Manage the Coding team's daily operations in accordance with internal policies, procedures and Standard Operating Procedures to maintain appropriate charge log.

* Manage, plan, organize, monitor, and evaluate outpatient functions to ensure effective and efficient
operations and compliance with established standards, rules, and regulations.
* Serve as a professional coding subject matter expert, and utilizes critical thinking to analyze and
evaluate documentation issues with consultation from Clinical staff and Corporate Compliance as
needed.
* Oversee the day-to-day management of coding operations for physician and advance practice provider
services.
* Manage charge lag and coding volumes to facilitate the billing process within established timeframes
across the health system.
* Identify and ensure accurate assignment of ICD-10 diagnostic codes and CPT-4 procedure codes to
outpatient, inpatient, ambulatory and general surgery, observation and other professional service
encounters for the purpose of reimbursement, research and compliance with federal and state
regulations.
* Identify coding risks and/or client issues and problems proactively and make appropriate
recommendations.
* Maintain appropriate coverage and associate workload. Engage contract coders and/or overtime as
needed to maintain appropriate turnaround times.
* Manage coding productivity and quality reports for assigned medical groups and specialties.
* Work collaboratively with ancillary departments, pathology, and other medical departments to ensure
accurate documentation to achieve optimal coding accuracy and proficiency accuracy.

* Communicate with various departments within the medical groups regarding coding and billing issues
within assigned areas of oversight.
* Serve as a coding liaison expert to analyze and evaluate documentation issues in collaboration with the
medical and clinical staff as needed.
* Participate in corporate and local medical group meetings as needed to support the professional billing
coding function.
* Develops and implements appropriate coding queries.
* Reviews questions and provide guidance to staff regarding employee relation matters.
* Ensure compliance with coding industry standards of ethical coding and coding compliance guidelines.
* Demonstrate support and compliance with University of Maryland Medical System mission, vision,
values statement, goals, objectives, and policies.
* Attend seminars and in-services as required to remain current on pertinent issues and trends.
* Foster a culture of collaboration, problem solving, innovation, continuous learning, and a one team
mindset.
* Mentor staff in both technical and soft skills to craft a team of highly competent, consistent, thoughtful,
and customer-centric experts.
* Evaluate personnel effectiveness and develop/implement training programs to improve performance.
* Perform managerial functions including hiring, discipline, training and development, and preparing
and reviewing performance reviews in accordance with UMMS policies and procedures.
* Perform other duties as assigned