UCLA Health

Revenue Integrity QC Auditor

UCLA Health • $88K — $190K *
Healthcare
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Health Information Management, Healthcare Administration, Finance, Business Administration, Accounting, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
  • 8+ years of experience in healthcare revenue cycle and claims auditing.
  • Advanced knowledge of revenue cycle operations, including coding and reimbursement methodologies.
  • Expertise in CPT, HCPCS, ICD-10-CM, and ICD-10-PCS coding principles.
  • Knowledge of Medicare, Medi-Cal, managed care, and commercial payer billing requirements.
  • Advanced analytical skills for evaluating complex financial data and operational workflows.
  • Strong communication skills for audit reporting and explaining revenue cycle concepts.

Responsibilities

  • Conduct audits of hospital and professional claims for compliance and accuracy.
  • Review claims and medical records to identify billing errors and opportunities for recovery.
  • Apply coding principles when evaluating various healthcare claims.
  • Analyze denials and recommend corrective actions based on root cause findings.
  • Develop audit findings, reports, and quality control metrics for leadership.
  • Collaborate with various departments to resolve billing and reimbursement issues.
  • Provide education on coding, billing, and revenue cycle best practices.

Benefits

  • Flexible hybrid work environment.
  • Regular Monday-Friday schedule.
  • Opportunity to work with diverse healthcare departments.
  • Engagement in process improvement initiatives.
Full Job Description
General Information

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Work Location: Los Angeles, CA, USA

Onsite or Remote

Flexible Hybrid

Work Schedule

Monday-Friday 8am-5pm

Posted Date

09/24/2026

Salary Range: $88900 - 190300 Annually

Employment Type

2 - Staff: Career

Duration

Indefinite

Job #

32419

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

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Revenue Integrity

Perform advanced revenue cycle auditing and analysis to support accurate billing, regulatory compliance, and optimal reimbursement across hospital and professional services claims. As the Revenue Integrity QC Auditor, you will conduct pre-billing and retrospective claim audits, evaluate coding, charging, billing, denial, and reimbursement activity, and identify financial risks, root causes, and revenue recovery opportunities. This role collaborates with clinical, operational, coding, compliance, information technology, and revenue cycle partners to strengthen charge capture, claims performance, billing accuracy, and revenue integrity practices.

In this role, you will:
• Conduct pre-billing, concurrent, and retrospective audits of hospital and professional claims to evaluate coding, charging, billing, reimbursement accuracy, and regulatory compliance.
• Review claims and medical record documentation to identify billing errors, charge discrepancies, payment variances, denials, compliance risks, and opportunities for revenue recovery.
• Apply CPT, HCPCS, ICD-10-CM, and ICD-10-PCS coding principles and payer requirements when evaluating government, managed care, and commercial claims.
• Analyze denials, rejections, stop bills, discharged-not-final-billed accounts, underpayments, and overpayments to identify root causes and recommend corrective actions.
• Analyze revenue cycle, claims, denial, reimbursement, and operational data and develop audit findings, reports, dashboards, scorecards, quality control metrics, and recommendations for leadership.
• Collaborate with Revenue Integrity, Coding, Patient Business Services, Compliance, Information Technology, and clinical departments to resolve billing and reimbursement issues and support corrective action plans.
• Provide guidance and education on coding, charging, billing, documentation, reimbursement requirements, audit processes, and revenue cycle best practices.
• Support process improvement efforts focused on charge integrity, workflow effectiveness, revenue recovery, compliance, and reduction of revenue loss.
Salary Range:
$88,900 to $190,300 annually

Job Qualifications

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Required
• Bachelor's degree in Health Information Management, Healthcare Administration, Finance, Business Administration, Accounting, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Eight or more years of progressively responsible experience in healthcare revenue cycle, revenue integrity, claims auditing, coding, reimbursement analysis, or related healthcare financial operations.
• Advanced knowledge of healthcare revenue cycle operations, including charge capture, billing, coding, claims adjudication, denials management, and reimbursement methodologies.
• Expertise in CPT, HCPCS, ICD-10-CM, and ICD-10-PCS coding principles and their application within healthcare claims auditing.
• Knowledge of Medicare, Medi-Cal, managed care, and commercial payer billing requirements and reimbursement regulations.
• Advanced analytical skills with the ability to evaluate complex claims, financial data, reimbursement trends, and operational workflows.
• Ability to identify root causes of billing errors, denials, compliance risks, and revenue leakage and develop practical solutions.
• Advanced proficiency with healthcare information systems, revenue cycle applications, reporting tools, data analysis, dashboard development, spreadsheet applications, and presentation software.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to prepare concise audit reports, findings, and recommendations and explain technical revenue cycle concepts to diverse audiences.
• Ability to manage multiple projects, competing priorities, and deadlines in a fast-paced healthcare environment.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with clinical, operational, compliance, financial, and technical stakeholders.

Preferred
• CCS (Certified Coding Specialist) certification.
• CCS-P (Certified Coding Specialist, Physician-based) certification.
• CPC (Certified Professional Coder) certification.
• CPMA (Certified Professional Medical Auditor) certification.
• CRCR (Certified Revenue Cycle Representative) certification.
• Experience supporting revenue cycle process improvement, workflow redesign, or revenue recovery initiatives within an academic health system or large healthcare organization.
• Familiarity with Epic/CareConnect, Clarity, Cirius, and other healthcare revenue cycle reporting platforms.

As a condition of employment, the final candidate who accepts an offer of employment will be required to disclose if they have been subject to any final administrative or judicial decisions within the last seven years determining that they committed any misconduct; or have filed an appeal of a finding of substantiated misconduct with a previous employer.

Current/former UC employees are subject to a personnel file review.

About UCLA Health

UCLA Health is a world-renowned academic medical center located in Los Angeles, California. It comprises four hospitals, including Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, and more than 200 primary and specialty care clinics. UCLA Health is affiliated with the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and is consistently ranked among the top hospitals in the United States. The health system employs over 20,000 people and serves as a major center for patient care, medical education, and research.
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