System Director, Coding-Quality Auditing and Education

Position Highlights:

• Position: System Director, Coding-Quality Auditing and Education
• Location: Skokie, IL
• Full Time
• Hours: Mon-Fri, standard business hours

What you will do:

Leadership

• Provides departmental leadership by serving as direct supervisor to system managers. Maintains a high-level of employee engagement throughout division. Ensures system managers/teams are directing vendor partners effectively and efficiently. Directs full business unit for budgeting purposes and manages to the budget.

Strategy

• Consults with institutions or associations and regulatory bodies regarding issues or concerns relevant to coding. Attends and transfers knowledge from internal and external education programs acting as a teacher, preceptor, or mentor for the orientation and education of providers and coding leaders. Uses knowledge to prepare for potential coding risks to organization and develops actionable roadmap (with compliance and coding directors) of coding quality auditing and education for implementation. Directs and guides system managers/teams to the plan for effective internal and external coding audits.

Quality Auditing

• Sets ongoing system-wide Key Performance Indicators (KPI's) with system managers for coding quality auditing department, and drives teams to best practices in meeting/exceeding benchmarks. Directs appropriate coding quality auditing for both hospital and professional coding teams and providers. Ensures the teams are responding and acting upon any coding quality auditing corrective action and/or proactive steps to minimize risk to the organization.

Education

• Sets ongoing system-wide KPI's with system manager for coding education department, and drives teams to best practices in meeting/exceeding benchmarks. Directs appropriate coding education for both hospital and professional coding teams and providers. Ensures the team is responding and acting upon any coding education needs and/or proactive steps to minimize risk to the organization.
• Consults and coordinates with other departments across the system to assess, plan, implement, or evaluate coding quality auditing and education needs. Works closely and collaboratively with hospital coding director and professional coding director.

What you will need:

• Education: Bachelors Degree
• Experience: 6+ years in a coding leadership role
• Certification: CCA, CCS, CPC, CCS-P, RHIA (or mix/combination)

Benefits:

• Career Pathways to Promote Professional Growth and Development
• Various Medical, Dental, Pet and Vision options
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Free Parking
• Wellness Program Savings Plan
• Health Savings Account Options
• Retirement Options with Company Match
• Paid Time Off and Holiday Pay
• Community Involvement Opportunities

Endeavor Health is a fully integrated healthcare delivery system committed to providing access to quality, vibrant, community-connected care, serving an area of more than 4.2 million residents across six northeast Illinois counties. Our more than 25,000 team members and more than 6,000 physicians aim to deliver transformative patient experiences and expert care close to home across more than 300 ambulatory locations and eight acute care hospitals - Edward (Naperville), Elmhurst, Evanston, Glenbrook (Glenview), Highland Park, Northwest Community (Arlington Heights) Skokie and Swedish (Chicago) - all recognized as Magnet hospitals for nursing excellence. For more information, visit .

When you work for Endeavor Health, you will be part of an organization that encourages its employees to achieve career goals and maximize their professional potential.

Please explore our website () to better understand how Endeavor Health delivers on its mission to "help everyone in our communities be their best".

Endeavor Health is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to individuals with disabilities. Please refer to the main career page for more information.

Diversity, equity and inclusion is at the core of who we are; being there for our patients and each other with compassion, respect and empathy. We believe that our strength resides in our differences and in connecting our best to provide community-connected healthcare for all.

EOE: Race/Color/Sex/Sexual Orientation/ Gender Identity/Religion/National Origin/Disability/Vets, VEVRRA Federal Contractor.

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