Department: 13376 Enterprise Revenue Cycle - Individualized Clinician Services Primary Care and Medical Specialties
Status: Full time
Hours per week: 40
Schedule: Monday–Friday, 1st shift, 40 hours per week EST
Supports the Primary Care Southeast region.
This role serves as a remote clinician coding liaison, providing coding education, documentation feedback, trend analysis, and issue resolution. The position partners with physicians, APPs, operational leaders, coding teams, Clinical Informatics, Risk Adjustment, and Population Health to improve documentation accuracy, charge capture, reimbursement integrity, and compliance.
Key responsibilities
- Deliver proactive coding education through newsletters, scorecards, and presentations covering CPT, ICD-10-CM, HCPCS, risk adjustment, payer requirements, and rejection resolution.
- Lead onboarding and compliance training for employed physicians, APPs, residents, students, and locum tenens providers.
- Review clinician documentation and provide individualized feedback through spot checks and record reviews.
- Serve as the primary contact for coding questions and coordinate resolution of complex issues such as NCCI bundling and charge edits.
- Monitor Epic work queues to support timely charge submission and reduce denials.
- Collaborate across departments to improve documentation practices and system optimization.
- Participate in specialty and department meetings to identify trends and provide targeted education.
- Refine Epic documentation tools such as templates, diagnosis lists, SmartSets, and SmartPhrases.
- Promote ethical coding, continuous improvement, and compliance with Medicare, Medicaid, and AHIMA standards.
Requirements & Qualifications
Required certifications
- RHIA
- RHIT
- CCS
- CCS-P
- CPC
- Additional specialty credential preferred
Education
- Completion of advanced training through a recognized or accredited program, equivalent in scope and rigor to post-secondary education or equivalent knowledge
- High school diploma or GED required
Experience
- Typically requires 4 years of experience in expert-level professional coding
Knowledge and skills
- Advanced knowledge of ICD, CPT, and HCPCS coding guidelines
- Strong understanding of medical terminology, anatomy, and physiology
- Advanced knowledge of Epic and reporting tools
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and critical thinking skills
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office, electronic coding applications, and email
- Ability to manage multiple priorities, work independently, and meet deadlines
- Ability to collaborate effectively and support process improvement
Benefits & Perks
Benefits and compensation highlights
- Pay range: $35.50 to $53.25 per hour
- Paid time off
- Medical, dental, vision, life, short-term disability, and long-term disability coverage
- Flexible spending accounts
- Adoption assistance and paid parental leave
- Retirement plans with employer match
- Educational assistance program
- Potential premium pay and incentive pay for select positions
- Annual increases based on performance
Location
Charlotte, North Carolina, US
Employment Type
Full-time
Experience Level
Senior
Remote work allowed
Yes
Posted
1 month ago