Healthcare Managed Services - System Coding Leader

Healthcare Managed Services - System Coding Leader

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.

• Executes enterprise-wide coding strategy and innovation initiatives across domestic and international HMS clients
• Executes the HMS Coding Operations objectives, responsibilities, and initiatives
• Leads cross‑functional steering committees to align coding operations with clinical, financial and IT goals
• Makes key operational decisions independently and effectively prioritizes projects
• Responsible for fiscal oversight strategic direction of annual operating budget
• Establishes quarterly goals and works with both the domestic and international business offices and HMS leadership teams to ensure they are achieved
• Analyzes, interprets, and summarizes pertinent coding operations data components, and monitors performance against Key Performance Indicators
• Develops and implements enterprise-wide performance dashboards
• Identifies issues, risks, barriers, and opportunities for improvement related to Huron Coding Support Services along with both the domestic and international business office responsibilities processes, service level agreements, technology, and people
• Manages a cohort of Coding Operations Managers and clients (across HMS), providing direction and removing barriers
• Provides coaching, development, and mentorship to direct reports and other subordinates
• Strategic and operational oversight for recruitment and retention of coders
• Establishes and maintains strong relationships with both domestic and international service center stakeholders
• Establishes systems and processes to ensure the quality and compliance of all coding activities
• Ensures coding productivity and compliance with expected coding productivity standards
• Develops HMS system level organizational structure, policies and procedures, and committee structure to support Mid Revenue Cycle Coding
• Implements cost‑effective system wide initiatives such as Artificial Intelligence
• Drives digital transformation through AI, automation, and predictive analytics to optimize coding workflows
• Supports enterprise-wide change management and workforce transformation initiatives
• Coding Operational Performance Support across all Huron Managed Services as well as the International Business Office:
  • Works with client function’s directors/managers to determine the appropriate, team‑/function‑specific key performance indicators to monitor regularly
  • Develops goals for those key performance indicators
  • Identifies root causes preventing the achievement of any goals
  • Recognizes and implements action items necessary to resolve root causes
  • Facilitates sustained resolution of root causes
  • Implements necessary communication across and outside of function’s teams to promote performance improvement
  • Collaborates with function leadership to monitor and evaluate front‑line staff performance against established productivity, quality, and operational standards
• Management & Meeting Oversight:
  • Oversees key client function meetings
  • Confirms that key meetings are appropriately focused and effective and holds management team accountable for timely completion of identified action items
  • If such a meeting is not already in place, establishes a recurring meeting with all directors/managers to tackle barriers, discuss risks, and celebrate successes
  • Summarizes key meeting outcomes…