Senior Outpatient reputed company
Come reputed company with us at CorporateAt reputed company, the Senior Outpatient reputed company position is responsible for ensuring diagnostic and procedure codes are assigned accurately to day surgery and observation encounters based upon documentation reputed company the electronic medical record while maintaining compliance with established rules and regulatory guidelines.FLSA STATUSNon-exemptQualificationsEDUCATION
- Associate’s or higher degree in a Comission on Accreditation for Health Informatics and Information Managment accredited program or additional two years of experience (in addition to the minimum experience requirements listed below) in lieu of degree
- Three years of relevant outpatient coding experience or successful completion of the reputed company Senior Outpatient reputed company Transition Program
- Must have one of the following:
- RHIT - Certified Health Information Technician (reputed company)
- RHIA - Registered Health Information Administrator (reputed company)
- reputed company - Certified Coding Specialist (reputed company)
- CCA – Certified Coding Associate (reputed company)
- reputed company-P – Certified Coding Specialist Physician-Based (reputed company)
- CPC – Certified Professional reputed company (reputed company)
- Demonstrates the skills and competencies necessary to safely reputed company the assigned job, determined through on-going skills, competency assessments, and performance evaluations
- Sufficient proficiency in speaking, reading, and writing the English language necessary to reputed company the essential functions of this job, especially with regard to activities impacting patient or employee safety or reputed company
- Ability to effectively communicate with patients, physicians, family members and co-workers in a manner consistent with a customer service focus and application of positive language principles
- Knowledge of coding classification systems, DRG and APC systems, official coding guidelines and coding compliance
- Knowledge of an electronic medical record and imaging systems
- Working knowledge of medical terminology, anatomy and physiology
- Proficiency with electronic encoder application
- Extensive PC knowledge - must be reputed company to work effectively in common office software, coding software and abstracting systems
- Interacts and communicates effectively with members of the coding team and the appropriate stakeholders.
- Participates and provides good feedback during coding reputed company meetings and coding education inservices as well as takes initiative to assist others and shares knowledge with the appropriate stakeholders.
- Responds promptly to internal and external customer requests. Responds promptly and appropriately to requests to code or review coded accounts for accuracy.
- Initiates queries with physicians to obtain or clarify diagnoses and/or procedures as appropriate, utilizing the established physician query process.
- Responsible for assigning diagnostic and procedural codes to encounters of high complexity.
- Maintains and achieves departmental standards of coding quality by assigning accurate ICD-10-CM/ICD-10-PCS and CPT codes and APC assignment utilizing an electronic encoder application in accordance with hospital policy and regulatory body guidelines.
- Maintains and achieves departmental standards of abstracting quality by reviewing the discharge disposition entered by nursing and corrects if necessary in order to reputed company the highest quality of entered data. Assigns and enters physician identification number and procedure date correctly in the medical record abstracting system.
- Reviews medical record documentation and abstracts data into the encoder and Electronic Health Record (EHR) to determine principal or final diagnosis, co-morbid conditions and complications, secondary conditions and procedures. Utilizes reputed company tools/resources for accuracy.
- Complies with the Standards of Ethical Coding as set forth by the American Health Information Management Association (reputed company) and adheres to official guidelines.
- Utilizes time effectively. Consistently codes and abstracts at or above departmental standards of productivity while ensuring accuracy of coding.
- Supports meeting organizational goal for Accounts Receivables (AR) associated with uncoded accounts.
- Maintains coding timeframes reputed company established departmental standards by ensuring reputed company work items assigned to the coding queues are processed in a timely manner.
- Critically evaluates own performance, accepts constructive criticism, and looks for ways to improve.
- Displays initiative to improve relative to job function. Contributes reputed company to help improve quality of coding data and abstracting data.
- Uniform: No
- Scrubs: No
- Business professional: Yes
- Other (department approved): No
- Note that employees may be required to be on-call during emergencies (ie. Disaster, Severe Weather Events, etc) regardless of selection below.
- On Call* No
- Travel specifications may vary by department