Charge Description Master Manager

CATHOLIC HEALTH EAST is a multi-institutional Catholic health system, which is co-sponsored by 10 religious congregations, and Hope Ministries, a Public Juridic Person within Catholic Health East. Based in Newtown Square, Pennsylvania, the System provides the means to ensure the continuation of the Catholic identity and operational strength of the sponsors' health ministries, which are located within 11 eastern states from Maine to Florida.  Our growing organization has a CDM Manager position available.

 Job Summary
This position is the technical expert for the Charge Description Master (CDM) and is responsible for ensuring data integrity between the Catholic Health East (CHE) standard CDM and the hospitals’ CDM for multiple CHE Regional Health Corporations (RHCs). This position will manage CDM analysts and perform updates to the RHC CDMs through the Meditech Standard initially, and then eventually through the selected commercially available compliance tool for Meditech and Siemens hospitals. This position will perform audits and provide training and guidance to RHCs as well as CDM analysts. This position is responsible for management of the system charge master standard and associated compliance and revenue enhancement projects. In addition, this position will assist in the development and implementation of policies relating to standards and maintaining compliance with Federal, local, and third party payer requirements. Further responsibilities include providing support to the department in setting up new service lines, adding codes and assisting in bringing additional RHCs’ CDMs onto the Meditech Client Server platform.

Education, Certifications or Licenses - Bachelor’s degree in appropriate field (i.e., nursing) with 3 or more years of billing or coding (CDM maintenance); or a High School diploma or equivalent with at least 7 years of progressive health care experience in finance, revenue management (e.g., billing), nursing, reimbursement or compliance with 5 or more of the 7 years in coding or CDM. - Coding credentials required. Certified Procedural Coder (CPC) or commitment to obtain within one year of employment. Continued employment contingent on acquiring and maintaining coding certification.

Experience - Proficiency with third party billing and documentation standards. - Experience auditing, training and communicating coding concepts and regulations. - A detailed understanding of the CDM and service item master. - Experience in Hospital operations, a general understanding of the revenue cycle and in particular, charge capture. - Previous experience with Patient Accounting Systems (particularly Meditech Client Server) and bolt-on CDM tools. - Experience user of Microsoft© applications including Word, Excel and PowerPoint. - Experience using patient accounting systems, coding books and CDM tools.

Skills - Demonstrated knowledge of CMS regulations, billing compliance and the various data elements associated with the UB-92/ 837 and HCFA-1500 claim form. - Knowledge of medical terminology required. - Superior verbal and written communication skills…proficient enough to provide education. - Excellent interpersonal skills and experience interacting with clinical and financial personnel. - Skilled at leading people and managing process. Ability to work well without close supervision. Self-starter and detail oriented. - Strong quantitative, analytical and organizational skills. Mathematical skills, including basic accounting.

It is possible that certain education and experience requirements for this position will be modified depending on market conditions. If you have an interest in this position but do not have the specified education and experience, we suggest you contact the Human Resources Department to signal your candidacy.

To learn more about this position and to apply, visit our website at www.che.org/employment/ns.php

CHE is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. 

Catholic Health East

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