Physician Coding Liaison II - Medical Specialties

Department:

13338 Enterprise Revenue Cycle - Charge Capture: Surgery/Medical Education

Status:

Full time

Benefits Eligible:

Yes

Hours Per Week:

40

Schedule Details/Additional Information:

Weekdays

Pay Range

$28.05 - $42.10

Atrium Health – Charlotte, NC

About Atrium Health:

Atrium Health is a nationally recognized leader in shaping health, delivering world-class care, and transforming the communities we serve. We bring together world-class physicians, cutting-edge research, and innovative technology to provide compassionate, personalized care for every stage of life. Join our team and be a part of a mission-driven organization dedicated to improving health, elevating hope, and advancing healing – for all.

Job Summary:

Atrium Health is seeking a highly motivated and detail-oriented Physician Coding Liaison to join our dynamic team. The Physician Coding Liaison will serve as a critical link between physicians, coding teams, and revenue cycle departments, ensuring accurate and compliant coding practices. This role will involve providing education, conducting audits, and resolving coding-related inquiries to optimize revenue integrity and minimize compliance risks.

Job Summary

Serves as the system-wide key contact for service line/specialty specific coding and proactively educates coding/documentation guidelines and/or concepts within a specific specialty. Collaborates with Chief Medical Officer (CMO), Senior director administrators, Production and Department support leaders for problem resolution and/or trends in payer specific rules/coverage. Educates Physicians, Advanced Practice Providers (APPs), Medical Group and Clinic Leadership to improve coding and documentation. Knowledge sharing with Patient Service Area (PSA) Liaisons, Production Coding, and Department Support to improve coding, documentation, and charge capture opportunities. Due to the system-wide service line/specialty specific support, the PCL Spec role is virtual. Note: For purposes of this document, the term Clinicians represents all billing providers.

Essential Functions

• Provides service line/specialty specific coding/documentation education and feedback related to coding changes (CPT including E&M, modifiers, ICD-10-CM, and HCPCS), annual code updates, payer requirements, and payer rejection resolution to assigned Physicians/APPs. Partners with CMOs to standardize coding processes across a specific specialty. Shares and/or presents coding/documentation education presentations to Chief Medical Officers (CMOs), Physicians/APPs, Senior Director Administrators across the organization. Coordinates with PSA Liaisons to provide adequate Physician/APP and/or clinical team member support.

• Conducts orientations for all Physicians/APPs, residents/students and clinical team members on specialty specific coding and documentation related education. Performs new clinician documentation reviews for specialty specific coding, and documentation feedback, as requested.

• Coordinates responses to Physicians/APPs, Locum Tenens, residents/student's questions and feedback from various sources and partners, including Senior director administrators, CMOs, Medical Group Compliance, Internal Audit, Physician Compensation, Clinical Informatics/Clinical Informatics Educators, Quality Improvement Coordinators, and/or other external partners.

• Queries Physician/APP, Locum Tenens, residents/students when prompted by Professional Coding Department production coders to assist in resolving coding and documentation questions. Relays any coding changes, feedback, and education to Physician/APP, Locum Tenens, residents/students and/or clinic leadership, as appropriate.

• Monitors and works to resolve charge sessions requiring additional information for assigned clinicians and/or service line/specialty in the Epic work queues and/or other transfer work queues to ensure Clinicians are completing work timely to ensure proper supporting documentation for billing and timely filing.

• Attends and provides service line/specialty specific coding and documentation information, as requested, to CMOs, Physicians/APPs and/or Clinic/Site Department meetings. These may be virtually and/or in-person. Virtually attends Physician/APP education that include coding and/or documentation topics, such as Documentation Specialist clinician low risk review meetings, Risk Adjustment/HCC meetings, and/or Medical Group Compliance reviews/meetings.

• Collaborates with PSA Liaison to review and provide coding/documentation guidance on Ep