Coding Training Manager (Remote)

Job Title: Coding Training Manager (Remote)

Work Location: Pafford Medical Services, Inc. - Oklahoma City

Division/Department: PMBS

Reports To: Director of Pafford Medical Billing Services

• Full-Time
• Nonexempt
  
  

Job Description

Under general direction, this position supervises the daily coding and training functions for Pafford Medical Billing

Services.

Essential Duties And Responsibilities

• Coordinates and ensures adherence to quality standards, deadlines, and proper procedures of work performed by coding employees.
• Fosters a sense of teamwork and motivates team to perform assigned functions and achieve objectives.
• Maintains a working knowledge of the department’s billing system software applications, including all reporting, billing, and administrative functions.
• Creates and maintains billing policies and procedures by partnering with the Director.
• Provides account oversight as required for each payer type; and completes Medicare, Medicaid, and insurance reviews.
• Identifies billing trends and makes necessary system changes.
• Develops, maintains, and facilitates training on any necessary regulatory changes affecting the department’s billing functions. Identifies training needs of staff and assigns staff to participate in relevant training.
  
  

Qualifications

• Knowledge of Medicare and Medicaid regulations as they pertain to ambulance billing.
• Knowledge of and complete and thorough understanding of HIPAA.
• Knowledge of health care financial management systems and processes.
• Knowledge of medical, insurance, and healthcare terminology, industry regulations, and requirements.
• Knowledge of the International Certification of Disease codes for medical impressions and ambulance transportation codes.
• Knowledge of complicated multi-system medical terminology and general anatomy.
• Knowledge of coding audits and Federal, State, and Local rules and regulations regarding medical claims.
• Knowledge of supervisory and managerial techniques and processes.
• Skill in oral and written communications.
  
  

Education And Experience Requirements

• Preferred: Certified Ambulance Coder (CAC) credential.
• In lieu of certification, an associate degree or higher is preferred.
• Minimum of seven (7) years of experience coding ambulance claims.
  
  

Other Requirements

• This is a remote position; however, the employee must be available to travel to Oklahoma City, OK, or Hope, AR, for at least one week each month.
• Initial training will be conducted onsite at the Oklahoma City office for the first two weeks following hire.
• Must have access to reliable high-speed internet with a minimum download speed of 20 Mbps.
• Candidate must reside in Arkansas, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Tennessee, or Texas. Preference will be given to candidates located in the Central Time Zone.
  
  

Physical Requirements:

• Ability to safely and successfully perform the essential job functions consistent with the ADA, FMLA and other federal, state and local standards, including meeting qualitative and/or quantitative productivity standards.
• Ability to maintain regular, punctual attendance consistent with the ADA, FMLA and other federal, state and local standards.
• The employee may occasionally be required to lift and/or move up to 20 pounds.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.
• Work may require sitting, lifting, stooping, bending, stretching, walking, standing, pushing, pulling, reaching, and other physical exertion.
• Must be able to talk, listen and speak clearly on telephone.
• Must possess visual acuity to prepare and analyze data and figures, operate a computer terminal, and operate a motor vehicle.
  
  

Travel Time: Minimum One Week a Month

NOTE: The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by the

person assigned to this job. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, skills and

physical demands required of personnel so classified.