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$1,000 SIGN ON BONUS FOR EXTERNAL APPLICANTS Opportunities at Optum, in strategic partnership with Allina Health. As an Optum employee, you will provide support to the Allina Health account. The work you do with our team will directly improve health outcomes by connecting people with the care, pharmacy benefits, data, and resources they need to feel their best. Here, you will find a culture guided by diversity and inclusion, talented peers, comprehensive benefits, and career development opportunities. Come make an impact on the communities we serve as you help us advance health equity on a global scale. Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together. This position is responsible for maintaining, overseeing, and ensuring coding functions are performed in accordance with system-wide policies, procedures, and governing bodies. He/she monitors staff and department performance and productivity levels and proposes ways to improve effectiveness, efficiency, and productivity. Promotes effective use of data for quality assessment and improvement of customer services and clinical outcomes, creates and manages employee work schedules, provides feedback to employees through formal and informal coaching, and prepares and administers staff performance reviews, and partners with human resources in the recruiting and interview process. You’ll enjoy the flexibility to telecommute* from anywhere near Minneapolis, MN as you take on some tough challenges. Primary Responsibilities:
- Supervision of inpatient Hospital bill coding, responsible for DRG and ICD-10-PCS procedure code assignment
- Ensures functions performed in accordance with system wide policies, procedures, and governing organizations
- Defines individual and team goals
- Monitors staff and department performance and productivity levels and proposes ways to improve effectiveness, efficiency, and productivity
- Analyzes and identifies problem areas and adjust processes and staffing priorities
- Collaborates with the coding manager, coding director, clinic administrators, finance leaders, and health care providers to ensure quality data
- Promotes effective use of data for quality assessment and improvement of customer services and clinical outcomes
- Coordinates and provides billing and coding education to physicians, providers, coders, and management
- May monitor physician profiles to identify trends and areas of improvement
- Coordinates day-to-day support of staff and the department
- Creates and manages employee work schedules
- Provides feedback to employees through formal and informal coaching
- Prepares and administers staff performance reviews
- Analyzes performance metrics to locate and resolve issues and trends
- Partners with Human Resources in the recruiting and interview process
- Other duties as assigned
- High School Diploma/GED (or higher)
- One of the following certifications:
- Registered Health Information Administrator - American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA)
- Registered Health Information Technician - American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA)
- Certified Coding Specialist - American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA)
- 1+ years of healthcare experience
- 1+ years of coding experience
- Experience working with governmental compliance rules/regulations and coding guidelines
- Supervisory experience
- Bachelor's degree in Healthcare Administration
- Associate's or Vocational degree in Health Information
About the Company
UnitedHealth Group
Minnetonka, MN, United States
UnitedHealth Group is a health care and well-being company that’s dedicated to improving the health outcomes of millions worldwide. We are... Read more