Anesthesia Coding Team Lead

Description

Job Title: Anesthesia Coding Team Lead

Job Type: Full-Time

Location: Fully Remote,  Must be a resident of one of the following states: TX, TN, NC, SC, CO, NJ, OK, or AL. 

SUMMARY: The Anesthesia Coding Team Lead is responsible for overseeing and guiding a team of medical coders specializing in anesthesia. This role ensures accuracy and compliance in coding practices, supports team development, achieves key performance metrics, and drives efficiency gains across the coding process.

Duties include but are not limited to:

• Lead and manage a team of anesthesia coders, providing training, support, and performance feedback.
• Ensure accurate and timely coding of anesthesia services in compliance with all relevant regulations and guidelines.
• Conduct regular quality assurance audits to ensure coding accuracy and consistency.
• Communicate effectively with healthcare providers to clarify documentation and coding requirements.
• Develop and implement coding policies and procedures to optimize workflow and efficiency.
• Stay updated on changes in coding standards and regulations, ensuring the team is informed and compliant.
• Analyze coding data with PowerBI and report on key performance metrics to senior management.
• Facilitate continuous professional development and education for team members.

Key Performance Metrics:

• Accuracy Rate: Maintain a coding accuracy rate of 98% or higher, as determined by quality assurance audits.
• Productivity Rate: Ensure coders achieve a minimum of 95% of the established productivity benchmarks for anesthesia coding.
• Turnaround Time: Ensure all coding is completed within 48 hours of receiving documentation.
• Compliance Rate: Achieve 100% compliance with regulatory requirements and coding standards.
• Team Development: Ensure all team members complete at least 20 hours of continuing education annually.
• Communication Efficiency: Maintain an average response time of less than 24 hours for provider queries. Must also maintain 10-day queries on provider responses to missing information requests from team.

Requirements

Minimum Qualifications

To perform this job successfully an individual must be able to perform each essential duty to a satisfactory standard. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Education: An associate degree is required; however, a combination of relevant work experience and education may be considered. A bachelor’s degree preferred. 

Experience: Five (5) years of experience in medical coding and two (2) years of supervisory experience required. In-depth knowledge of anesthesia coding guideline, regulations, and standards.

License/Certification: Certified Professional Coder (CPC) or Certified Anesthesia and Pain Management Coder (CANPC). 

Language Skills: Demonstrated ability to exercise professional oral and written communication skills with all internal and external audiences.    

Computer Skills: Experience with medical billing software systems is required. Strong Microsoft Excel skills are required. Proficiency in Microsoft Outlook, Word, and PowerPoint is also required.

Reasoning Ability: Ability to organize and manage personal workload and the workload of the Billing Services Team. Ability to achieve and maintain strong working knowledge of anesthesia billing operation practices. Ability to analyze and assess the production effort of the Billing Services Team. Ability to develop and execute process improvement plans.

Physical Demands and Work Environment

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by any employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand, walk, use hands to finger, handle, or feel, reach with hands and arms, and talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 40 pounds and be able to work in a sitting position for long periods of time and up to the entire shift. Duties are performed in an indoor setting. The noise level in the work