Role Description You have a purpose, unique talents and now is the time to embrace it, live it and put it to work. We value incredible people with incredible skills – but your commitment to a greater cause is something we value even more. This is the heartbeat of our organization and your time will be spent in a supportive, team environment with resources to help you flourish and leaders who care about your success. - Supervises professional fee coders for assigned departments (Primary Care or Specialty Care) for employed providers as well as designated PSA and other practices. - Key duties include, but are not limited to: - Coding, abstracting, and charge posting for physician services in the inpatient and outpatient settings. - Directly supervises coding and support staff. - Actively participates in managing charge lag by monitoring reports and work queue activity to meet and maintain established metrics. - Monitors staff quality and productivity, and provides additional education, as needed. - Recommends operational improvements and participates in the review of policies and procedures. - Works collaboratively with clinics and providers to resolve coding issues and questions. - Participates with management in personnel management, scheduling, productivity, quality, and problem resolution. - Works with coding managers and director to implement processes to improve professional fee coding operations. Qualifications - Associates Degree Preferred - A minimum of 3 years of experience in health care and revenue cycle experience required within a physician practice. - Professional coding experience required. - 1 year of supervisory experience preferred. - Must demonstrate competency of professional coding and coding guidelines. - Experience with the electronic health record (EHR) and health care applications required. - Certified Professional Coder Required (CPC or CCS-P). - Certified Professional Medical Auditor Preferred. Requirements - Sedentary work - prolonged periods of sitting and exert up to 10 lbs. force occasionally.

• Reviews and abstracts clinical documentation from complex inpatient orthopedic and spine surgery records to assign accurate ICD-10-CM, ICD-10-PCS, DRG, POA, and discharge disposition codes. • Independently codes high-acuity inpatient orthopedic spine surgery cases including cervical, thoracic, and lumbar procedures, revisions, fusions, instrumentation, and neurological-related musculoskeletal procedures. • Provides real-time feedback and training for coding staff to improve coding quality and productivity. • Applies and validates accurate MS-DRG assignments while ensuring compliance with CMS, UHDDS, Official Coding Guidelines, and payer-specific requirements. • Identifies coding trends, documentation gaps, and reimbursement risks and communicates findings to leadership. • Maintains productivity and quality standards while managing high-volume and high-complexity inpatient workloads. • Serves as a coding resource and mentor to less experienced coders and assists with onboarding and education initiatives. • Participates in policy development, coding guideline interpretation, and implementation of regulatory updates. • Acts as a liaison between coding staff, leadership, and external stakeholders. • Supports coding audits, denials management, appeals, and quality improvement activities as assigned.

• Review clinical documentation to assign and sequence diagnostic and procedural codes • Validate MS-DRG calculations to accurately capture the diagnoses and procedures documented in the clinical record. • Perform documentation review and assessment for accurate abstracting of clinical data • Interact with client staff and providers as needed • Participate in continuing education activities to enhance knowledge, skills, and maintain current credentials.

• Assigns appropriate codes to reflect all diagnoses and procedures extrapolated from physician and appropriate nursing documentation during a patient encounter according to the most current coding methodologies, including ICD-10-CM/PCS, resulting in appropriate reimbursement. • Abstracts required data to input into the Medical Center's computerized data base. • Converts all patient visits and encounters into appropriate DRG (Diagnosis Related Group) assignments in order to correctly submit the optimal reimbursement for each patient encounter coded. • Assists the IP Coding Manager in administrative duties such as assignment of coding work, analysis of the unbilled report, and other duties as assigned. • Maintains coding accuracy rate of 95% or better. • Maintains productivity standards set forth in Departmental Policies and procedures. • Reviews patient medical records and abstracts medical data that identifies all diagnoses and procedures. • Codes diagnoses, procedures, and appropriate modifiers from the medical record documentation using ICD-10-CM/PCS classification systems. • Enters coded/abstracted information in grouper, analyzes groupings, and assigns the appropriate grouper for appropriate and accurate reimbursement. • Utilizes hospital’s behavioral standards as the basis for decision making and to facilitate the hospital’s goals and mission.