance in a mission-driven healthcare organization

What You Need:

• Required: Associate degree in Health Information Management or related field OR High School Diploma/equivalent with a coding certification
• 5-7 years of healthcare coding experience (hospital or multi-specialty clinic setting)
• One of the following certifications: RHIA, RHIT, CCS, CCS-P, CPC, or CCA

Emplify Health, a partnership of Bellin Health and Gundersen Health System, is a leading not-for-profit, patient-centered healthcare network based in Green Bay and La Crosse, Wisconsin. With 11 hospitals and over 100 clinics, we serve 67 cities across Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota, and Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Join us in making a meaningful difference in the lives of our patients and communities.

We inspire your best life by relentlessly caring, learning and innovating. This is our purpose. Together with our values - belonging, respect, excellence, accountability, teamwork and humility - our pillars set our foundation and our future.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Around here, loving your job is part of the job. Join our mission in changing healthcare while finding a career you’ll love! Gundersen Health System offers a proud, local history spanning more than 100 years. Our personalized patient care model is only the beginning of what you will experience as we foster population health transformation and innovation to serve our communities and you. We've made it a priority to enrich the lives of our employees as they find a career they love. Using each employee’s unique talents and passions, Gundersen is committed to delivering exceptional patient and family-centered care to the communities we serve. You can be part of an exciting, highly adaptable and mission-driven organization with a work environment that supports you personally and professionally and a work culture where you are valued and appreciated offering an employee-first culture, work-life balance, and career advancement & growth opportunities. This culture allows our organization to attract elite talent, like yourself!

What You Can Expect:

Empowerment to shape your work environment, encouragement to improve processes and create efficiencies, and support when seeking opportunities for growth Culture that encourages self-care and provides you with opportunities to be your best self at work and at home Competitive compensation and comprehensive benefits packages, as applicable, ensuring your comfort and well-being as a valuable team member Support for your career growth through Professional Development Opportunities, our Tuition Investment Program, Career Development Center, and online continuing education courses Inside our walls and our neighborhoods, we deliver world-class medical care and the right amount of love. We call it LOVE + MEDICINE and it’s more than our practice. It is who we are.

Gundersen Health System, based in La Crosse, WI, is the leading provider of primary and specialized care in western Wisconsin, southeast Minnesota, and northeast Iowa; serving more than 500,000 residents throughout 22 counties. Our physician-led, not-for-profit healthcare system includes a 325-bed teaching hospital, tertiary referral center, and Level II Trauma Center; community clinics; 6 affiliate critical access hospitals; nursing homes; behavioral health services; vision centers; pharmacies; and air and ground ambulance services. Together, we inspire your best life by relentlessly caring, learning, and innovating. We deliver Love + Medicine every day to change lives in our communities and enrich the lives of our employees.

Select Remote/Hybrid Eligible under More search to see our remote-eligible openings. A rewarding career and an excellent quality of life awaits you.

Learn more about our excellence in patient care, education, research, culture, and something we call Love + Medicine at www.gundersenhealth.org/careers/life.