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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.

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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 changes. 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.

The US Professional Coding Manager is responsible for the day-to-day operations and oversight of multi-shore professional coding services processes to ensure timely, accurate, consistent and compliant assignment of diagnosis and CPT/HCPCS codes. This leader ensures adherence to regulatory guidelines and payer requirements and supports optimal reimbursement through quality coding practices.

KEY RESPONSIBILITES:

Operational Oversight:

• Provide oversight of global professional coding team performance.

• Act in the role of professional coding point of contact for multiple clients.

• Manage relationships with global professional coding leadership.

• Maintain EPIC coding edit work queues, resolving coding edits to ensure accurate and timely claims submission.

• Support global professional coding teams through Epic system analytics and reporting.

• Provide guidance on CMS and commercial payer regulations, ensuring adherence to current coding and billing standards.

• Conduct ongoing compliance monitoring and risk assessments to prevent coding errors and revenue leakage.

• Serve as a coding subject matter expert for Revenue Cycle Management (RCM) teams, resolving complex coding and denial-related issues.

• Supervise and support professional coding staff including hiring, onboarding, scheduling, and performance management.

• Monitor coding productivity, accuracy, and turnaround time for coding completion.

• Ensure timely resolution of coding-related edits and billing holds.

• Manage multiple work demands simultaneously.

Quality & Compliance:

• Conduct coding audits and accuracy reviews, ensuring compliance with ICD-10, CPT/HCPCS, and applicable CMS/OIG regulations.

• Address coding-related denials and partner with billing and A/R teams to identify root causes.

• Stay current with regulatory and coding updates and disseminate guidance to staff.

• Ensure coding policies & procedures are current and reflect the most compliant/accepted practices for professional coding.

• Ensured compliance of federal, state and HIPAA guidelines.

Collaboration & Support:

• Work closely with HIM, Revenue Integrity, CDI, Billing, and Clinical departments to ensure clean claim generation.

• Support charge description master (CDM) accuracy through collaboration with revenue integrity.

• Coordinate with IT on encoder, EHR, and CAC system optimization.

Education & Training

• Provide regular coder education on coding updates, documentation changes, and audit findings.

• Mentor coding leads or senior coders to support succession planning and career development.

Coordinating with Healthcare Providers:

• Work closely with physicians, nurses, and other healthcare professionals to ensure timely and accurate documentation that reflects the care provided to patients. Obtain clarification as appropriate.

CORE QUALIFICATIONS:

o Current permanent US Work Authorization required

Associate or bachelor’s degree in health information management or healthcare administration.

o 5+ years of experience in professional medical coding with an additional 2+ years in a coding leadership role.

o AAPC Certification Required: CPC

o Epic experience and proficiency.

o Experience with 3M/Solventum Encoder.

o Previous experience managing remote coding teams.

o Understanding of multiple specialties e.g. E/M, Emergency Medicine, Family practice, Hospitalists, OB, critical care, ancillary, IV infusion, outpatient departments, Urgent Care, Primary Care, Inpatient E/M, Pediatrics, Observation, Ancillary services, and claim edit work queues.

o Strong knowledge of HCCs, NCCI edits, and medical necessity concepts.

o Current permanent U.S. Work Authorization required.

o Strong communication skills and desire to work as part of a team in a partnership role

o Advanced excel skills, working knowledge of advanced Tableau and /or other data mining and data visualization tools, report writing and workflow design

• Preferred

• AHIMA Certification preferred (in addition to the required CPC): RHIT or RHIA

• Professional coding auditing experience preferred

• Large Health system experience preferred

• Matrix management organization

• Working with global coding teams

• Experience working with data from various sources preferred

The estimated salary range for this job is $90,000- $130,000. The range represents a good faith estimate of the range that Huron reasonably expects to pay for this job at the time of the job posting. The actual salary paid to an individual will vary based on multiple factors, including but not limited to specific skills or certifications, years of experience, market changes and required travel. This job is also eligible to participate in Huron’s annual incentive compensation program, which reflects Huron’s pay for performance philosophy and Huron’s benefit plans which include medical, dental and vision coverage and other wellness programs. The salary range information provided is in accordance with applicable state and local laws regarding salary transparency that are currently in effect and may be implemented in the future.

Position Level

Manager

Country

United States of America

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Huron Consulting Group offers a competitive compensation and benefits package including medical, dental, and vision coverage to employees and dependents; a 401(k) plan with a generous employer match; an employee stock purchase plan; a generous Paid Time Off policy; and paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Our Wellness Program supports employee total well-being by providing free annual health screenings and coaching, bank at work, and on-site workshops, as well as ongoing programs recognizing major events in the lives of our employees throughout the year. All benefits and programs are subject to applicable eligibility requirements.

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