Healthcare Project Manager

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The Project Manager for the Computer-Assisted Coding (CAC) and Clinical Documentation Integrity (CDI) Software Deployment Project is responsible for end-to-end planning, coordination, execution, and delivery of enterprise CAC/CDI implementations across inpatient, outpatient, and professional billing environments. This role provides delivery governance, cross-functional coordination, and execution discipline, ensuring that scope, schedule, quality, and risk are actively managed across business, clinical, IT, QA, compliance, and vendor teams.

The Project Manager ensures that project execution remains requirements-driven, testable, auditable, and operationally sustainable, rather than focused solely on technical go-live milestones. This role will ensure sustained commitment to documentation, reporting, and record keeping, enabling proactive status reporting while responding to ad hoc requests for information.

• Develop and maintain integrated project plans with work packages, tasks, assignments, predecessors, and successors, covering business analysis, interface development, testing, training, go-live, stabilization, and core application configuration.
• Establish and manage milestones, dependencies, critical paths, and deliverables across all CAC/CDI work streams.
• Ensure alignment between project plans, resource availability, and organizational priorities.

• Establish and maintain project governance structures, including status reporting, decision logs, risk and issue registers, and escalation pathways.
• Proactively identify and manage risks related to scope, data readiness, workflow maturity, testing coverage, training readiness, and operational adoption.
• Serve as the primary escalation point for delivery risks that may impact quality, compliance, or revenue cycle performance.

• Partner closely with Business Analysts to ensure clear, approved, testable requirements and alignment between current-state assessment and future-state design.
• Ensure QA activities are planned, resourced, and executed in accordance with the comprehensive testing strategy: integration testing, interface testing, user acceptance testing (UAT), and regression testing.

• Coordinate activities across operational stakeholders (Coding, CDI, HIM, Compliance, Billing, Operations, Clinical Staff Leaders), QA analysts and leads, interface developers, business systems analysts, trainers, vendors, and external partners.
• Audit project artifacts to ensure they are fit for purpose, including requirements, workflows, and testing outputs.

• Act as the primary point of coordination with CAC/CDI vendors, ensuring deliverables align with contractual scope, timelines, and dependencies.
• Communicate effectively with executive sponsors, clinical leaders, operational managers, and IT leadership regarding project status, risks, and decisions.
• Work closely with QA teams to align training scenarios with tested workflows, identify gaps, and reinforce correct handling of exceptions and edge cases.
• Participate in UAT as needed to ensure training materials reflect actual system behavior at acceptance.

• Coordinate go‑live readiness activities: training completion, data validation, cutover planning, and support coverage.
• Lead post go‑live stabilization efforts, ensuring clear issue triage processes, separation of training issues from system defects, and transition to steady‑state operational ownership.

• Bachelor's degree in business, information systems, healthcare administration, project management, or related field.
• 10+ years of experience managing healthcare IT or revenue cycle projects, including enterprise‑scale implementations.
• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification with strong mastery of project inputs, tools, techniques, and outputs.
• Direct experience…