Inpatient PTF Coder

🔥 12 minutes ago

🏛️ District of Columbia – Remote

🏛️ District of Columbia – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟢 Junior

🟡 Mid-level

🏥 Medical Billing and Coding

🚫👨‍🎓 No degree required

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Cooper Thomas LLC

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11 - 50 employees

🏥 Healthcare

🏛️ Government

💼 Consulting

Healthcare • Government • Consulting

Cooper Thomas LLC is a professional services firm that provides health IT support, virtual training and events, website design and development, and medical records coding/health information management services. The company supports all phases of EHR software and implementation lifecycles (requirements, development, testing, deployment, data migration, privacy/security, and interoperability), delivers a next-generation virtual event platform with speaker coaching and program management, and builds portals and web applications (CMS, SharePoint, responsive design). Cooper Thomas has extensive experience supporting federal healthcare clients, including Veterans Affairs medical centers and VISNs, and provides ICD-9/ICD-10 coding, auditing, and training services across VA facilities.

📋 Description

• Cooper Thomas, LLC is looking for VA experienced Inpatient PTF Coders for remote work. • Candidates should have a productivity-driven work history and maintain high coding accuracy. • Coders are responsible for correcting their own errors without further payment. • The role involves coding patient information with respect to ICD-10 in accordance with VA guidelines.

🎯 Requirements

• Previous experience with the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is required, either as a VA employee or a contractor working for VA. • Working knowledge of CPT, ICD-10, and DRG assignment and must be able to code PTF charts in ICD-10. • Ability to code the minimum per-hour productivity, including the related procedures, with 95% accuracy. • Active credentials as a certified coder and completion of all requirements to maintain active credentials. • Ability to follow site-specific coding guidelines that may vary from site to site. • Formal training in anatomy and physiology, medical terminology, pathology and disease processes, pharmacology, health record format and content, reimbursement methodologies and conventions, rules and guidelines for current classification systems (ICD, CPT, HCPCS). • Experience including, but not limited to data validation; analyzing and generating reports; reviewing and abstracting health record information, adhering to coding compliance, and ensuring that CPT/AMA and ICD codes and modifiers support clinical and physician documentation for proper and consistent data collection and reimbursement. • Familiarity with ICD nomenclature, CPT, SNOMED, HCPCS, JCAHO, DSM, DRC, medical and procedural terminology, anatomy and physiology, laboratory results, and disease processes. • Must be familiar with coding in VIP as well as the 101, 401, 501, 601, and 701 Screens.

🏖️ Benefits

• Benefits are available or you can decline benefits to maximize your compensation. • Payment is bi-weekly without exception.