Health Information Management Director

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We offer you an excellent total compensation package, including competitive salary, excellent benefit package and growth opportunities. Your benefits include 401(k), PTO, medical, dental, flex spending, life, disability, tuition reimbursement, employee discount program, employee stock purchase program and student loan repayment. In addition to base salary, this position is also eligible for an annual incentive. Incentive measures may include HCA financial performance, line of business financial performance, quality, operational indicators or performance goals.

You contribute to our success. Every role has an impact on our patients’ lives and you have the opportunity to make a difference. We are looking for dedicated professionals like you to be a part of our Health Information Management team. Join us in our efforts to better our community!

We are seeking a Director of Health Information Management for St. David's Georgetown Hospital in Georgetown, TX. St. David’s Georgetown Hospital, which is part of St. David’s HealthCare, is a 114-bed facility offering a range of services, including a 24-hour emergency department with a level IV trauma center; Certified Primary Stroke Center; inpatient and outpatient surgery; advanced pulmonary intervention; critical care capabilities; acute inpatient and outpatient rehabilitation; orthopedics and joint replacement; robotic services; and maternity and newborn services with mother-baby couplet care close to home for Georgetown families.

As an HIM Director, you will be responsible for managing, coordinating, and performing the day‐to‐day operations and workflow of the facility based HIM operations. You will assist the Regional HIM Director with the oversight and implementation of facility related HIM Service Center (HSC) operational planning, service level agreements, budgets, workflow processes, and internal controls. The HIM Leader actively participates in the facility based unbilled management process and resolution of issues contributing to unbilled accounts.

What you will do in this role:

• Manage facility based HIM operations and staff including, but not limited to, record pick up and reconciliation, release of information request processing, hardcopy retrieval of medical records, tumor and/or trauma registry, and processing of birth certificate/paternity papers as applicable.
• Routinely assist in the performance of facility based HIM operations including, but not limited to, ad hoc record pick up and reconciliation, release of information request processing, and hardcopy retrieval of medical records as needed.
• Perform facility unbilled activities including physician query follow up, physician incomplete record follow up, collaboration with facility department leaders in monitoring and working unbilled reports, working the applicable HPF queues, working the applicable unbilled management reports and queues, (e.g.,
• Work all facility HIM responsible HPF workflow queues (includes, but is not limited to, the Facility HIM, Department Queue, all Coding Pend for Queues, Review Queues, Unknown Document Queue, Cancelled Accounts Queue and all Wait for Queues) according to established workflow guidelines and schedules.
• Facilitate and execute physician notification processes regarding medical record documentation deficiency, delinquency, and physician suspension.
• Provide HPF record completion and medical record viewing training and education to medical staff members.
• Perform productivity and quality monitoring and provide timely and consistent feedback to facility‐based HSC employees.
• Ensure all forms to be scanned into HPF are barcoded properly.
• Annually review and update the facility Legal Medical Record Inventory.

What qualifications you will need:

• Associate's degree required, Bachelor's degree preferred. Facility HIM Director experience in medium to large hospital(s) may be substituted for degree requirement.
• A minimum of one year of HIM department experience is preferred. Three or more years is strongly preferred.
• A minimum of one year healthcare management experience is strongly preferred.
• RHIA or RHIT strongly preferred