Spv-Coding Education, Professional

SSM Health; United States; Remote; USD 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

SSM Health seeks a Supervisor to lead the coding education team, mentor staff, and drive quality across the organization. You will oversee daily operations, hire and evaluate staff, and align education with CMS and regulatory requirements.

You'll coordinate training curricula, audits, and dashboards, report metrics to leadership, and contribute to process improvements and special projects. This role is Day Shift, Employee status, 40 hours weekly at SSM Health.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in business, healthcare or related field, or equivalent combination of experience and education
• Four years' experience

Responsibilities

• Leads and coordinates shift operations, work assignments and daily priorities of assigned activities, resources, and associates.
• Coordinates design, development, maintenance, and delivering of training curricula, coding job aids, reference materials, and workshops for providers and coders. Recommends process improvements, automation, or tools to improve accuracy, efficiency, and compliance.
• Oversees audits of provider documentation and coding accuracy to assess compliance, identify gaps, and develop corrective education plans.
• Tracks audit findings, trends, and metrics; reports results to leadership and stakeholders.
• Ensures that coding policies, procedures, and guidelines are up to date and align with Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), payer, and regulatory requirements.
• Supervises, mentors, and develops a team of coding education specialists, auditors, or trainers.
• Sets goals, conducts performance reviews, manages staff schedules, and monitors productivity and quality.
• Collaborates with coding operations leadership to integrate education and audit feedback loops into daily operations.
• Prepares reports, dashboards, metrics, and educational impact analysis to leadership.
• Leads or contributes to special projects, initiatives, and regulatory audits as assigned.
• Provides input for hiring, training, leading, and evaluating staff.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Education

Bachelor's degree in business, healthcare or related field, or equivalent combination of experience and education

Job description

Worker Type:

Regular

Job Highlights:

Join SSM Health and lead the future of coding excellence. As a Supervisor, you'll mentor teams, advance coding quality, and help drive exceptional outcomes across the organization.

Job Summary:

Supervises the daily operations of their assigned coding educator team. Hires and evaluates all staff on their team.

Job Responsibilities and Requirements:

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Leads and coordinates shift operations, work assignments and daily priorities of assigned activities, resources, and associates.
• Assists coding staff, physicians, and other health care practitioners with questions regarding coding and documentation guidelines. Provides ongoing feedback based on observations from coding physician/provider documentation. Assists in educational needs of coding staff based on these conversations and questions.
• Coordinates design, development, maintenance, and delivering of training curricula, coding job aids, reference materials, and workshops for providers and coders. Recommends process improvements, automation, or tools to improve accuracy, efficiency, and compliance.
• Oversees audits of provider documentation and coding accuracy to assess compliance, identify gaps, and develop corrective education plans.
• Tracks audit findings, trends, and metrics; reports results to leadership and stakeholders.
• Ensures that coding policies, procedures, and guidelines are up to date and align with Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), payer, and regulatory requirements.
• Supervises, mentors, and develops a team of coding education specialists, auditors, or trainers.Sets goals, conducts performance reviews, manages staff schedules, and monitors productivity and quality.
• Collaborates with coding operations leadership to integrate education and audit feedback loops into daily operations.
• Prepares reports, dashboards, metrics, and educational impact analysis to leadership.
• Leads or contributes to special projects, initiatives, and regulatory audits as assigned.
• Provides input for hiring, training, leading, and evaluating staff.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

EDUCATION

• Bachelor's degree in business, healthcare or related field, or equivalent combination of experience and education

EXPERIENCE

• Four years' experience

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS

• Frequent lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing 0-25 lbs.
• Frequent sitting, standing, walking, reaching and repetitive foot/leg and hand/arm movements.
• Frequent use of vision and depth perception for distances near (20 inches or less) and far (20 feet or more) and to identify and distinguish colors.
• Frequent use of hearing and speech to share information through oral communication. Ability to hear alarms, malfunctioning machinery, etc.
• Frequent keyboard use/data entry.
• Occasional bending, stooping, kneeling, squatting, twisting and gripping.
• Occasional lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing 25-50 lbs.
• Rare climbing.

REQUIRED PROFESSIONAL LICENSE AND/OR CERTIFICATIONS

State of Work Location: Illinois, Missouri, Oklahoma, Wisconsin

• Certified Coding Associate (CCA) - American Health Information Management Assoc (AHIMA)
• Or
• Certified Coding Specialist - Physician-based (CCS-P) - American Health Information Management Assoc (AHIMA)
• Or
• Certified Outpatient Coder (COC) - American Academy of Professional Coders (AAPC)
• Or
• Certified Professional Coder (CPC) - American Academy of Professional Coders (AAPC)
• Or
• Registered Health Information Administrator (RHIA) - American Health Information Management Assoc (AHIMA)
• Or
• Registered Health Information Technician (RHIT) - American Health Information Management Assoc (AHIMA)

Work Shift:

Day Shift (United States of America)

Job Type:

Employee

Department:

8700070033 PB Coding Quality

Scheduled Weekly Hours:

40

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