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The Vice President of Health Information Management provides executive leadership for Hackensack Meridian Health's middle revenue cycle functions. Provides leadership, strategic direction, oversight, coordination, and standardization of clinical documentation, coding, charge capture, identity management, transcription, medical record content format, and release and maintenance of health information. This role ensures the integrity, accessibility, compliance and security of patient health information. Leads network-wide administration of health information management policies and practices of responsible areas. Works with network hospital operations and clinical leaders to standardize health information management and governance for the network. Responsible for ensuring all functions meet regulatory requirements surrounding the legal medical record.

A day in the life of a Vice President of Health Information Management at Hackensack Meridian Health includes:

• Develop and execute strategic initiatives for health information management strategy across the organization, including digital transformation projects and process improvement programs.
• Provide overall guidance and leadership in implementing health information management and governance programs at Hackensack Meridian Health.
• Direct oversight of all hospital coding functions for the Hackensack Meridian Network. Includes dotted line oversight over professional coding, ensuring that policies and procedures are consistent between hospital and professional coding functions.
• Responsible for finding efficiencies in coding that may span hospital and physician enterprise coding, working closely with physician revenue cycle leadership to ensure streamlined, efficient, effective and high quality coding operations.
• Provide leadership and ensure that effective and relevant training and education programs are available for various staff including mandatory, refresher and remedial training regarding privacy and health information management policies and standard procedures.
• Recognize potential barriers to system implementation and develop a roll-out strategy with the assistance of the local operational staff and leadership.
• Be the primary spokesperson for the communication of health information management and health information governance strategies across HMH and to outside entities.
• Collaborate with other executives and engage with leaders and clinicians throughout the organization in a hands-on fashion to build quality, efficiency, effectiveness and a sense of shared accountability.
• Leads initiatives to improve documentation quality, coding accuracy and charge capture effectiveness to optimize reimbursement and mitigate denials.
• Develop, communicate, and implement HMH health information governance charter, goals and strategy.
• Assess, monitor and report on gaps and needed improvements.
• Lead the development of metrics and monitor and communicate key measures of health information governance and coding.
• Implement and monitor adherence to health information management and governance policies, protocols and procedures while aligning with best practice industry standards.
• Monitor and interpret national and state law and regulatory changes that may affect HMH health information management and governance processes and ensure compliance with all regulatory and accreditation requirements, including but not limited to CMS, HIPAA, The Joint Commission, etc..
• Design and staff critical network health information management processes including: master patient index, EHR, designated record set, data mapping, access and release of information processes, hospital clinical coding, classification and vocabulary management, clinical documentation improvement, dictation, speech recognition and transcription functions, retention and disposition of designated record sets, and other network information and records.
• Serve as HMH resource for health information standards, coding, clinical documentation requirements, and privacy and security auditing approved definitions and models.
• Through local audits and spot checks identify and promote areas of best practice and ensure that identified information risks are reported and addressed appropriately.
• Through multiple communication routes internal and external to the organization, identify and develop best practice across all areas of health information and data protection, governance and stewardship, and promote such practices throughout the network.
• Recruit, mentor and develop a high-performing HIM team fostering a culture of accountability, collaboration and innovation.
• Develop and manage the operating budget for network health information management.
• Other duties and/or projects as assigned.
• Adheres to HMH Organizational competencies and standards of behavior.

Education, Knowledge, Skills and Abilities Required:

• Master's Degree in Health Information Management, Accounting, Finance, Business or related field.
• Ten (10) years of progressive HIM leadership experience in a complex health insurance/claims environment.
• Experience with a major electronic hospital billing system.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Proficient computer skills.

Education, Knowledge, Skills and Abilities Preferred:

• Record of success managing complex projects with multiple, diverse stakeholders.
• Experience enabling modern, integrated HIM workflows to improve work efficiency for team members.
• Prior experience with Epic modules including Resolute Hospital Billing.
• Experience working in an organization of size and complexity comparable to Hackensack Meridian Health.

Licenses and Certifications Preferred:

• HFMA CHFP or similar certification.
• RHIA, RHIT, CCS, CHDA or similar strongly preferred.

If you feel that the above description speaks directly to your strengths and capabilities, then please apply today!