Coding Manager

Medical Coding Leadership Role

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

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

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