About IKS: IKS Health is the only integrated solution that enables enterprise healthcare organizations to achieve superior financial and clinical outcomes while also empowering them to grow successfully, operate efficiently, and navigate industry change. IKS Margin, IKS Practice, and IKS CARE solutions leverage the provider organizations existing technology investments to deliver industry leading results across the practice continuum. IKS Health maximizes revenue and expands margins, eases provider burden while reducing costs, and enables organizations to scale profitably.

What distinguishes IKS Health from others is our healthcare expertise; understanding of customers business requirements; technology expertise; and our analytics/business intelligence capabilities. Our team includes medical doctors, healthcare professionals who have managed clinical practices, management consultants, revenue cycle professionals, and technology practitioners.

Job Description:

The AVP of Coding for IKS Care will be responsible for ensuring that the Sites operations of IKS Coding meet or exceed client requirements and are operationally efficient. It is critical that we quickly ramp to scale and establish industry wide best practices across the coding services. The AVP of Coding will be responsible for designing, setting up and managing a process excellence/quality framework for IKS Care that ensures that our coders deliver high quality of work. The AVP of Coding may have several Managers of Coding Quality reporting to him/her, each managing the process excellence/quality function delivery for one client (to whom we may provide multiple services), and/or one particular service (which we may provide to multiple clients).

The successful candidates should:

Create and manage operational frameworks to deliver high quality of work in field of medical coding.

Create six sigma quality frameworks to drive process excellence for IKS Coding in a clinical context using DMAIC, lean six sigma, or other process suitable quality methodologies.

Work with delivery leaders to launch and lead six sigma quality projects across IKS Coding

Set up and manage transactional quality frameworks in a clinical context including quality assessment checklists (for quality assurance leaders), identify CTQ quality metrics, create periodic quality reports

Work with delivery and training functions to create feedback loops from quality assessment to training and operations management

Familiarity with clinical documentation coding

Be able to manage large teams

Ability to work with teams across continents

Demonstrated ability to lead & motivate a team to achieve business unit goals

Extremely high energy team player with a burning desire to succeed in fast paced environment and rapidly evolving market

High degree of integrity, work ethic and analytical abilities

Track record of delivering high quality services

Relationship with key decision makers in target market

Significant travel between the US and India

Desired Experience & Qualifications:

Certified coder

12+ years of work experience, including experience in coding, coding audits, workflow assessments etc

Strong expertise on ICD-9, ICD -10, and HCC coding

Ability to provide supervision on quality reviews to the delivery team.

Team player who can work with multi-geography cross-functional teams

Experience with healthcare IT (implementation, customization or support for EHR, population management tools, HIE, registry, etc.) is desirable but not essential.

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