As a Supervisor, Coding your work at Tegria will focus on overseeing a team of Coders delivering Outsourced Coding Services, primarily to Critical Access Hospitals and Rural Health Clinics. This position involves leading the team to ensure accurate and timely coding of medical records, maintaining compliance with coding standards, and streamlining coding workflows. The Supervisor ensures that all coding practices adhere to healthcare regulations, payer requirements, and internal policies, ultimately contributing to precise billing and reimbursement.

The role you play

An effective Supervisor, Coding  will help the organization on a whole achieve success through:

• Living our Tegria values: Respect Every Person, Act with Integrity, Strive for Better, Embrace Change, Deliver as a Team

• Oversee a team of medical coders, providing guidance, support, and training to ensure they perform their duties accurately and efficiently.

• Foster a collaborative and productive team environment.

• Review and audit coded data to ensure accuracy, completeness, and compliance with ICD-10, CPT, and HCPCS coding guidelines.

• Ensure that codes are assigned correctly for diagnoses, procedures, and services.

• Ensure compliance with all regulatory requirements, including HIPAA, CMS, payer-specific guidelines, and industry coding standards.

• Stay up to date with coding changes and updates to maintain accuracy and regulatory adherence.

• Provide ongoing training to coding staff on updates to coding procedures, regulations, and best practices.

• Offer opportunities for professional development to enhance team skills and maintain certification.

• Resolve coding-related issues and discrepancies, collaborating with physicians, providers, billing, and other departments to clarify diagnoses, procedures, or billing codes.

• Act as a point of contact for complex coding inquiries.

• Track and monitor individual coder performance, providing feedback, coaching, and corrective action when necessary.

• Ensure that coders meet accuracy standards.

What we’re looking for

We expect:

• High school diploma, GED, or equivalent

• Certification requirement: CPC, CCA, CCS, CIC or COC

• 7+ years medical coding experience

• University/college degree, or experience medical records, claims or billing areas is an asset.

• Previous medical office experience preferred.

• MEDITECH experience preferred.

• Able to work successfully with minimal supervision and with considerable latitude for independent judgement

• Demonstrated ability to assist and mentor less experienced team members

• Extensive knowledge of coding, abstracting and relevant regulations.

• Experience with relevant software applications and systems, e.g. electronic medical record system.

• Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite products.

• Demonstrated ability to audit and identify issues and resolve or escalate the issues as appropriate.

• Organized with exceptional verbal and written communication skills  

• Strong attention to detail

• Strong commitment to ethical behavior and complying with laws and regulations involved in the job.

• Comfortable and accountable working in a remote work environment in which video conference calls and virtual shared workspaces and tools are common.

• Able to communicate tactfully and firmly with patients, providers, medical records staff and third-party insurers.

• Must have a private, secure workspace available at home and access to internet with speed sufficient to perform the job

• W2 project-based consultants will be expected to provide a computing device that adheres to industry standards and security best practices to use in satisfying the Project Services on behalf of Tegria

Success Criteria

People who are successful in this role…

• Maintain high standards for the quality of their own and others’ work

• Thrive under the pressure of time constraints

• Approach their work with a service mentality 

• Autonomous and have excellent follow-through

• Open to feedback and a mindset to grow skills  

Salary Range

Now, a little about us …

At Tegria, we bring bold ideas and breakthroughs to improve care, technology, revenue, and operations in ways that move healthcare organizations from patient-centered to human-centered. We are helping healthcare put people first—both patients and those who dedicate their lives to delivering care.

And at the very core of this vital work is our incredibly talented people.

People with different backgrounds who welcome challenge and change. People who listen first, ask hard questions, and make decisions to cultivate a culture of equity and inclusion. People who chase after goals, growth, and generosity. We’re real. We’re nimble, and we believe in our mission to humanize healthcare.

Perks and benefits

Top talent deserves top rewards. We’ve carefully curated a best-in-class benefits package, meant to meet you wherever you are in your life and career.

• Your health, holistically. We offer a choice of multiple health and dental plans with nationally recognized networks, as well as vision benefits, a total wellness program, and an employee assistance program for you and your family.
   

• Your financial well-being. We offer competitive wages, retirement savings plans, company-paid disability and life insurance, pre-tax savings opportunities (HSA and/or FSA), and more.
   

• And everything in between. Our lifestyle benefits are unrivaled, including professional development offerings, opportunities for remote work, and our favorite: a generous paid-time-off program, giving you the flexibility to plan a vacation, take time away for illness (or life’s important events), and shift your schedule to accommodate those unexpected curve balls thrown your way.
   

Tegria is an equal employment opportunity employer and provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply.