Revenue Cycle Senior Director, Coding & Revenue Integrity

• Job Type: Officer of Administration
• Hours Per Week: 35
• Standard
  
  Work Schedule:
  
  Core business hours Monday-Friday, schedules vary
• Building:
  Fort Lee, NJ
• Salary Range: $150,000 - $275,000

The salary of the finalist selected for this role will be set based on a variety of factors, including but not limited to departmental budgets, qualifications, experience, education, licenses, specialty, and training. The above hiring range represents the University’s good faith and reasonable estimate of the range of possible compensation at the time of posting.

Reporting to the Chief Revenue Cycle Officer, the Senior Director of Coding & Revenue Integrity serves as a strategic leader overseeing all medical coding, charge capture, and revenue integrity functions within the department, ensuring accurate, compliant, and timely medical coding aligned with institutional policies and payer guidelines.

This leadership role provides strategic direction, operational leadership, and compliance oversight to ensure accurate, efficient, and compliant coding operations that align with institutional objectives, regulatory requirements, and payer guidelines.

The Senior Director provides strategic oversight to ensure the delivery of efficient, accurate, and compliant coding services across a broad range of departments supported by the Centralized Clinical Revenue Office.

The role encompasses the development of innovative solutions, implementation of strategic initiatives that drive revenue cycle optimization for Columbia Doctors, and efficient management of coding operations and revenue integrity, including automation, analytics, workflow enhancements.

As a senior member of the CRO Revenue Cycle Management team, the incumbent will work to develop efficient processes and business solutions and promote best practice revenue cycle management within Columbia Doctors.

• Lead and direct a large, centralized business office unit that manages coding and revenue integrity, ensuring operational efficiency and compliance with organizational standards, including contracted vendors.
• The Director leads a large coding team, including coders and managers, and collaborates closely with clinical, Billing Compliance, and other CUIMC offices to optimize coding performance and revenue integrity.
• Implement standardized coding processes, policies, and quality controls to ensure compliant and optimal coding.
• Leads the oversight and optimization of coding and revenue integrity operations, driving performance improvements and ensuring alignment with organizational goals, compliance standards, and financial objectives.
• Collaborates closely with CRO directors and department liaisons on coding and revenue integrity matters, serving as the leadership subject matter expert to guide best practices and resolve complex issues.
• Evaluates third-party coding options for cost effectiveness without losing coding accuracy. For third-party vendors engaged in coding, maintain relationship and oversight of results to ensure compliant, optimal coding.
• Evaluate productivity and quality across teams, using data-driven methods to set performance benchmarks, optimize workflows, and implement quality control measures. Establish guidelines for prioritizing tasks and set performance standards to meet regulatory and compliance requirements.
• Oversees productivity and quality of team and staff performance, including direct supervision of management team members.
• Determines guidelines for prioritizing work activities. Evaluate workflow effectiveness and performance. Assess QI metrics, implement quality, and audit control measures to achieve compliance. Evaluate interventions to achieve optimum efficiency. Makes policy and/or process recommendations as needed.
• Leads and/or participates in various revenue cycle initiatives to maximize reimbursement and collections. Represents Columbia at task forces and committees. Leverages combined network resources to support Revenue Cycle’s programs and priorities in achieving organization-wide results.
• Applies expertise and strategic thinking to revenue cycle platforms and workflows to maximize the organization’s coding…