Posting Note: This position will involve assignment of the injection and infusion codes to both inpatient and outpatient encounters.
This position assigns, per coding guidelines, the current version of ICD diagnosis and procedure codes and CPT-4 procedure codes for Observation, Same Day Surgery, Emergency Department, Urgent Care and/or Ancillary medical records. Completes coding for all accounts on a timely basis within the four day bill hold time frame. Follows up on all accounts needing coding queries or documentation completion by clinicians or medical staff. Demonstrates coding competencies with quality of coding and daily output of volume consistent with department productivity standards.
This position assigns, per coding guidelines, the current version of ICD diagnosis and procedure codes for Inpatient medical records or outpatient Infusion accounts. Completes coding for all accounts on a timely basis within the four day bill hold time frame. This position also follows up on all accounts needing coding queries or documentation completion by clinicians or medical staff. Demonstrates coding competencies with quality of coding and meeting department productivity standards.
This mid-level level position performs all the duties of the HIM Technician and advanced duties such as general ROI requests, patient portal inquiries, MPI edits, importing of documents or charts, and research of chart requests in multiple systems in compliance with organizational policies and HIPAA and government regulations. Maintains the confidentiality of our patient's protected health information. At all times, ensures that only authorized individuals have access to the patient's health information. Recalls charts from offsite storage, other clinics, or specific areas to ensure complete charts are provided when necessary. Monitoring and completing transcription work queues. This position is also responsible for resolving problems with documents such as missing medical record numbers, wrong document name, etc.. Assists HIM Management with special projects. This position is required to cover weekends and holidays and may be assigned to a second or third shift.
This position receives supervision from the HIM Coding Compliance Manager to perform internal coding quality reviews to ensure compliance with Official Coding Guidelines, UHDDS definitions and hospital coding policies. This position also provides training and education to the Coding Staff and Medical Staff, and maintains current department policies related to coding and abstracting. This position assists with coding production as needed, reviews and resolves coding issues related to billing, researches complex coding issues, and participates in process improvement related to coding and abstracting.