• Provides operational leadership in collaboration with Regional Senior Coding Managers by monitoring daily coding activities, assigning workloads to vendors, and tracking team performance against productivity and accuracy goals. • Ensures quality and compliance by adhering to coding guidelines, participating in quality and compliance audits, and developing, implementing, and reporting on corrective remediation plans. • Supports strategic and process improvement initiatives by maintaining and developing coding playbooks, workflows, and automation to reduce charge lag and address inefficiencies or system issues. • Partners with business development teams to monitor new business integrations and ensure coding workflows support operational and revenue objectives. • Monitors and reports on coding KPIs, analyzes data to identify trends affecting charge lag or revenue throughput, and develops data-driven workplans to improve performance. • Collaborates with Clinical Documentation Improvement (CDI), IT, providers, billing, and other RCM functions to ensure operational alignment and seamless workflows. • Partners with Coding Quality and Education teams to provide ongoing training and education to coders and providers on coding changes, best practices, and compliance standards. • Works with interoperability and IT teams to enhance EHR and coding systems, supporting automation and process efficiency. • Applies in-depth knowledge of anesthesia coding, including CPT, ICD-10, HCPCS, and ASA coding, as well as Medicare, Medicaid, Workers’ Compensation, anesthesia, and acute pain billing guidelines. • Provides essential RCM process support to meet client needs and maintains 100% retention of assigned RCM clients. • Demonstrates strong collaboration and interpersonal skills with staff, physicians, and external stakeholders, prioritizing work effectively and operating independently with minimal supervision. • Maintains professionalism, a positive disposition, and tolerance for diverse viewpoints in a dynamic, high-stakes environment.