
Operation Delivery Lead
- Hyderabad, Telangana
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Lead closer calibrated quality outcomes for end customers.
- Drive customer satisfaction for quality of coding output including corrective and preventive actions for customer quality concerns.
- Build and operate a predictable quality model and well aligned outcome-based quality assurance unit for coding.
- Actively collaborate new customer engagements for better quality outcomes including calibration, SOP inputs
- Drive the structure and governance for ongoing customer calibrations.
- Collaborate and drive coding compliance reviews, alignment, and actions.
- Lead quality representation in business reviews – weekly, monthly, and quarterly as well customer and internal stakeholders/leadership visits.
- Drive high level of visibility on business performance and measures to relevant internal stakeholders.
- Actively lead collaborative efforts and cohesive outcomes between US and Global QA teams
- Drive and guide analytics for comprehensive quality dashboards along with business insights and publish for internal stakeholders and leaders
- Create effective quality sampling process and governance.
- Drive QA effectiveness and alignment with customer perceived quality.
- Collaborate with product team to build and manage comprehensive QA workflow tool along with reporting and insights capabilities.
- Drive process improvement initiatives including process reengineering, lean and automation initiatives to drive efficiency.
- Drive value-based initiatives including upstream opportunities from AR to coding, coding denials to abstract coding as well coding optimization, benchmarking, and CDI/provider education initiatives as well technology initiatives such as autonomous coding, coding edits/scrubbers and auto fixes.
- Collaborate with training team to drive effective feedback loop to address quality gaps through onboarding training.
- Drive high performing quality operations with closer governance on KPIs such as productivity, absenteeism, shift adherence, utilization, productive time etc
- Drive high people engagement including framework for periodical connects including 1 to 1, skips, FGDs as well use the people survey tool to drive meaningful actions, EWS and employee retention and govern attrition.
- Manage all exceptions and escalations for quality team.
- Drive people development efforts and framework around IDP and R&R initiatives and be an inspiring people leader
- Review and govern external audits rebuttals and final outcomes.
- Govern transactional quality operations as well drive strategic initiatives and implement best QA practices.
- Identify process improvement/business excellence/process reengineering opportunities and drive further.
- Drive automation and transformation initiatives.
- Exposure to digital solutions, automation, AI and analytics and ability to implement digital solutions.
- Analytical and structured approach with extensive experience in implementing high impact projects and delivering transformation projects in scale.
- License/Certifications: Currently holds and maintains at least 1 role-related certification (CCS or CIC for inpatient roles, CPC, COC, CCS, CCS-P for outpatient roles, CPMA for auditing role).
- Additional certifications in specific specialties (CEMC, CASCC, CEDC, CGSC, CHONC, CIRCC, COBGC) are a plus.
- Experience in professional and facility coding.
- Strong knowledge of CMS guidelines, Ambulatory Payment Classification (APC), Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS), National Correct Coding Initiative (NCCI) edits, and Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS).
- Experience in RCM/US Healthcare: Preference strong domain understanding of US healthcare (Payer/Provider); Provider experience preferred. To learn more, visit:
- Excellent communication skills, presentation skills, and proficiency in MS Excel & PowerPoint.
- Education – Bachelor’s degree in a medical allied course is preferred. For other courses, a high level of knowledge and relevant work experience to illustrate capability.
- Proficiency in medical terminologies and disease processes.
- Strong attention to detail.
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
- At least 1 year of experience as a quality auditor is preferred.
- Experience working with coding software such as Epic, Cerner, Meditech, and 3M 360.