Health Information Management Inpatient Coder

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🌴 South Carolina – Remote

🌴 South Carolina – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🏥 Medical Billing and Coding

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Prisma Health

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10,000+ employees

Founded 2017

🏥 Healthcare

💰 Grant on 2024-08

Healthcare

Prisma Health is a large integrated health system that operates hospitals, clinics, and related patient services in South Carolina and Tennessee. The organization employs nearly 32,000 people and focuses on providing clinical care, nursing and allied health services, and workforce training (e. g. , nurse residency programs), with an emphasis on patient-centered care and community health. The company posts career opportunities across administrative, clinical, technical, and support roles and highlights benefits, hiring events, and candidate resources on its careers site.

📋 Description

• Codes medical information into the Prisma billing/abstracting systems using established professional and regulatory coding guidelines. • Ensures that each diagnosis present on admission (POA) indicator is assigned appropriately. Codes for multiple facilities. • Applies ICD and ICD-PCS codes to inpatient records, including major traumas, and Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) records based on review of clinical documentation. • Reviews work queues to identify charts that need to be coded and prioritizes as per department-specific guidelines. • Consults, provides professional expertise to and collaborates with clinical documentation specialists on coding and documentation practices and standards.

🎯 Requirements

• Education - Certification Program or Associate degree or Coding Certificate through American Health Information Management (AHIMA) or other approved coding certification program. • Experience - Three (3) years coding experience in an acute care or ambulatory setting. Inpatient coding experience. EPIC health information system experiences preferred. • Required Certifications, Registrations, Licenses - Registered Health Information Technician (RHIT), Registered Health Information Administrator (RHIA), Certified Coding Specialist (CCS), Certified Inpatient Coder (CIC) or other approved coding credential. • Knowledge, Skills and Abilities - Proficiency in utilizing official coding books as well as the electronic medical record, computer assisted coding/encoding software, and clinical documentation information systems to facilitate coding assignment. Knowledge of electronic medical records and 3M or Encoder System. Knowledge of medical terminology and basic anatomy and physiology, pathophysiology, and pharmacology with the ability to apply this knowledge to the coding process. Knowledge of MS DRG prospective payment system and severity systems.

🏖️ Benefits

• Inspire health. Serve with compassion. Be the difference.