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ChristianaCare

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10,000+ employees

🏥 Healthcare

🤝 Non-profit

💰 $2.5M Grant on 2022-10

Healthcare • Non-profit

ChristianaCare is one of the country’s most dynamic health care organizations, headquartered in Wilmington, Delaware. It is dedicated to improving health outcomes, enhancing accessibility to high-quality care, and reducing health care costs. The organization includes a vast network of services, including primary care, outpatient services, home health care, urgent care, and three hospitals with 1,336 beds, a freestanding emergency department, and specialized centers for trauma, stroke, heart and vascular care, and cancer care. Recognized nationally for its workplace environment and quality of care, ChristianaCare is a nonprofit teaching health system committed to advancing the future of health care.

📋 Description

• Assign accurate and timely ICD-10-CM/PCS and HCPCS/CPT codes, payment group classifications, and data abstractions for reimbursement and statistical reporting • Review and interpret inpatient, outpatient, ancillary, diagnostic, emergency medicine, and other patient records • Perform coding and abstracting to support billing, data quality, statistics, severity-of-illness, and risk-of-mortality reporting • Apply UHDDS definitions, CMS regulations, and official and internal coding guidelines • Use diagnostic reports, laboratory values, doctors’ orders, and medication forms to code patient charts • Complete daily work assignments and meet productivity and accuracy standards • Mentor newer coders and coders training in new coding disciplines • Abstract, determine, sequence, and enter diagnosis and procedure data into coding and abstracting systems • Use coding systems for communication, account holds, management questions, and queries • Review charts with Coding Management for accurate code assignment • Provide coded and abstracted information for final coding and billing within productivity expectations • Review and correct patient demographic and abstracted data received via HL7 • Calculate inpatient encounters using MS-DRG and APR-DRG groupers • Sequence CPT codes using APC grouper methodology • Submit daily productivity reports • Attend coding meetings, training sessions, seminars, and workshops • Report patient identification, account, encounter, documentation, and medical-record discrepancies • Support special coding projects • Assist with systems testing, report reconciliation, and IT project support • Work through aged coding accounts and billing-system and coding-system reports and queues

🎯 Requirements

• CCS credential required • College degree in Health Information Management, completion of an AHIMA-approved certificate program, or one year of acute-care coding experience required • One year of coding experience in an acute-care setting coding inpatient, observation, emergency medicine, or same-day surgery records may substitute for education • Associate or Bachelor of Science degree in Health Information Technology preferred • Knowledge of ICD-10-CM/PCS and HCPCS/CPT coding • Knowledge of UHDDS definitions, CMS regulations, and official and internal coding guidelines • Ability to code inpatient, outpatient, emergency medicine, ancillary, and diagnostic records • Ability to use coding and abstracting systems, MS-DRG, APR-DRG, and APC grouper methodologies • Ability to meet productivity and accuracy standards • Full-time availability

🏖️ Benefits

• Scheduling and hours are very flexible • Work/life balance support • Equipment provided • Coding books provided • Continuing education credits • Professional organization memberships to AHIMA or APC • Full Medical, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, etc. • 403(b) with company match • Generous paid time off • Annual membership to care.com • Access to backup care services for dependents through Care@Work • Retirement planning services • Financial coaching • Fitness and wellness reimbursement • Discounts through several vendors for hotels, rental cars, theme parks, shows, sporting events, movie tickets and much more • Employee assistance program