Medical Records Manager

The Opportunity

Huron helps its clients drive growth, enhance performance and sustain leadership in the markets they serve. We help healthcare organizations build innovation capabilities and accelerate key growth initiatives, enabling organizations to own the future, instead of being disrupted by it. Together, we empower clients to create sustainable growth, optimize internal processes and deliver better consumer outcomes.

Health systems, hospitals and medical clinics are under immense pressure to improve clinical outcomes and reduce the cost of providing patient care. Investing in new partnerships, clinical services and technology is not enough to create meaningful and substantive change. To succeed long-term, healthcare organizations must empower leaders, clinicians, employees, affiliates and communities to build cultures that foster innovation to achieve the best outcomes for patients.

Joining the Huron team means you'll help our clients evolve and adapt to the rapidly changing healthcare environment and optimize existing business operations, improve clinical outcomes, create a more consumer-centric healthcare experience, and drive physician, patient and employee engagement across the enterprise.

Join our team as the expert you are now and create your future.

Position Summary

The HIM Manager monitors compliance with key HIM indicators to maintain enterprise objectives. Set and enforce policies, procedures, and guidelines ensuring timely and accurate operations. Collaborate with a multidisciplinary team to develop and implement standards for data content, data mapping, and documentation within the organization to support quality data and accurate coding for payment purposes. Investigate issues surrounding data variability to quantify their impact and identify solutions

Monitor data and metric reports and react appropriately to ensure departmental goals are achieved

Contribute to design, implementation, training, and ongoing evaluation of Electronic Health Records (EHR) which support collection of high-quality data at the point of care. Lead abstracting and retrieval of medical data used for evaluation, planning or research in health care and health-related programs

Seek to understand disagreements, ensure all perspectives are heard and facilitate a plan for resolution. Delegate the work appropriately, provide clear expectations and follow up to ensure progress and overcome roadblocks. Identify associates and team priorities based on business direction and adjust when needed. Lead by example and share knowledge and experiences with associates and team. Create a respectful work environment where you advocate for your team, create accountability and recognize their accomplishments. Provide timely feedback to encourage success, ensure accountability, and connect opportunities for your associates' development. Identify the right talent to achieve the desired results. Promote and build a diverse cohesive team to accomplish objectives and align associates' skills to fill gaps.

DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Coordinate with the HIM team in the operations of daily job responsibilities

• Develop, recommend, and oversee the implementation and administration of policies and procedures of respective area

• Evaluate process and procedures and coordinate with the management team to ensure efficient areas of focus and adhere to federal and local laws and regulations

• Demonstrate, through plans and actions, a consistent standard of excellence to which all department work is expected to conform

• Focus on continuous improvement working with the Senior Manager and respective teams Managers across the Health System with a goal of delivering the highest degree of quality service possible

• Provide support for Human Resource guidance

• Complete, review, manage and monitor department budget

• Directs and leads the patient access team in the daily operations

• Performs other duties as assigned

REQURIED SKILLS

• Effective and efficient organization and planning skills with the proven ability to manage complex multi-workstream performance improvement projects or multiple concurrent client engagements, while delegating and overseeing the work of junior team members

• Proven analytical and critical thinking skills required to synthesize complex data sets and interpret qualitative and quantitative data and trends to implement recommendations resulting in measurable performance improvement and successful organizational change

• Impactful and professional written and verbal communication set clear project team direction, develop key deliverables, escalate risks, and influence key stakeholders inclusive of client and internal senior leadership

• Ability to collaborate with team members and client counterparts to understand business challenges, adapt implementation methodologies and approaches to ensure results align with client's business objectives

• Team leadership experience including building talent, training, supervising, coaching/mentoring, and performance management

...Less

Qualifications

Required

• U.S. work authorization is required

• BA/BS in Nursing with certifications in one of the following: CCDS, CPHQ, CCS

• Specialized skills in one or more of the following areas: Clinical Documentation Improvement, Case - - Management and HIM/Coding

• A minimum of 5 years of relevant experience in a project-based operations performance improvement role within a hospital/clinical setting hospital and/or consulting firm environment focused on healthcare provider operations and/or process re-engineering projects

• Minimum 1 year of experience managing major projects for large, complex healthcare organizations with multiple stakeholders

• Willingness and ability to travel every week (Monday-Thursday)

Posting Category

Healthcare

Opportunity Type

Regular

Country

United States of America

At Huron, we're redefining what a consulting organization can be. We go beyond advice to deliver results that last. We inherit our client's challenges as if they were our own. We help them transform for the future. We advocate. We make a difference. And we intelligently, passionately, relentlessly do great work...together.

Are you the kind of person who stands ready to jump in, roll up your sleeves and transform ideas into action? Then come discover Huron.

Whether you have years of experience or come right out of college, we invite you to explore our many opportunities. Find out how you can use your talents and develop your skills to make an impact immediately. Learn about how our culture and values provide you with the kind of environment that invites new ideas and innovation. Come see how we collaborate with each other in a culture of learning, coaching, diversity and inclusion. And hear about our unwavering commitment to make a difference in partnership with our clients, shareholders, communities and colleagues.

Huron Consulting Group offers a competitive compensation and benefits package including medical, dental, and vision coverage to employees and dependents; a 401(k) plan with a generous employer match; an employee stock purchase plan; a generous Paid Time Off policy; and paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Our Wellness Program supports employee total well-being by providing free annual health screenings and coaching, bank at work, and on-site workshops, as well as ongoing programs recognizing major events in the lives of our employees throughout the year. All benefits and programs are subject to applicable eligibility requirements.

Huron is fully committed to providing equal employment opportunity to job applicants and employees in recruitment, hiring, employment, compensation, benefits, promotions, transfers, training, and all other terms and conditions of employment. Huron will not discriminate on the basis of age, race, color, gender, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy, national origin, religion, veteran status, physical or mental disability, genetic information, creed, citizenship or any other status protected by laws or regulations in the locations where we do business. We endeavor to maintain a drug-free workplace.