Hospital Coder – Outpatient

🕒 2 days ago

🌾 North Dakota – Remote

🌾 North Dakota – Remote

💵 $19 - $30 / hour

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🏥 Medical Billing and Coding

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Sanford Health

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1894

⚕️ Healthcare Insurance

Healthcare Insurance

Sanford Health is the largest rural health system in the United States, dedicated to transforming the healthcare experience and providing access to world-class healthcare in America's heartland. Headquartered in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, Sanford Health serves over 1. 4 million patients and nearly 200,000 health plan members across 250,000 square miles. The integrated health system includes 48 medical centers, 211 clinic locations, and more than 160 senior living centers, employing 2,900 physicians and advanced practice providers. Sanford Health is committed to offering compassionate care through its Centers of Excellence, focusing on specialties such as cancer, orthopedics, women’s health, and genetics. Additionally, it provides affordable health insurance, engages in extensive clinical trials, and supports personalized genetic medicine.

📋 Description

• Assigns codes to diagnoses and procedures for outpatient medical records using current International Classification of Diseases (ICD) and Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) coding classification systems. • Coding assignments are made for the purposes of reimbursement, research, compliance with federal and state regulations/guidelines and for severity of illness. • Meet productivity and quality standards. • Requires ongoing review and adherence to a multitude of regulatory requirements that are constantly changing. • Applies professional knowledge and uses critical thinking skills to assign codes to meet various payment groupings and medical necessity. • Works extensively with electronic medical record. • Prior coding classification education required. • Previous hospital coding experience highly desirable. • Prior computer and/or encoder software experience desirable. • Work requires extreme attention to detail and work which meets high ethical standards, logical thinking and the ability to acquire an intricate knowledge of system software and hardware. • Knowledge of components of the medical record. • Familiar with operative terms and pharmacology. • Work extensively with protected health information and is required to adhere to HIPAA privacy and security regulations and policies related to same.

🎯 Requirements

• Associate's degree in health information technology. • Bachelor's degree in Health Information Management (HIM) preferred. • Extensive knowledge of anatomy, physiology, disease processes and medical terminology. • Familiar with operative terms and pharmacology. • Maintain certification in Registered Health Information Administrator (RHIA), Registered Health Information Technician (RHIT), Certified Professional Coder (CPC), Certified Coding Specialist (CCS) or Certified Outpatient Coder (COC) by fulfilling continuing education requirements. • New graduates eligible for certification must complete the certification examination at the earliest testing dates following employment, and all subsequent dates thereafter until the exam is satisfactorily completed. If an employee fails the exam two consecutive times, there will be an evaluation by the Department Director who will determine one of the following: (A) Continue employment if overall job performance is satisfactory. If allowed to continue employment, failure to pass the exam on the third opportunity will result in immediate termination. (B) If performance is not satisfactory, the employee may be terminated.

🏖️ Benefits

• Flexible hours- so our employees can get personal tasks done at their leisure. • Variety of hours per day to select from: five 8 hrs, four 9hrs + one 4hr, or four 10’s. • Multiple specialty coding- so the coder can learn a vast majority of areas. • Working remotely in the comfort of your own home. • Optional overtime approved frequently.