Director Health System Coding

Job description

Huron helps its clients drive growth, enhance performance and sustain leadership in the markets they serve.

We help healthcare organizations build innovation capabilities and accelerate key growth initiatives, enabling organizations to own the future, instead of being disrupted by it.

Together, we empower clients to create sustainable growth, optimize internal processes and deliver better consumer outcomes.

Health systems, hospitals and medical clinics are under immense pressure to improve clinical outcomes and reduce the cost of providing patient care.

Investing in new partnerships, clinical services and technology is not enough to create meaningful and substantive change.

To succeed long-term, healthcare organizations must empower leaders, clinicians, employees, affiliates and communities to build cultures that foster innovation to achieve the best outcomes for patients.

Joining the Huron team means you’ll help our clients evolve and adapt to the rapidly changing healthcare environment and optimize existing business operations, improve clinical outcomes, create a more consumer-centric healthcare experience, and drive physician, patient and employee engagement across the enterprise.

Join our team as the expert you are now and create your future.

Baystate Health is seeking a strategic and results-driven Director of Hospital Coding Operations to lead and optimize coding functions across our health system.

This role is central to ensuring accurate, compliant, and efficient coding practices that directly impact revenue cycle performance and clinical documentation integrity.

As part of Huron’s partnership with Baystate Health, this leader will oversee coding operations in a complex, high-volume, multi-specialty hospital environment.

The Director will collaborate closely with Baystate’s Revenue Cycle leadership and Huron’s senior team to drive performance improvements, implement best practices, and support strategic initiatives that enhance financial outcomes and operational efficiency.

KEY JOB DUTIES:

Guides and directs subordinate supervisors/managers on the Coding team.

Develops and implements policy and procedure recommendations to meet the needs of the Health and Hospital System and its patients.

Oversees preparation of the budget for areas of responsibility and participates in the preparation of the annual Health and Hospital System budget.

Prepares annual statement of goals and objectives in collaboration with subordinates.

Ensures compliance with all Federal, State, local government, and private industry mandates.

Ensures staff are aware and compliant with all applicable laws, regulations, guidelines, etc.

Analyzes and identifies coding service needs to determine appropriate action and make recommendations for problem resolution or procedural changes as needed.

Identifies issues, risks, barriers, and opportunities for improvement related to set responsibility area.

Analyzes, interprets, and summarizes pertinent coding data components, and monitor performance against Key Performance Indicators.

Develops professional and technical skill set in subordinate staff and develop ongoing training and education materials for staff and patient education.

Supervises, trains, develops, and motivates subordinate staff.

Performs related duties as required.

REQURIED SKILLS:

Effective and efficient organization and planning skills with the proven ability to manage complex multi-workstream performance improvement projects or multiple concurrent client engagements, while delegating and overseeing the work of junior team members.

Proven analytical and critical thinking skills required to synthesize complex data sets and interpret qualitative and quantitative data and trends to implement recommendations resulting in measurable performance improvement and successful organizational change.

Impactful and professional written and verbal communication set clear project team direction, develop key deliverables, escalate risks, and influence key stakeholders inclusive of client and internal senior leadership.

Ability to collaborate with team members and client counterparts to understand business challenges, adapt implementation methodologies and approaches to ensure results align with client’s business objectives.

Team leadership experience including building talent, training, supervising, coaching/mentoring, and performance management.

CORE QUALIFICATIONS:

Current permanent U.S. work authorization required

Bachelor's degree required

CCS

Direct Supervisory Experience required

8+ years of Coding operations experience

Proficient in Microsoft office (Word, PowerPoint, Excel)

Cerner system experience preferred

Position Level

Director

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