R&D Clinical and Medical Coding Analyst

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Job Description:

R&D Clinical & Medical Coding Analyst - Remote

3M Health Care is now Solventum

At Solventum, we enable better, smarter, safer healthcare to improve lives. As a new company with a long legacy of creating breakthrough solutions for our customers’ toughest challenges, we pioneer game-changing innovations at the intersection of health, material and data science that change patients' lives for the better while enabling healthcare professionals to perform at their best. Because people, and their wellbeing, are at the heart of every scientific advancement we pursue.

We partner closely with the brightest minds in healthcare to ensure that every solution we create melds the latest technology with compassion and empathy. Because at Solventum, we never stop solving for you.

The Impact You Will Make in this Role
 

Solventum HIS is an international leader in designing and maintaining healthcare payment and quality outcome systems and advancing value-based care. We work closely with Medicare, Medicaid and commercial insurers on hospital, outpatient and population payment models and design quality outcome programs that promote patient safety and reduce avoidable costs. We also support more than ten countries on how they budget and pay for inpatient and outpatient care, and measure healthcare quality. Here, you will make an impact by:

• Providing subject matter expertise in the clinical content development, specification, documentation, validation, application, and maintenance of the Solventum outpatient public and proprietary groupers, code editors, and software including Tricare, Home Health, IOCE (Integrated Outpatient Code Editor), and EAPG (Enhanced Ambulatory Payment Grouper).  These methodologies utilize healthcare data including diagnostic and procedural codes for determining payment and quality in healthcare. 
• Contributing and coordinating with the research efforts related to the methodologies, provide input into the prioritization of the potential research enhancements.
• Work directly with the Chief Product Owner, Product Owners, and Research team to drive enhancements to the methodologies by translating the clinical hypotheses into clinical logic content specifications using existing coding systems; documenting and maintaining clear clinical specifications.
• Work directly and collaborate with the technical, quality, and clinical team members, integrating product concepts to implement and evaluate the clinical specification.
• Responsible for maintaining process documentation for the methodologies update using C&ER standards and methods.

Your Skills and Expertise 
To set you up for success in this role from day one, Solventum is looking for candidates who must have the following qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree  AND 5 years’ experience in the healthcare industry in one or more of the following: outpatient medical coding and billing operations, outpatient prior authorization or denials management, outpatient healthcare claims and processing optimization, payor claims design and edit management, and outpatient healthcare services research and analytics.

AND

In addition to the above requirements, the following are also required:

• Significant experience working with excel, databases, and ability to learn computer applications for analysis.
• Comfortable in a multicultural, complex, cross-functional, and dynamic work environment, able to prioritize, multi-task, focus on goals, take accountability, and manage time well.
• Ability to take individual initiative and responsibility for assignments while working independently and in a team environment.
• Must demonstrate the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams—including clinicians, researchers, and engineers—to communicate and train on clinical workflows, healthcare coding systems, and patient classification methodologies, while providing enthusiastic leadership that drives team engagement and performance.

Additional qualifications that could help you succeed even further in this role include:

• Master's degree in health field, clinical informatics, clinical coding, and/or HIM credentials.
• Familiarity with patient classification research and development:
  • Outpatient coding and payment systems
  • Commercial, Medicare and Medicaid environments
  • Risk adjustment
• Deep Knowledge of ICD-10-CM, CPT, NDC, and APC, with additional knowledge of ICD-10-PCS, HCPCS, APC, HCC, and DRG.
• Ability to evaluate research questions, analyze results and statistical output and patterns, and document hypotheses and recommendations.
• Healthcare software product development experience, bringing products from initial concept to release.
• Healthcare payer, delivery or industry experience in healthcare quality, population health, care management

Work location: Remote

Travel – May include up to 5%

Must be legally authorized to work in country of employment without sponsorship for employment visa status (e.g., H1B status).

Supporting Your Well-being 

Solventum offers many programs to help you live your best life – both physically and financially. To ensure competitive pay and benefits, Solventum regularly benchmarks with other companies that are comparable in size and scope. 

Onboarding Requirement: To improve the onboarding experience, you will have an opportunity to meet with your manager and other new employees as part of the Solventum new employee orientation. As a result, new employees hired for this position will be required to travel to a designated company location for on-site onboarding during their initial days of employment. Travel arrangements and related expenses will be coordinated and paid for by the company in accordance with its travel policy. Applies to new hires with a start date of October 1st 2025 or later.Applicable to US Applicants Only:The expected compensation range for this position is $106,331 - $129,960, which includes base pay plus variable incentive pay, if eligible. This range represents a good faith estimate for this position. The specific compensation offered to a candidate may vary based on factors including, but not limited to, the candidate’s relevant knowledge, training, skills, work location, and/or experience. In addition, this position may be eligible for a range of benefits (e.g., Medical, Dental & Vision, Health Savings Accounts, Health Care & Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts, Disability Benefits, Life Insurance, Voluntary Benefits, Paid Absences and Retirement Benefits, etc.). Additional information is available at: https://www.solventum.com/en-us/home/our-company/careers/#Total-RewardsResponsibilities of this position include that corporate policies, procedures and security standards are complied with while performing assigned duties.

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