Director Procedural Coding & Anesthesia

Director Of Procedural And Anesthesia Coding

At Henry Ford Health, precision and integrity in coding are essential to delivering high-quality care and ensuring the financial strength of our system. As the Director of Procedural and Anesthesia Coding, you'll set the strategy and lead system-wide efforts to optimize coding accuracy, compliance, and reimbursement. Overseeing a team of skilled professionals, you'll serve as the subject matter expert in procedural and anesthesia codingdriving best practices, advancing automation, and partnering with clinical, HIM, CDI, and revenue cycle leaders to achieve excellence. This is an opportunity to shape the future of coding across a nationally recognized health system, where innovation, collaboration, and impact come together.

Principal Duties & Responsibilities

Strategic Leadership & Oversight

• Provide system-wide leadership for procedural and anesthesia coding, ensuring accuracy, compliance, and consistency across hospitals.
• Establish and communicate long- and short-term strategic goals aligned with Henry Ford Health's mission, revenue cycle objectives, and quality standards.
• Lead consolidation and integration of coding departments into a single, standardized organization with consistent processes, policies, and technology.

Operational Excellence & Performance Management

Collaboration & Clinical Partnerships

Innovation, Technology & Vendor Management

Team Development & Financial Management

Compliance, Quality Assurance & External Representation

Education / Experience Required :

Bachelor's degree in Health Information Management, Accounting, Business Administration, Finance, or other business-related field, required.

Master's degree in a business or a health administration related field, preferred.

Five (5) years management experience required with director level, preferred.

Knowledge of best practices related to revenue cycle operations.

Experience at a large, complex, integrated healthcare organization, preferred.

Experience with insurance billing, patient accounting systems and other related applications, preferred.

Communication skills and the ability to interact effectively with staff.

Ability to manage, coordinates, and leads simultaneously.

Ability to estimate time frames and meet projected deadlines.

Ability to work with a variety of individuals in executive, managerial and staff level positions.

Ability to work independently.

Ability to understand and lead change.

Goal oriented, exceptional interpersonal skills, change management and political skill.

Certifications / Licensures Required :

CPC, CCS, CCS-P, RHIT or RHIA, preferred.

Additional Information :

Organization : Corporate Services

Department : Revenue Cycle Administration

Shift : Day Job

Union Code : Not Applicable

Additional Details This posting represents the major duties, responsibilities, and authorities of this job, and is not intended to be a complete list of all tasks and functions. It should be understood, therefore, that incumbents may be asked to perform job-related duties beyond those explicitly described above.

Overview Henry Ford Health partners with millions of people on their health journey, across Michigan and around the world. We offer a full continuum of services from primary and preventative care to complex and specialty care, health insurance, a full suite of home health offerings, virtual care, pharmacy, eye care and other health care retail. With former Ascension southeast Michigan and Flint region locations now part of our team, Henry Ford's care is available in 13 hospitals and hundreds of ambulatory care locations. Based in Detroit, Henry Ford is one of the nation's most respected academic medical centers and is leading the Future of Health : Detroit, a $3 billion investment anchored by a reimagined Henry Ford academic healthcare campus.

Benefits

The health and overall well-being of our team members is our priority. That's why we offer support in the various components of our team's well-being : physical, emotional, social, financial and spiritual. Our Total Rewards program includes competitive health plan options, with three consumer-driven health plans (CDHPs), a PPO plan and an HMO plan. Our team members enjoy a number of additional benefits, ranging from dental and eye care coverage to tuition assistance, family forming benefits, discounts to dozens of businesses and more. Employees classified as contingent status are not eligible for benefits.

Equal Employment Opportunity / Affirmative Action Employer Henry Ford Health is committed to the hiring, advancement and fair treatment of all individuals without regard to race, color, creed, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability, veteran status, size, height, weight, marital status, family status, gender identity, sexual orientation, and genetic information, or any other protected status in accordance with applicable federal and state laws.