Manager, Coding

*This is a remote position which requires residence in Arizona, Texas, Tennessee, New Hampshire, Florida, or North Carolina.  

Company Overview

National Partners in Healthcare (NPH) is a progressive healthcare company specializing in anesthesiology. We partner with physicians and health systems to deliver high-quality care, aligning synergies and best practices to achieve superior outcomes. As a leader in the industry, we believe in developing a foundation of trust, transparency, and excellence in everything we do. The success of our company has created excellent career advancement opportunities that support a healthy work/life balance.

Position

The Coding Manager is responsible for ensuring timely, accurate, consistent, and compliant coding through appropriate direction, training, auditing, and supervision of the Coding staff. This position oversees coding quality and compliance with applicable federal and state regulations, payer requirements, industry standards, and NPH policies and procedures. The Coding Manager provides daily, weekly, and monthly reports to management as requested and supports continuous improvement of coding processes to promote accuracy, compliance, and operational efficiency.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Manage the Coding team including, but not limited to, hiring, training, managing, evaluating team performance, and conducting professional development plans.
• Provide training and ongoing education, annual reviews, and performance monitoring for all coders, including education related to coding compliance, regulatory updates, payer requirements, and industry standards.
• Develop, implement, and monitor compliance policies and procedures for the Coding team to ensure adherence to applicable laws, regulations, payer requirements, and company standards.
• Ensure coding practices are consistent with applicable CMS, Medicare, Medicaid, Workers’ Compensation, payer, and industry requirements.
• Ensure coders maintain accurate and complete documentation to support billed services and assigned CPT, ICD-10, HCPCS, and ASA codes.
• Monitor coder productivity, accuracy, quality, and compliance. Communicate standards and performance expectations.
• Monitor turnaround time for coding completion and ensure coding is completed within established operational and compliance standards.
• Monitor concurrency daily and identify trends or issues requiring corrective action.
• Provide coding guidance to physicians, CRNAs, and other providers regarding documentation, coding requirements, and compliance standards.
• Audit coding work queues and maintain appropriate quality standards, including CPT, ICD-10, ASA, and HCPCS coding.
• Conduct and/or coordinate routine coding audits to identify coding errors, documentation deficiencies, compliance risks, and opportunities for education or process improvement.
• Review audit findings and implement corrective action plans, retraining, and follow-up monitoring as appropriate.
• Maintain current knowledge of federal and state healthcare regulations, CMS requirements, payer policies, coding guidelines, and industry standards affecting anesthesia and pain management coding.
• Identify, escalate, and assist in resolving potential coding compliance concerns, billing discrepancies, or other issues that may create regulatory, financial, or operational risk.
• Support internal and external audits, payer audits, compliance reviews, and other regulatory inquiries related to coding activities.
• Maintain knowledge and understanding of billing systems, coding software, and automation daily processes to ensure accurate and compliant workflows.
• Maintain strict confidentiality and protect patient health information in accordance with HIPAA and company privacy and security requirements.
• Adhere to all company policies and procedures, including applicable compliance, privacy, security, and information systems policies.
• Adherence to and compliance with information systems security is everyone’s responsibility. It is the responsibility of every computer user to know and follow Information Systems security policies and procedures, attend Information Systems security training when offered, and report information systems security problems.
• Mentors' employees, conducts performance evaluations, counsels, provides disciplinary actions to assigned personnel, and works to facilitate individual and team development that drives positive results.
• Continually identify process improvement methods and opportunities to automate processes to increase efficiency while maintaining coding accuracy, quality, and compliance.
• Maintain appropriate documentation of coding audits, education, corrective actions, and compliance activities.
• Monitor coding trends and regulatory changes and communicate relevant updates to leadership and the Coding team.
• Performs other duties as assigned.