Coding Validator

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🕒 May 26

⚓ Rhode Island – Remote

⚓ Rhode Island – Remote

💵 $29 - $48 / hour

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

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Brown Medicine

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201 - 500 employees

Founded 1995

📚 Education

🔬 Science

Education • Science

Brown Medicine is a medical practice group that has joined Brown Health Medical Group, providing integrated outpatient and specialty care across a network of providers under a single electronic health record. It offers patient-facing services such as primary and specialty care, televisits, and online patient portals (transitioning to MyChart), as well as administrative and billing support, and is affiliated with Brown University Health and the Warren Alpert Medical School.

📋 Description

• Reports to PFS Manager responsible for audit and education. • Performs coder and provider audits of ICD-10 codes, CPT codes and HCPCS codes. • Prepares training materials and provides education as needed. • Stays abreast of industry and payer changes pertaining to coding and documentation guidelines. • Audit professional ambulatory medical records for multispecialty provider organization to assure billed codes are accurately supported by the documentation. • Possess knowledge of teaching physician regulations, including incident to, split shared and attestation requirements. • Review diagnoses, procedures and modifiers assigned by coders, and record outcomes. • Share completed audit results with Validation Team Leadership who will relay results to Coding Manager and/or Director. • Stay abreast of coding and documentation guidelines, compliance policies, annual coding updates, payer policies and industry changes. • Identify coding/documentation trends that may pose a risk to Brown University Health or its revenue stream and report such trends to management team. • Recommend improvements to documentation templates in Epic that will minimize compliance risk and facilitate accurate documentation for the providers. • Assure documentation is defensible in the event of an external audit. • Work with Practices/Clinics, Providers, Coding Team, Corporate Compliance, Risk Management, Contracting and Payers to help assure that all departments are consistently on the same page and able to provide accurate feedback to coders and providers. • Abides by the Standards of Ethical Coding as set forth by the American Academy of Professional Coders and American Health Information Management Association. • Performs other duties as assigned.

🎯 Requirements

• Successful completion of coding certification program (CPC). • Understanding of the content of the medical record. • Trained in medical terminology, medical science, anatomy and physiology. • Ability to recognize and understand clinical documentation pertinent for coding. • Good writing skills to communicate coding/documentation issues clearly. • Computer literate; capable of researching websites to access regulatory requirements. • Ability to navigate the patient electronic medical record. • Excellent written and oral communication skills. • Proficient in Microsoft Word, Excel and other computer applications. • Five years coding experience, preferably in a large, academic multispecialty organization. • Past auditing experience or strong background in coding preferred.