Director Coding & CDI
The Director Coding & CDI is responsible for developing, managing, and improving CDI and coding operations software solutions, workflow optimization and data management across Franciscan which includes maximizing technology to increase efficiency and reduce costs. In this role you will partner with Franciscan Coding and CDI operational leaders to support and ensure their strategies, goals, initiatives, and outcomes.
Franciscan Health is a leading healthcare organization dedicated to providing exceptional patient care and promoting health and wellness in our community. Our mission is to ensure that every patient receives the highest quality of care through innovation, compassion, and excellence. With 12 ministries and access points across Indiana and Illinois, Franciscan Health is one of the largest Catholic health care systems in the Midwest. Franciscan Health takes pride in hiring coworkers who provide compassionate, comprehensive care for our patients and the communities we serve.
What You Can Expect
- Lead and direct a team supporting coding and CDI software solutions, workflows, change management.
- Direct and oversee the planning, selection, development, implementation, and on-going maintenance of the application solutions.
- Create and execute a road map for deliverables based on requirements, projects, and support functions.
- Collaborate with CDI, coding, information services, HIM division application solution teams to ensure optimal use of installed technology, identification of future needs, assistance with system updates and testing, prioritizing changes, and implementation of new technology.
- Oversee internal systems / applications / workflow process development to ensure efficiency and compliance while driving standardization in the use of the software applications and workflows.
- Serve on projects impacting coding and CDI to ensure that their needs and principles are applied to projects for compliance, sustainability, and optimal performance.
- Oversee operational change management as result of new or change to Franciscan business, regulatory requirements, coworker feedback, technology enhancements, customer needs, workflow optimization.
Qualifications
Bachelor's Degree Health Information management, healthcare, informatics, information technology or related field - RequiredMaster's Degree Health Information management, healthcare, informatics, information technology - Preferred7 years Previous management, leadership, or support position experience in Health Information Management (HIM), or clinical documentation integrity (CDI), or hospital coding, or physician office coding, or informatics, or information systems or revenue cycle. - Required5 years E H R experience - RequiredAbility to travel as needed for paid annual conferences and occasional vendor meetings.3 years Change management, performance improvement, project management or organizational development - PreferredRegistered Health Information Administrator (RHIA) - American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) - Upon Hire PreferredRegistered Health Information Technician (RHIT) - American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) - Upon Hire PreferredCertified Clinical Documentation Specialist (CCDS) - Association of Clinical Documentation Integrity Specialists (ACDIS) - Upon Hire PreferredTravel is required : Never or Rarely
Job Range : Director Coding and CDI Operations $142,810 - $164,693
Incentive : Not Applicable
Equal Opportunity Employer
It is the policy of Franciscan Alliance to provide equal employment to its employees and qualified applicants for employment as otherwise required by an applicable local, state or Federal law.
Franciscan Alliance reserves a Right of Conscience objection in the event local, state or Federal ordinances that violate its values and the free exercise of its religious rights.
Franciscan Alliance is committed to equal employment opportunity.