Vendor Resource Management Coding Lead

HCA Healthcare; Nashville (TN); Remote; USD 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare organization is seeking a Vendor Resource Management Team Lead to oversee coding quality and provide education for vendor coders. The ideal candidate will have experience in acute care coding, strong analytical skills, and relevant qualifications. This fully remote position offers comprehensive benefits and the opportunity to contribute to improving patient care. Apply today for a rewarding career!

Benefits

Comprehensive medical coverage

401(k) Plan with matching contributions

Education assistance

Qualifications

• Minimum of 2 years acute care inpatient and/or outpatient coding experience required.
• RHIA, RHIT and/or CCS required.
• Management supervisory experience in healthcare preferred.

Responsibilities

• Perform concurrent and retrospective quality reviews of vendor coding.
• Prepare and provide coder education based on audit outcomes.
• Assist with vendor management and coding quality processes.

Skills

ICD-10 Coding

Coding education presentation

Quality review analysis

Education

High School diploma

Undergraduate degree in HIM/HIT

Tools

Computer Assisted Coding (CAC)

Job description

Description

Introduction

Are you passionate about the patient experience? At HCA Healthcare, we are committed to caring for patients with purpose and integrity. We care like family! Jump-start your career as a Vendor Resource Management Team Lead today with Parallon.

This is a fully work from home position.

This position has a specialization in Inpatient Coding.

Benefits

Parallon offers a total rewards package that supports the health, life, career and retirement of our colleagues. The available plans and programs include:

• Comprehensive medical coverage that covers many common services at no cost or for a low copay. Plans include prescription drug and behavioral health coverage as well as free telemedicine services and free AirMed medical transportation.
• Additional options for dental and vision benefits, life and disability coverage, flexible spending accounts, supplemental health protection plans (accident, critical illness, hospital indemnity), auto and home insurance, identity theft protection, legal counseling, long-term care coverage, moving assistance, pet insurance and more.
• Free counseling services and resources for emotional, physical and financial wellbeing
• 401(k) Plan with a 100% match on 3% to 9% of pay (based on years of service)
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan with 10% off HCA Healthcare stock
• Family support through fertility and family building benefits with Progyny and adoption assistance.
• Referral services for child, elder and pet care, home and auto repair, event planning and more
• Consumer discounts through Abenity and Consumer Discounts
• Retirement readiness, rollover assistance services and preferred banking partnerships
• Education assistance (tuition, student loan, certification support, dependent scholarships)
• Colleague recognition program
• Time Away From Work Program (paid time off, paid family leave, long- and short-term disability coverage and leaves of absence)
• Employee Health Assistance Fund that offers free employee-only coverage to full-time and part-time colleagues based on income.

Learn more about Employee Benefits (https://careers.hcahealthcare.com/pages/employee-benefits-and-rewards)

Note: Eligibility for benefits may vary by location.

Come join our team as a Vendor Resource Management Team Lead. We care for our community! Just last year, HCA Healthcare and our colleagues donated $13.8 million dollars to charitable organizations. Apply Today!

Job Summary and Qualifications

As a Vendor Resource Management Coding Lead, you will be responsible for performing concurrent and retrospective quality reviews of vendor ICD-10 Diagnosis and PCS Code/CPT/DRG/abstracting assignments as well as compilation and reporting of results to enhance quality outcomes. You will prepare and provide coder specific education based on audit outcomes and trends. Additionally, you will also assists the VRM Manager with vendor management including monitoring processes and services for improvement, coding quality, trending/analyzing data, creating and presenting education, answering coding questions, and account follow up/resolution.

What you will do in this role:

• Actively participates in the review and improvement of processes and services
• Responsible for analyzing weekly/monthly quality data to identify trends by vendor and coder/auditor that need to be addressed
• Prepares and presents coder education as needed based on trends and/or problematic areas identified by Parallon HIM back officecoding staff
• Collates and presents quality trends and findings to the VRM management team, Vendor teams, and Parallon stakeholders
• Monitors and ensures vendor staff adhere with coding guidelines and policies
• Demonstrates and applies expert level knowledge of medical coding practices and concepts; assists in ensuring vendor coders adherence with coding guidelines and policy
• Assists in managing coding vendor daily workflow (e.g., work queues,/worklists, turnaround times, quality)
• Performs quality reviews of inpatient and/or outpatient records as needed (including concurrent coding); where applicable, validates physician queries, ICD-10-CM, ICD-10-PCS, CPT/HCPCS level II Codes as well as facility E/M levels and injection/infusion procedure codes assigned by vendor coders
• Performs operational reviews of inpatient and/or outpatient records as needed. Validates accuracy of codes assigned by CAC (Computer Assisted Coding) tool; assists in monitoring coders CAC adoption behavior; assists in identifying precision and recall improvement opportunities
• Monitors and assists the vendors in the monthly random, focus, prebill review, and Ad Hoc quality review process
• Submits and reviews coding appeals as appropriate

What qualifications you will need:

• High School diploma required.
• Undergraduate degree in HIM/HIT preferred.
• Management/Supervisory experience in healthcare related field preferred
• Minimum of 2 years acute care inpatient and/or outpatient coding experience required
• Coding auditing/monitoring experience strongly preferred
• RHIA, RHIT and/or CCS required

About Parallon

Parallon provides full-service revenue cycle management, or total patient account resolution, for HCA Healthcare. Our services include scheduling, registration, insurance verification, hospital billing, revenue integrity, collections, payment compliance, credentialing, health information management, customer service, payroll and physician billing. We also provide full-service revenue cycle management as well as targeted solutions, such as Medicaid Eligibility, for external clients across the country. Parallon has over 17,000 colleagues, and serves close to 1,000 hospitals and 3,000 physician practices, all making an impact on patients, providers and their communities.

HCA Healthcare has been recognized as one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies® by the Ethisphere Institute more than ten times. In recent years, HCA Healthcare spent an estimated $3.7 billion in cost for the delivery of charitable care, uninsured discounts, and other uncompensated expenses.

"The great hospitals will always put the patient and the patient\'s family first, and the really great institutions will provide care with warmth, compassion, and dignity for the individual." - Dr. Thomas Frist, Sr.

HCA Healthcare Co-Founder

If you are looking for an opportunity that provides satisfaction and personal growth, we encourage you to apply for our Vendor Resource Management Team Lead opening. We promptly review all applications. Highly qualified candidates will be contacted for interviews. Unlock the possibilities and apply today!

We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.