Supervisor - Coding Education

SSM Health; Kansas; Presencial; USD 70.000 - 110.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

SSM Health seeks a Supervisor of Coding Education to lead a team of coding educators and advance provider and coder education across the organization. You will guide curriculum development, ensure documentation accuracy, and drive compliance with CMS and payer requirements.

This role emphasizes audits, performance metrics, and staff development, partnering with coding operations to integrate education into daily workflows and reporting educational impact to leadership.

Formación

• Four years of experience in coding education, auditing, or healthcare education.
• Preferred: experience in Professional Billing (PB).
• Ability to design and deliver curricula and training materials.

Responsabilidades

• Lead and coordinate shift operations, assignments, and daily priorities for coding education staff.
• Provide ongoing feedback to coding staff and physicians on coding and documentation guidelines.
• Design, develop, and deliver training curricula, reference materials, and workshops for providers and coders.
• Oversee audits of provider documentation and coding accuracy and develop corrective education plans.
• Track audit findings and metrics; report to leadership and stakeholders.
• Ensure coding policies align with CMS, payer, and regulatory requirements.

Conocimientos

Leadership

Coding education

Auditing

Training design

CMS regulations

Educación

Bachelor's degree in healthcare

Descripción del empleo

Lead the team that turns coding expertise into organizational impact. As Supervisor of Coding Education, Professional at SSM Health, you’ll guide a team of coding educators, strengthen provider and coder education, and help advance coding accuracy, compliance, and revenue integrity across the organization.

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.

EXPERIENCE

• Four years' experience

• Prior experience in Professional Billing (PB) is preferred.