Primary Responsibilities:

• Lead a team of 25 - 30 certified coders. Maintains staff by orienting and training employees; maintains a safe, secure, and legal work environment
• Performance Management - Timeliness, Quality and Productivity metrics
• Planning, monitoring, and appraising job results; coaching, counseling, and disciplining employees; developing, coordinating, and enforcing systems, policies, procedures, and productivity standards
• Maintains quality service by enforcing quality and customer service standards; analyzing and resolving quality and customer service problems; identifying trends; recommending system improvements
• Maintains professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops; reviewing professional publications; establishing personal networks; benchmarking state-of-the-art practices; participating in professional societies
• Drive employee engagement and retention activities by sharing companys vision and goals, empowering employees on tasks as per their skill set, providing regular feedback etc.
• Comply with the terms and conditions of the employment contract, company policies and procedures, and any and all directives (such as, but not limited to, transfer and/or re-assignment to different work locations, change in teams and/or work shifts, policies in regards to flexibility of work benefits and/or work environment, alternative work arrangements, and other decisions that may arise due to the changing business environment). The Company may adopt, vary or rescind these policies and directives in its absolute discretion and without any limitation (implied or otherwise) on its ability to do so

About the company

India is home to the largest technology team for Optum outside of the US. We pursue technology as a unifying force, bringing together deep industry expertise with big data, advanced analytics, reengineering and automation, and emerging technology. By adopting technologies such as artificial intelligence, deep learning and natural language processing, we deliver quality, innovation, speed and scale through our comprehensive IT delivery, product and data engineering, and advanced research and predictive analytics capabilities.

The operations teams in India work on transformative solutions across product/benefit configuration, network management, end-to-end claims processing — including appeals and grievances, billing & enrollment, medical coding, revenue cycle management, and provider data operations. Our teams are enabled by transformational capabilities in business excellence, operational excellence, learning and development, transitions, business quality and workforce management functions.