Outpatient Coding Team Lead

University of Maryland; Baltimore (MD); On-site; Full time

Job summary

The University of Maryland is seeking an Outpatient Coding Team Lead responsible for supervising coders and ensuring compliance with coding standards. This role requires experience in outpatient coding, excellent communication skills, and relevant certifications. The successful candidate will play a critical role in maintaining the financial stability of the organization.

Qualifications

• 4 years’ experience with coding outpatient hospital medical records.
• Experience should meet certification standards.

Responsibilities

• Supervises and instructs coders in outpatient coding tasks.
• Assists in resolving coding inquiries and communicates with departments.
• Monitors billing processes and supports billing compliance.

Skills

Critical thinking

Communication

Problem-solving

Education

Bachelor’s degree in related field

Associates degree or 6 years’ experience

Certified Coding Specialist (CCS)

Certified Professional Coder (CPC)

Registered Health Information Technician (RHIT)

Registered Health Information Administrator (RHIA)

Job description

Job Description

1. Under direct supervision, the Outpatient Coding Team Lead, provides day to day supervision and instruction for the coders. The Inpatient Coding Team Lead oversees specific hospital outpatient accounts based on acuity for the purpose of appropriate reimbursement, research, statistics and compliance to federal and state regulations in accordance with established ICD-10-CM and CPT-4coding classification systems.
2. The Outpatient Coding Team Lead assists in resolving interdepartmental coding inquiries and communicates with various departments within the hospitals regarding billing and registration issues.
3. The Outpatient Coding Team Lead must have working knowledge of NCCI edits and medical necessity.
4. Serves as a clinical coding subject matter expert, and utilizes critical thinking to analyze and evaluate documentation issues with consultation from Clinical staff, Clinical Documentation Specialists, and Coding Quality as needed.
5. Provides coding support as needed for ICD-10 diagnostic codes and CPT-4 procedure codes to outpatient, ambulatory surgery, and observation visits for the purpose of reimbursement, research and compliance with federal and state regulations. Provides day to day instruction for the coders, which includes WQ monitoring, problem solving, monitoring productivity, scheduling, training, and enterprise testing.
6. Provides backup coding support for outpatient coding as needed.
7. Monitors coder’s assigned work on a daily basis in order to facilitate the billing process within the established timeframes.
8. Communicates staffing shortages for associated workload.
9. Monitors bill holds to maintain financial stability of organization.

Company Description

The University of Maryland Medical System (UMMS) is an academic private health system, focused on delivering compassionate, high quality care and putting discovery and innovation into practice at the bedside. Partnering with the University of Maryland School of Medicine, University of Maryland School of Nursing and University of Maryland, Baltimore who educate the state’s future health care professionals, UMMS is an integrated network of care, delivering 25 percent of all hospital care in urban, suburban and rural communities across the state of Maryland. UMMS puts academic medicine within reach through primary and specialty care delivered at 11 hospitals, including the flagship University of Maryland Medical Center, the System’s anchor institution in downtown Baltimore, as well as through a network of University of Maryland Urgent Care centers and more than 150 other locations in 13 counties. For more information, visit www.umms.org.

Qualifications

• Associates degrees or total of 6 years’ experience.
• 4 years’ experience with coding outpatient hospital medical records.
• One of the following: Certified Coding Specialist (CCS), Certified Professional Coder (CPC).
• · Bachelor’s degree in related field
• Registered Health Information Technician (RHIT), Registered Health Information Administrator (RHIA).

Additional Information

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Compensation:

Pay Range:$33.36-$46.7

Other Compensation (if applicable):

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