San Francisco Department of Public Health

Compensation

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The position provides leadership and direction for multiple clinic-wide functions within the Health Information Management (HIM) – Mid Revenue Cycle Department, overseeing key functions that ensure accuracy, compliance, and integrity in medical records, documentation, and data. This role advances organizational goals by aligning operations with business development, decision support, outcomes analysis, information exchange, and health policy priorities. Reporting to the Executive Director of Health Information Management Services, the Manager oversees a team of over a dozen staff, ensuring effective operations and continuous performance improvement across the department. The Health Information Management (HIM) Manager, Ambulatory Clinics (0922 Manager I) performs the following essential job functions: • Provides leadership and strategic direction across HIM - Mid-Revenue Cycle Department functions, ensuring alignment with organizational goals. • Organizes and prioritizes departmental work to ensure timely coding and compliance with regulatory requirements in coordination with Utilization Management, Patient Financial Services, and Revenue Integrity. • Manages workflows, policies, and procedures to prevent backlogs and maintain accuracy of key performance indicators, data processing, and reporting. • Conducts peer review of health information and outpatient cases to ensure coding compliance, reimbursement accuracy, and continuous quality improvement. • Oversees data integrity and compliance with standards set by The Joint Commission (TJC), HCAI, CMS, California Department of Public Health, and other regulatory bodies. • Identifies staff training needs, develops and implements education programs, and supports recruitment, mentoring, and performance management. • Provides strategic planning and decision support for business development, outcomes analysis, resource allocation, credentialing, and health policy initiatives. The Health Information Management (HIM) Manager, Ambulatory Clinics (0922 Manager I) may perform other duties as assigned/required. Qualification s1. Education: Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university; AN D 2. Experience: Three (3) years of professional medical coding experience; AN D3. License and Certification: Possession of a valid Registered Health Information Technician (RHIT) or Registered Health Information Administrator (RHIA) credential .EDUCATION SUBSTITUTION: Additional qualifying experience as described above may substitute for the required degree on a year-for-year basis up to a maximum of two (2) years. One year is equivalent to thirty (30) semester or forty-five (45) quarter units .Applicants must meet the minimum qualification requirements by the final filing date unless otherwise noted .One-year full-time employment is equivalent to 2,000 hours (2,000 hours of qualifying work experience is based on a 40-hour work week) . Desirable Qualification s:The stated desirable qualifications may be considered at the end of the selection process when candidates are referred for hirin • g:Hospital medical coding experien • ceExperience in health information operations in support of regulatory, compliance, accreditation, licensure, and quality requirements for health care servic • esExperience with electronic health record (eHR) systems, such as EP • ICExperience managing health information syste • msExperience applying LEAN methodology to improve process • esExperience with health information workflows, clinical and document management systems, and system design principl es