Remote Hospital Coding Quality & Compliance Analyst

Advocate Health; Louisiana; Remote; USD 49,000 - 73,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work eligible

Job summary

Advocate Health seeks an experienced Professional and Hospital Coding Quality Specialist to ensure accurate coding practices and enterprise consistency across departments.

You will develop coding guidance, supervise audits, and partner with clinical teams to improve documentation quality while supporting regulatory and AHIMA coding standards. This role supports remote work options in approved states.

Qualifications

• 5 years of expert-level professional coding or hospital-based coding.
• AHIMA or AAPC certification such as RHIA, RHIT, CCS, CCS-P, or CPC is required.

Responsibilities

• Research, interpret, and apply coding, payer, and regulatory requirements to support accurate and compliant Professional and Hospital coding practices.
• Develop, maintain, and update coding guidance, standard work, reference materials, and position statements for enterprise consistency.
• Coordinate and support coding quality audits by routing requests, maintaining records, and verifying documentation completeness and accuracy; track findings and corrective actions.
• Analyze coding quality data and audit results to identify trends, risks, and opportunities for improvement.
• Prepare summaries, reports, and materials for leadership, audit reviews, and quality improvement initiatives.
• Partner with Integrity Operations, coding leadership, clinicians, and education teams to improve documentation quality and coding accuracy.
• Support regulatory, compliance, and quality-related projects, ensuring adherence to policies and AHIMA standards.
• Respond to internal inquiries related to coding guidance, quality findings, and audit outcomes.
• Support testing, reporting validation, and workflow updates related to coding quality, guidance, and compliance initiatives.

Skills

ICD CPT HCPCS knowledge

Medical terminology

Data analysis

Verbal and written communication

Training others

Microsoft Office

EHR systems

Remote workforce operations

Education

Associate degree or equivalent

Tools

Microsoft Office

EHR systems

Job description

Advocate Health seeks an experienced Professional and Hospital Coding Quality Specialist to ensure accurate coding practices and enterprise consistency across departments.

You will develop coding guidance, supervise audits, and partner with clinical teams to improve documentation quality while supporting regulatory and AHIMA coding standards. This role supports remote work options in approved states.