Manager, Coding

City of Hope

Job posting number: #7279936 (Ref:10027416)

Posted: September 12, 2024

Salary / Pay Rate: $46.44 - $77.56 / hour

Application Deadline: Open Until Filled

Job Description

Join the transformative team at City of Hope, where we're changing lives and making a real difference in the fight against cancer, diabetes, and other life-threatening illnesses. City of Hope’s growing national system includes its Los Angeles campus, a network of clinical care locations across Southern California, a new cancer center in Orange County, California, and treatment facilities in Atlanta, Chicago and Phoenix. Our dedicated and compassionate employees are driven by a common mission: To deliver the cures of tomorrow to the people who need them today.

This role is responsible to assistant the Department Director in overseeing the operation of the Coding Department and support transcription services of all Community Practices locations. The Manager, Coding, is expected to act on behalf of the department director during her absence. In addition, the Manager, Coding is expected to provide leadership and direction to a staff of professional coders to ensure that coders are coding proficiently, accurately and completely to facilitate the billing and reimbursement process. In addition, the Manager, Coding is expected work together with the department director in assisting Compliance Manager to implement, coordinate and to monitor all coding and billing procedures to ensure the organization’s continuous compliance with the billing guidelines set forth by the CMS and Medi-Cal.

As a successful candidate, you will:

  • Responsible to assist the department director in overseeing the operation of the Coding Department/Transcription Services
  • Assist director in providing leadership and direction to a staff of all professional coders and medical transcriptionists
  • Assist director in developing, implementing and enforcing policies and procedures to ensure quality of coding function
  • Assist director in preparing annual budget plan for staff and equipment/system needs
  • Assist director in completion of annual employee performance appraisals
  • Assist director in recruiting new qualified coders
  • Assist director in conduct in-service training in coding and ensure that coders maintain proficient coding skills and keep abreast of all new changes in codes and coding guidelines set forth by regulatory agencies and conduct monthly employee performance incentive bonus review
  • Conduct medical records review and provide coding expertise to billers for claim appeals
  • Provide technical expertise and inputs to members of the Billing Manager team to improve quality of coding/billing operation and assure organization’s compliance to billing guidelines set forth by CMS
  • Perform surgical coding and assist as needed in other specialties coding
  • Assign surgical charge fee to new surgical procedures and submit charge to director for approval
  • Review and assist Information System Director in maintaining the coding system current in Pulse
  • Update charge tickets as needed to ensure coding and billing accuracy and to ensure continuous compliance with billing guidelines set forth by CMS and Medi-Cal
  • Act on behalf of department director during of absence and attend various committee meeting as needed.

Your qualifications should include:

  • Bachelor’s Degree (4 additional years of experience plus the minimum experience requirement may substitute for minimum education).
  • Minimum 5 years of experience with strong surgical and E/M coding.
  • Excellent knowledge in anatomy, physiology and medical terminology.
  • 1+ year of experience in a leadership capacity. Strong skills in following areas: Leadership and management, Communication.
  • Certified Coding Specialist (CCS) or Certified Professional Coder (CPC). American Health Information Association & California Health Information Assoc. Membership or American Academy of Professional Coders.

City of Hope is an equal opportunity employer. To learn more about our commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion, please click here. To learn more about our Comprehensive Benefits, please CLICK HERE.

Salary / Pay Rate Information:
Pay Rate: $46.44 - $77.56 / hour

The estimated pay scale represents the typical [salary/hourly] range City of Hope reasonably expects to pay for this position, with offers determined based on several factors which may include, but not be limited to, the candidate’s experience, expertise, skills, education, job scope, training, internal equity, geography/market, etc. This pay scale is subject to change from time to time.



City of Hope is a community of people characterized by our diversity of thought, background and approach, but tied together by our commitment to care for and cure those with cancer and other life-threatening diseases. The innovation that our diversity produces in the areas of research, treatment, philanthropy and education has made us national leaders in this fight. Our unique and diverse workforce provides us the ability to understand our patients' needs, deliver compassionate care and continue the quest for a cure for life-threatening diseases. At City of Hope, diversity and inclusion is a core value at the heart of our mission. We strive to create an inclusive workplace environment that engages all of our employees and provides them with opportunities to develop and grow, both personally and professionally. Each day brings an opportunity to strengthen our work, leverage our different perspectives and improve our patients’ experiences by learning from others. Diversity and inclusion is about much more than policies and campaigns. It is an integral part of who we are as an institution, how we operate and how we see our future.


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Job posting number:#7279936 (Ref:10027416)
Application Deadline:Open Until Filled
Employer Location:City of Hope
Duarte,California
United States
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