Team Lead - Anesthesia Coding

Company Overview

National Partners in Healthcare (NPH) is a progressive healthcare company specializing in anesthesiology. We partner with physicians and health systems to deliver high quality care, aligning synergies and best practices to achieve superior outcomes. As a leader in the industry, we believe in developing a foundation of trust, transparency, and excellence in everything we do. The success of our company has created excellent career advancement opportunities that support a healthy work/life balance.

Position Summary:

The Team Lead will provide support to a team of coders (CPC’s).  This person will act as the “go to” person for questions related to CPT, ASA, DX and modifiers.  This includes but is not limited to; training and mentoring of team, reviewing coding documents, delegating work assignments, manage workflows, work with the manager to resolve personnel issues. This position will code charge tickets work special projects assigned by manager.   A coder is a highly proficient employee with a solid understanding of the entire billing workflow. Performs all coding functions and assists other areas in the billing department as assigned by the manager.  Will be the first line to identify and resolve problems and/or reports more difficult issues to the manager.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Aids in monitoring coding team of Certified Professional Coders specializing in Anesthesia.
• Research and answer questions and concerns of team members
• Communicate management goals and objectives to team
• Communicate changes to the rules and guidelines to the staff
• Work with the department manager to resolve personnel issues. 
• Assist with staff evaluations
• Coordinate/provide training of new employees
• Identify training needs of staff and coordinate learning sessions on these matters
• Codes Anesthesia charge tickets
• Reviews CPT, ICD-10, ASA and HCPCS coding on charge tickets
• Reviews anesthesia records for supporting documentation for charge tickets
• Reviews medical records for supporting documentation for charge tickets
• Aids in monitoring additional information tracking logs of coders ensuring resolution is achieved. 
• Participate in reviewing charge tickets that are sent back from the billers for additional information providing feedback where necessary.
• Identify cosmetic and/or prepaid cases where the anesthesia record does not stipulate start/end times for each procedure.
• Communicates issues and questions to management when appropriate.
• Assists with updating and maintaining all policies and procedures for the department.
• Maintains strictest confidentiality.
• Performs other duties as assigned.
• Adhere to all company policies and procedures.
• Adherence to and compliance with information systems security is everyone’s responsibility. It is the responsibility of every computer user to: Know and follow Information Systems security policies and procedures. Attend Information Systems security training, when offered.  Report information systems security problems.
• Perform other duties as assigned.