HIM Coder, CCS Required

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🕒 April 24

🌵 Arizona, Connecticut, +16 more states – Remote

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💵 $26 - $44 / hour

⏰ Full Time

🟢 Junior

🟡 Mid-level

🏥 Medical Billing and Coding

🚫👨‍🎓 No degree required

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Lourdes Health System

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10,000+ employees

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Lourdes Health System is a comprehensive healthcare provider, offering a wide range of medical services including heart care, cancer care, neuroscience, orthopedics, OB/GYN, urgent care, surgery, and transplant care. It operates multiple hospitals and urgent care centers across South Jersey, providing telehealth and virtual visit options for convenient access to care. The organization is committed to community health, offering services such as mobile health units, health education, nutrition support, and free cancer screenings. Lourdes Health System aims to build trustful partnerships with patients, providing life-saving procedures and a supportive healthcare experience.

📋 Description

• Codes and abstracts hospital medical records for diagnostic and procedural coding • Utilizes federal, state procedures/guidelines to assure accuracy of coding and abstracting and productivity standards • Collaborates with medical staff and clinical documentation improvement (CDI) staff to clarify documentation • Maintains performance in accordance with corporate compliance requirements as it pertains to the coding and abstracting of medical records, as well as Diagnosis Related Group (DRG) assignment • Accurately reviews each record and knowledgeably utilizes ICD-10-CM, ICD-10-PCS, CPT-4, and encoder to accurately code all significant diagnoses and procedures • Sequences principal (or first-listed) diagnosis and principal procedures according to documentation found in the medical records and UHDDS definitions • Utilizes ongoing knowledge and reference material regarding DRGs to validate DRG assignments • Accurately utilizes written federal and state regulations and written guidelines regarding definitions and prioritizing of abstract data elements to assure uniformity of database • Records abstracted include Inpatient, Observation, Outpatient Surgery, Invasive Outpatients, and Emergency Department • Verifies and/or abstracts required data into computer system according to procedure • Utilizes equipment and processes appropriately, to ensure efficient coding and abstracting • Participates in maintaining DNB and accounts receivable goal • Maintains department level competencies • Participates in performance improvement activities

🎯 Requirements

• Minimum of two years inpatient records coding experience or equivalent • Ability to perform functions in a Microsoft Windows environment • Ability to be detailed oriented and perform tasks at a high level of accuracy • Ability to make sound decisions • Demonstrate good communication and team work skills • Previous experience with an electronic legal health record system preferred • High School Diploma or GED required • Knowledge of Anatomy & Physiology/ Medical terminology required • Coding education preferred or equivalent in years of experience • AHIMA Certification: Certified Coding Specialist (CCS) required for all employees hired after 10/1/2025

🏖️ Benefits

• medical/prescription, dental and vision insurance • health and dependent care flexible spending accounts • 403(b) (401(k) subject to collective bargaining agreement) • paid time off • paid sick leave as provided under state and local paid sick leave laws • short-term disability and optional long-term disability • colleague and dependent life insurance and supplemental life and AD&D insurance • tuition assistance • employee assistance program that includes free counseling sessions