Director PB Coding & CDI

MultiCare Health System; Tacoma (WA); On-site; USD 105,000 - 151,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous PTO

Medical and dental benefits

Retirement benefits

Tuition assistance

Job summary

MultiCare Health System is seeking a Director of PB Coding and Professional Billing Clinical Documentation Integrity (PB CDI) to lead organization-wide PB coding, CDI operations, and coding education across hospitals, clinics, and employed providers.

You will oversee staff, ensure documentation integrity, and promote compliant, accurate reimbursement capture while driving continuous improvement and quality monitoring across the system.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in healthcare administration, management or similar discipline; 4 years of experience will be considered in lieu of a degree.
• RHIT certification is required.
• RHIA certification preferred.
• CCS-P, CPC, CCS, or CPC-H credential preferred.
• Minimum five (5) years of supervisory or lead experience.
• Minimum eight (8) years of hospital or professional coding experience.

Responsibilities

• Establishes, monitors, evaluates, and facilitates PB coding and PB CDI processes across the organization.
• Oversees Professional Billing Coding staff, Coding Audit Education staff, and PB CDI operations, including performance, audit outcomes, education needs, and resource utilization.
• Provides in-service education, training, quality review, and ongoing feedback to ensure coding accuracy and alignment with regulatory, operational, and reimbursement requirements.
• Uses management skills to support departmental operations and drive continuous improvement across PB coding and CDI functions.
• Develops consultative and collaborative relationships internally and externally with executives, management, physicians, nursing, coding, CDI, and staff.

Skills

RHIT

RHIA

CCS-P

CPC

Education

Bachelor's degree in healthcare administration or management

Job description

Join a team that shares your calling

At MultiCare, you’re more than just a job title — you’re part of a team built on trust that cares for each other, our patients and our communities. Belonging here means living our mission and values every day. If your purpose and passions align with ours, you’ll find a place to grow, do meaningful work and build a career you love in a community that feels like home.

FTE: 1, Shift: M-F, Schedule: 8-4:30

Position Summary

The Director of PB Coding and Professional Billing Clinical Documentation Integrity (PB CDI) is responsible for leading, coordinating, and managing organization-wide PB coding, coding audit education, data integrity, and PB CDI operations for MultiCare’s hospitals, physician clinics, and employed provider organization. This role ensures the accuracy of diagnosis and procedure coding as documented, supports appropriate reimbursement capture, promotes reliable reporting of services, and advances corporate compliance through consistent oversight, quality monitoring, education, and process improvement.

Responsibilities

• Establishes, monitors, evaluates, and facilitates PB coding and PB CDI processes across the organization.
• Oversight of Professional Billing Coding staff, Coding Audit Education staff, and PB CDI operations, including staff performance, work quality, audit outcomes, education needs, and appropriate utilization of human and material resources.
• Provides and supports in-service education, formal training, quality review, and ongoing feedback to ensure coding accuracy, documentation integrity, and alignment with regulatory, operational, and reimbursement requirements.
• Uses management skills daily to support departmental operations, execute policies, programs, and procedures, and drive continuous improvement across PB coding and CDI functions.
• Development of consultative and collaborative relationships internally and externally. Internal contacts include executives, management, physicians, nursing, coding, CDI, and staff throughout the Health System.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in healthcare administration, management or similar discipline from an accredited college or university; 4 years of experience will be considered in lieu of a degree
• Registered Health Information Technician (RHIT) required
• Registered Health Information Administrator (RHIA) preferred
• (CCS-P, CPC, CCS, or CPC-H) credential preferred
• Minimum five (5) years of experience in a supervisory or lead capacity
• Minimum eight (8) years of experience in hospital or professional coding

Why MultiCare?

Rooted in the local community

Partnering with patients, families and neighbors across the Pacific Northwest for more than 140 years.

Growth and education

Competitive tuition assistance, award-winning residencies, fellowships and career development to invest in you.

Well-being and support

Generous PTO, Code Lavender and Employee Assistance Programs to help you maintain balance and feel cared in your work and life.

Living our values

Respect, integrity, kindness and collaboration guide how we care for patients, communities and each other.

Belonging for all

Resource Groups and outreach programs help ensure every team member feels safe, seen, heard and valued.

Pacific Northwest lifestyle

Work and live where natural beauty, adventure and strong community connections are part of everyday life.

Pay and Benefit Expectations

We provide a comprehensive benefits package, including competitive salary, medical, dental and retirement benefits and paid time off. As required by various pay transparency laws, we share a competitive range of compensation for candidates hired into each position. The pay scale is $104,665.60 - $150,612.80 USD. However, pay is influenced by factors specific to applicants, including but not limited to: skill set, level of experience, and certification(s) and/or education. If this position is associated with a union contract, pay will be reflective of the appropriate step on the pay scale to which the applicant’s years of experience align.

Associated benefit information can be viewed here.