Coding Integrity Specialist

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Scheduled Weekly

Hours:

40.

We’re not just filling positions, we’re building careers. At Emplify Health, we care for our teams, while they care for their communities. Whether you are just starting out or looking for a change, Emplify Health supports you now and into the future. Join us and find out how a little empathy changes everything.

We are hiring for a Coding Integrity Specialist! Emplify Health by Gundersen is seeking a highly detail-oriented and analytical individual to support coding quality, compliance, and education across our organization. This role plays a key part in ensuring accurate and compliant coding practices through auditing, reporting, and collaboration with coding, clinical, and revenue cycle teams.

• 1.0 FTE (40 hours weekly)
• Full-time Shift: Monday–Friday, standard business hours
• Remote eligible (Must reside in WI, IA, or MN) - first day of work must be on-site in La Crosse, WI
• Department:
  Clinical Documentation Improvement / Coding Integrity

• Conduct coding audits to ensure compliance with coding guidelines, payer requirements, and regulatory standards
• Provide education and feedback to coding staff and leadership based on audit findings
• Monitor documentation and coding practices to identify improvement opportunities for providers and coders
• Collaborate with Revenue Cycle, Coding leadership, and Clinical Documentation teams on process improvements and regulatory updates
• Manage multiple audit projects, reporting, and quality improvement initiatives

• Starting wage of $25.38/hr + more for experience!
• Comprehensive healthcare and retirement benefits
• Opportunity to work independently while collaborating with system-wide teams
• Ongoing learning and development in coding quality, compliance, and auditing
• Work/life balance in a mission-driven healthcare organization

• Required:
  
  Associate degree in Health Information Management or related field OR High School Diploma/equivalent with a coding certification
• 5-7 years of healthcare coding experience (hospital or multi-specialty clinic setting)
• One of the following certifications: RHIA, RHIT, CCS, CCS-P, CPC, or CCA

Emplify Health, a partnership of Bellin Health and Gundersen Health System, is a leading not-for-profit, patient-centered healthcare network based in Green Bay and La Crosse, Wisconsin. With 11 hospitals and over 100 clinics, we serve 67 cities across Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota, and Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Join us in making a meaningful difference in the lives of our patients and communities.

We inspire your best life by relentlessly caring, learning and innovating. This is our purpose. Together with our values - belonging, respect, excellence, accountability, teamwork and humility - our pillars set our foundation and our future.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Around here, loving your job is part of the job. Join our mission in changing healthcare while finding a career you’ll love! Gundersen Health System offers a proud, local history spanning more than 100 years. Our personalized patient care model is only the beginning of what you will experience as we foster population health transformation and innovation to serve our communities and you.

We've made it a priority to enrich the lives of our employees as they find a career they love. Using each employee’s unique talents and passions, Gundersen is committed to delivering exceptional patient and family-centered care to the communities we serve. You can be part of an exciting, highly adaptable and mission-driven organization with a work environment that supports you personally and professionally and a work culture where you are valued and…