Coding Manager

Description

Take on a leadership role within UCLA Health's centralized
Medical Coding function, supporting inpatient, outpatient, emergency
department, and observation coding services across Ronald Reagan, Santa Monica,
West Valley and Neuropsychiatric Hospitals. In this role, you will oversee
daily coding operations, ensure compliance with national coding standards and
regulatory requirements, and lead teams responsible for maintaining
productivity, quality, and data integrity across the enterprise.

You will play a key role in supporting revenue cycle
performance, regulatory compliance, audit readiness, and continuous improvement
initiatives while guiding and developing a large, diverse coding workforce.

In this role, you will:

• Oversee
  daily operations for inpatient, outpatient, emergency department, and
  observation coding services, ensuring productivity and quality standards
  are met to support DNFB and revenue cycle goals.
• Lead,
  coach, and evaluate represented and non-represented coding staff,
  contractors, and per diem coders, including performance monitoring,
  mentoring, and professional development.
• Ensure
  coding practices align with national guidelines, payer requirements, and
  state and federal regulatory standards, including CMS and Joint Commission
  requirements.
• Develop,
  implement, and maintain coding compliance programs, audit methodologies,
  education plans, and performance improvement initiatives.
• Monitor,
  analyze, and report coding metrics, dashboards, and trends; identify
  risks, improvement opportunities, and system-wide impacts.
• Partner
  with multidisciplinary teams including Patient Business Services, Revenue
  Integrity, CDI, Compliance, Managed Care, Decision Support, and Revenue
  Cycle leadership to resolve issues and support enterprise initiatives.
• Support
  audits, regulatory inquiries, system implementations, and ongoing
  optimization of electronic coding, quality, and productivity tools.

Salary Range: $95,400 - $208,300 annually

We're looking for an experienced and strategic coding leader
with:

• Required: 5-7 years of progressive supervisory experience in medical coding,
  including management of inpatient and outpatient coding operations.
• Required: CCS; RHIA/RHIT certification preferred.
• Bachelor's
  degree preferred.
• Demonstrated
  expertise in CPT, HCPCS, ICD-10-CM/PCS, MS-DRG, APR-DRG, APCs, UB-04
  revenue codes, and integrated healthcare coding environments.
• Proven
  ability to manage large, complex coding teams while maintaining quality,
  productivity, and compliance standards.
• Strong
  knowledge of State of California and federal regulatory requirements
  governing coding and billing.
• Experience
  developing compliance programs, audit processes, education plans, and
  performance improvement strategies.
• Effective
  communication, leadership, and collaboration skills across clinical,
  operational, and administrative teams.