Client Coding Project Manager

Datavant is a data platform company for healthcare whose products and solutions enable organizations to move and connect data securely. Datavant has a network of networks consisting of thousands of organizations, more than 70,000 hospitals and clinics, 70% of the 100 largest health systems, and an ecosystem of 500+ real-world data partners.

By joining Datavant today, you’re stepping onto a highly collaborative, remote-first team that is passionate about creating transformative change in healthcare. We invest in our people and believe in hiring for high-potential and humble individuals who can rapidly grow their responsibilities as the company scales. Datavant is a distributed, remote-first team, and we empower Datavanters to shape their working environment in a way that suits their needs.

The Role

The Client Coding Project Manager is an exciting opportunity for a motivated, analytical coding leader to plan, forecast, and manage client-facing coding projects.

You will:

• Partner with Client Success Managers to ensure successful implementation, coding, and result delivery of client projects including creating and delivering content to clients describing Apixio’s products, how to effectively use Datavant’s coding and management tools, and ensuring alignment on coding quality. 
• Oversee the coding phase of client projects to ensure that all parties are on track with project requirements, deadlines, and schedules.
• Respond to client needs and proactively identify and resolve coding issues which impact project success metrics.
• Prepare and deliver timely project performance reports by gathering, analyzing, and summarizing relevant information.
• Ensure project deliverables adhere to quality standards.
• Establish effective project communication plans (to coding staff, coding vendors, and clients) and ensure their execution.
• Facilitating change requests to ensure that all parties are informed of the impacts on schedule and budget.
• Coordinate the development of user manuals, coder training materials, and other documents as needed.
• Manage client satisfaction within the project period.
• Conduct post-project evaluation and identify successful and unsuccessful project elements.
• Ensure effective use of project resources (staffing, budget).
• Define project productivity and accuracy benchmarks and ensure coding teams deliver on them through collaboration with those responsible for coder performance management
• Drive quality assurance and performance improvement activities for coding projects
• Partner with peers in other departments to achieve company goals, develop a mutual understanding of roles, and foster a positive work environment
• Keep up to date with current coding policies for ICD-10, Medicare Advantage, HHS (ACA) and other markets
• Provide guidance and make strategic recommendations to help clients understand the shifts and trends happening in the risk adjustment coding space

What you will bring to the table: 

• Minimum Associates degree, preferably in a healthcare related field
• Bachelor's degree preferred, preferably in a healthcare related field
• Minimum 8 years of coding experience
• Minimum 5 years managing coders in an outpatient or inpatient setting
• Current CCS, CRC or CPC required
• Previous Medicare Advantage Risk Adjustment, CDI, Medicaid, Commercial RA and HEDIS experience
• Familiarity with HIPAA patient privacy requirements
• Excellent communication and organizational skills
• Keen attention to detail
• Advanced problem solving skills
• Proficient in Microsoft Office and G-Suite applications. Excel skills a must

We are committed to building a diverse team of Datavanters who are all responsible for stewarding a high-performance culture in which all Datavanters belong and thrive. We are proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, disability, veteran status, or other legally protected status.

Our compensation philosophy is to be externally competitive, internally fair, and not win or lose on compensation. Salary ranges for this position are developed with the support of benchmarks and industry best practices. 

We’re building a high-growth, high-autonomy culture. We rely less on job titles and more on cultivating an environment where anyone can contribute, the best ideas win, and personal growth is driven by expanding impact. The range posted is for a given job title, which can include multiple levels. Individual rates for the same job title may differ based on their level, responsibilities, skills, and experience for a specific job. The estimated salary range for this role is  [$110,000 - $135,000].

At the end of this application, you will find a set of voluntary demographic questions. If you choose to respond, your responses will be anonymous and used to help us identify areas of improvement in our recruitment process. (We can only see aggregate responses, not individual responses. In fact, we aren’t even able to see if you’ve responded or not.) Responding is your choice and it will not be used in any way in our hiring process.

This job is not eligible for employment sponsorship.