UnitedHealth Group Supervisor Coding – Remote Near Minneapolis, MN in Minneapolis, Minnesota

$1,000 SIGN ON BONUS FOR EXTERNAL APPLICANTS

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This position is responsible for maintaining, overseeing, and ensuring coding functions are performed in accordance with system-wide policies, procedures, and governing bodies. He/she monitors staff and department performance and productivity levels and proposes ways to improve effectiveness, efficiency, and productivity. Promotes effective use of data for quality assessment and improvement of customer services and clinical comes, creates and manages employee work schedules, provides feedback to employees through formal and informal coaching, and prepares and administers staff performance reviews, and partners with human resources in the recruiting and interview process.

You’ll enjoy the flexibility to telecommute* from anywhere within Minnesota as you take on some tough challenges.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Ensures functions performed in accordance with system wide policies, procedures, and governing organizations

• Defines individual and team goals

• Monitors staff and department performance and productivity levels and proposes ways to improve effectiveness, efficiency, and productivity

• Analyzes and identifies problem areas and adjust processes and staffing priorities

• Collaborates with the coding manager, coding director, clinic administrators, finance leaders, and health care providers to ensure quality data

• Promotes effective use of data for quality assessment and improvement of customer services and clinical outcomes

• Coordinates and provides billing and coding education to physicians, providers, coders, and management

• May monitor physician profiles to identify trends and areas of improvement

• Coordinates day-to-day support of staff and the department

• Creates and manages employee work schedules

• Provides feedback to employees through formal and informal coaching

• Prepares and administers staff performance reviews

• Analyzes performance metrics to locate and resolve issues and trends

• Partners with Human Resources in the recruiting and interview process

• Other duties as assigned

You’ll be rewarded and recognized for your performance in an environment that will challenge you and give you clear direction on what it takes to succeed in your role as well as provide development for other roles you may be interested in.

Required Qualifications:

• Professional coder certification with credentialing from AHIMA and/or AAPC (CCS, RHIA, RHIT, CIC, CPC, COC, CPC-P) to be maintained annually

• 1+ years of healthcare experience

• 1+ years of coding experience

• Must be 18 years or older

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience working with governmental compliance rules/regulations and coding guidelines

• Bachelor’s degree in Healthcare Administration, Health Information Technology, or related field

• Supervisory experience

*PLEASE NOTE The sign-on bonus is only available to external candidates. Candidates who are currently working for UnitedHealth Group, UnitedHealthcare or a related entity in a full time, part time or per diem basis (“Internal Candidates”) are not eligible to receive a sign on bonus.*

At UnitedHealth Group, our mission is to help people live healthier lives and make the health system work better for everyone. We believe everyone–of every race, gender, sexuality, age, location, and income–deserves the opportunity to live their healthiest life. Today, however, there are still far too many barriers to good health which are disproportionately experienced by people of color, historically marginalized groups, and those with lower incomes. We are committed to mitigating our impact on the environment and enabling and delivering equitable care that addresses health disparities and improves health outcomes — an enterprise priority reflected in our mission.

Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: UnitedHealth Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.

UnitedHealth Group is a drug – free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment.

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