Job Description

At Henry Ford Health, precision and integrity in coding are essential to delivering high-quality care and ensuring the financial strength of our system. As the Director of Procedural and Anesthesia Coding, you'll set the strategy and lead system-wide efforts to optimize coding accuracy, compliance, and reimbursement. Overseeing a team of skilled professionals, you'll serve as the subject matter expert in procedural and anesthesia coding--driving best practices, advancing automation, and partnering with clinical, HIM, CDI, and revenue cycle leaders to achieve excellence. This is an opportunity to shape the future of coding across a nationally recognized health system, where innovation, collaboration, and impact come together

PRINCIPLE DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES

Strategic Leadership & Oversight

Provide system-wide leadership for procedural and anesthesia coding, ensuring accuracy, compliance, and consistency across hospitals. Establish and communicate long- and short-term strategic goals aligned with Henry Ford Health's mission, revenue cycle objectives, and quality standards. Lead consolidation and integration of coding departments into a single, standardized organization with consistent processes, policies, and technology.

Operational Excellence & Performance Management

Oversee coding and charge capture functions, including coding and charge entry, edit resolution, revenue recovery, and timely posting of services. Design, implement, and maintain coding outcome scorecards, benchmarking, and business intelligence to measure performance and identify improvement opportunities. Monitor productivity, cycle times, and workflows; direct process improvements to close gaps and optimize resources. Maintain revenue cycle accountability to business units and ensure coding workflows support financial performance

Collaboration & Clinical Partnerships

Partner with service line leaders, physicians, CDI, HIM, compliance, and revenue cycle teams to align documentation, coding, and charge capture practices. Manage CPT/ICD-10 code usage and proactively communicate trends and coding guidance to providers to maximize accurate reimbursement. Support initiatives for quality reporting, risk adjustment, provider education, and regulatory compliance.

Innovation, Technology & Vendor Management

Leverage automation, Epic-based workflows, and advanced tools (e.g., machine-learning prioritization engines) to streamline operations and prioritize workload. Work closely with IT on system selection, testing, installation, transition planning, and staff education to ensure high-quality data integrity and user adoption. Create and manage strategic partnerships with onshore/offshore vendors and third-party systems; monitor vendor performance with defined metrics and monthly benchmarking.

Team Development & Financial Management

Recruit, develop, and mentor coding leaders and staff to build a high-performing, engaged workforce. Prepare the annual budget and manage departmental expenses and staffing levels to meet operational and financial goals. Foster a culture of accountability, continuous learning, and professional growth; ensure ongoing coder education tied to compliance and regulatory changes.

Compliance, Quality Assurance & External Representation

Ensure coding practices comply with local, state, and federal guidelines and payer policies. Lead quality improvement activities related to coding and documentation integrity; use results to drive actionable change. Represent coding services on internal committees and in external forums, promoting best practices, benchmarking, and system collaboration.

EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:

Bachelor's degree in Health Information Management, Accounting, Business Administration, Finance, or other business-related field, required. Master's degree in a business or a health administration related field, preferred. Five (5) years management experience required with director level, preferred. Knowledge of best practices related to revenue cycle operations. Experience at a large, complex, integrated healthcare organization, preferred. Experience with insurance billing, patient accounting systems and other related applications, preferred. Communication skills and the ability to interact effectively with staff. Ability to manage, coordinates, and leads simultaneously. Ability to estimate time frames and meet projected deadlines. Ability to work with a variety of individuals in executive, managerial and staff level positions. Ability to work independently. Ability to understand and lead change. Goal oriented, exceptional interpersonal skills, change management and political skill.

CERTIFICATIONS/LICENSURES REQUIRED:

CPC, CCS, CCS-P, RHIT or RHIA, preferred.

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Additional Details

This posting represents the major duties, responsibilities, and authorities of this job, and is not intended to be a complete list of all tasks and functions. It should be understood, therefore, that incumbents may be asked to perform job-related duties beyond those explicitly described above.



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Overview

Henry Ford Health partners with millions of people on their health journey, across Michigan and around the world. We offer a full continuum of services - from primary and preventative care to complex and specialty care, health insurance, a full suite of home health offerings, virtual care, pharmacy, eye care and other health care retail. With former Ascension southeast Michigan and Flint region locations now part of our team, Henry Ford's care is available in 13 hospitals and hundreds of ambulatory care locations. Based in Detroit, Henry Ford is one of the nation's most respected academic medical centers and is leading the Future of Health: Detroit, a $3 billion investment anchored by a reimagined Henry Ford academic healthcare campus. Learn more at henryford.com/careers.



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Benefits

The health and overall well-being of our team members is our priority. That's why we offer support in the various components of our team's well-being: physical, emotional, social, financial and spiritual. Our Total Rewards program includes competitive health plan options, with three consumer-driven health plans (CDHPs), a PPO plan and an HMO plan. Our team members enjoy a number of additional benefits, ranging from dental and eye care coverage to tuition assistance, family forming benefits, discounts to dozens of businesses and more. Employees classified as contingent status are not eligible for benefits.


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Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer

Equal Employment Opportunity / Affirmative Action Employer Henry Ford Health is



committed to the hiring, advancement and fair treatment of all individuals without regard to



race, color, creed, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability, veteran status, size, height,



weight, marital status, family status, gender identity, sexual orientation, and genetic information,



or any other protected status in accordance with applicable federal and state laws.