Job Description:

The Senior Director of HIM (Health Information Management) holds a pivotal role in driving strategic, operational, and financial success across the integrated health system, including vendor-supported services. The leader ensures coding practices are accurate, compliant with regulations, and standardized across all facilities, directly impacting the system's financial health, integrity, quality reputation and reducing regulatory risk. This leader is an experienced leader, expert consultant, and collaborative liaison across departments. This role requires strategic leadership, exceptional analytical skills, and the ability to drive continuous improvement in HIM Coding performance. This position partners with other senior leaders across the organization and external vendors to ensure alignment with organizational and strategic goals.



Benefits are one of the ways we encourage health for you and your family. Our generous package includes medical, dental, and vision coverage. But health is more than a well-working body: it encompasses body, mind, and spiritual well-being. To that end, we’ve launched a Healthy Living program to address your holistic health. Healthy Living includes financial incentives, digital tools, tobacco cessation, classes, counseling, and paid time off. We also offer financial wellness tools and retirement planning. 

With this position, you are eligible to participate in an annual pay-for-performance opportunity (“AP4P”). This plan enables Intermountain Health to provide leaders with an additional performance compensation opportunity. The AP4P opportunities are calculated as a percentage of your base salary. Awards are paid out based on attainment of selected Intermountain Health Board-approved goals. 

This position will allow you to work in a fully remote / work from home capacity, with required periodic travel to Broomfield, Colorado.

To show our commitment to you and assist with your transition into our organization, we may offer a sign-on and/or a relocation bonus when applicable. 

As the Senior Director of Hospital Coding, you will:

Cultivate exceptional relationships and communication with diverse stakeholders including across revenue cycle, executive leaders, clinical teams, medical staff and DTS.

This position requires a deep knowledge of industry’s best practices and expertise with process improvement to enhance coding quality, compliance and efficiency. 

Lead a large team of coding professionals, provide mentorship and guidance, and foster a culture of collaboration and excellence.

Identify and implement new technology or identify enhancements to existing technology to drive performance improvement, efficiency and/or to improve the patient/provider/caregiver experience.

Identify, lead and drive quality and performance improvement initiatives. Lead the team to establish mechanisms to design, measure, maintain, and improve the performance and quality of department’s services. 

Ensure compliance with applicable regulatory guidelines and established departmental policies and procedures, objectives, quality assurance program, safety, environmental and infection control standards. 

Develop action plans in line with the organization's strategic initiatives and goals.

Utilize advanced analytical skills to interpret coded data and financial management metrics, presenting complex information in an understandable manner for informed decision-making.

Exemplify a servant leadership approach, effectively communicating and resolving conflicts sometimes in high emotion situations while maintaining a high level of collaboration and service.

Collaborate with other senior leaders to develop and implement goals and objectives.

Create and manage the annual operating budget. Conduct return on investment analyses on capital expenditures and identifies various opportunities for savings and revenue growth. Analyze budget variances while implementing improvement initiatives.

Skills

Strategy Developer and Executer

Regulatory Compliance

Coding and Billing

Revenue Cycle

Data Driven

Industry Standards

Leadership

Effective Communicator & Collaborator

Continuous improvement/Automation

Qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree in health information management or healthcare administration, or related field from an accredited institution is required.  Education is verified.

Demonstrated experience in progressive leadership roles in a large healthcare organization with competency in developing creative, efficient and effective solutions to complex business challenges.

Demonstrates comprehensive understanding of hospital coding and the impacts of coded data including reimbursement and quality.

Demonstrates extensive knowledge of the current healthcare environment and trends, technologies, data management systems, policies, and regulations related to Coding and HIM with an ability to effectively influence change and manage the change process. 

Demonstrates excellent interpersonal, organizational, presentation, verbal and written communication skills.

Demonstrates advanced knowledge of information systems, vendor contracting, patient accounting processes, including billing, collections, and reimbursement analysis.

Demonstrated ability to connect with leaders across many levels of the organization.

Demonstrated success leading a team of highly engaged and high performing Coding professionals

Demonstrated proficiency utilizing Microsoft office tools.

Preferred

Master’s degree in healthcare administration or related field from an accredited institution.  Education is verified.

Ten (10) years of progressive HIM leadership experience.

AHIMA Certification (RHIA or CCS).

Epic experience.

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Physical Requirements:

Physical Requirements

Ongoing need for caregiver to see and read information, documents, monitors, identify equipment and supplies, and be able to assess customer needs.Frequent interactions with providers, colleagues, customers, patients/clients, and visitors that require caregiver to verbally communicate as well as hear and understand spoken information, needs, and issues quickly and accurately.Manual dexterity of hands and fingers to manipulate complex and delicate equipment with precision and accuracy. This includes frequent computer use for typing, accessing needed information, etc.May have the same physical requirements as those of clinical or patient care jobs, when the leader takes clinical shifts.For roles requiring driving: Expected to drive a vehicle which requires sitting, seeing and reading signs, traffic signals, and other vehicles.

Location:

Peaks Regional Office

Work City:

Broomfield

Work State:

Colorado

Scheduled Weekly Hours:

40

The hourly range for this position is listed below. Actual hourly rate dependent upon experience. 

$77.50 - $119.68

We care about your well-being – mind, body, and spirit – which is why we provide our caregivers a generous benefits package that covers a wide range of programs to foster a sustainable culture of wellness that encompasses living healthy, happy, secure, connected, and engaged.

Learn more about our comprehensive benefits package here.

Intermountain Health is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.

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