Coding Auditor – Ambulatory​/Professional Coding​/Profee

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.

Joining the Huron team means you’ll help our clients evolve and adapt to the rapidly changing healthcare environment and optimize existing business operations, improve clinical outcomes, create a more consumer‑centric healthcare experience, and drive physician, patient and employee engagement across the enterprise.

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.

Joining the Huron team means you’ll help our clients evolve and adapt to the rapidly changing healthcare environment and optimize existing business operations, improve clinical outcomes, create a more consumer‑centric healthcare experience, and drive physician, patient and employee engagement across the enterprise.

The Coding Auditor – ambulatory/professional coding/profee will be responsible for auditing of coders and coding auditors to ensure coding accuracy standards are met. This role requires frequent and effective communication via phone, email, and instant messaging with various client teams and payers. The Coding Auditor – ambulatory/professional coding/profee will report to the Huron Managed Services Domestic Coding team.

• Knows, understands, incorporates, and demonstrates Huron’s Vision, and Values in behaviors, practices, and decisions.
• Coding Auditor
• Responsible for the auditing of coders and/or “audit the auditors” to ensure coding accuracy of a minimum of 95% is met.
• Perform quality checks/audits on visits coded as per client SOPs.
• Perform calibration audits.
• Suggest improvements and schedule calibration sessions with offshore team counterparts and leaders.
• May assist in preparing audit reports, share direct feedback to coders and auditors on areas of opportunity, participate in client interactions and internal stakeholder meetings.
• Firm understanding of the clinical documentation guidelines.
• Monitor compliance of coding guidelines and ensure errors are identified during audits are corrected as appropriate, and corrective action is initiated before the claim is rebilled to the insurance.
• Conduct analysis and present summary of findings to leadership in a clear, concise, convincing, and actionable format.
• Utilizes encoder software applications, which includes all applicable online tools and references.
• Assigns appropriate code(s) by utilizing coding guidelines established by:
• The Centers for Disease Control (CDC), ICD-CM Official Coding Guidelines for Coding and Reporting, Centers for Medicare/Medicaid Services…