Inpatient Coder

🕒 February 27

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e4health

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501 - 1000 employees

🤝 B2B

☁️ SaaS

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

B2B • SaaS • Artificial Intelligence

e4health is a healthcare-focused services and technology firm that helps hospitals and health systems improve clinical data quality, coding accuracy, revenue integrity, and IT systems. They provide Health IT consulting, health information management (HIM), clinical documentation improvement (CDI), coding and auditing (including risk adjustment/HCC), legacy data migration and validation, interim staffing, and software and AI automation solutions. e4health serves more than 400 health systems with a mix of professional services, advisory engagements, and technology to optimize workflows, protect IT investments, and drive measurable outcomes.

📋 Description

• The Inpatient Coder is responsible for accurately abstracting data into appropriate client electronic medical record systems, following the Official ICD-10-CM and ICD-10-PCS Guidelines for Coding, UHDDS guidelines, and CMS directives. • Performs data entry of required abstracted patient information into the client’s information system. • Assigns Present on Admission (POA) indicators according to AHA POA guidelines. • Queries physicians when appropriate and interacts with Clinical Documentation staff as per account requirements. • Maintains consistent coding accuracy rate of 95% or better while also meeting productivity standards. • Assigns appropriate ICD-10-CM/PCS codes to inpatient accounts as per designated workflow • Abstracts and enters coded data for hospital statistical and reporting requirements • Assigns present on admission indicators and discharge dispositions • Queries physicians to clarify conflicting, imprecise, incomplete, ambiguous, and/or inconsistent clinical information when appropriate • Communicates documentation improvement opportunities and coding issues to appropriate personnel for follow up and resolution • Communicates with Clinical Documentation Improvement and/or Revenue Cycle teams for follow up and reconciliation of accounts • Maintains required productivity and quality requirements • Maintains coding credential requirements

🎯 Requirements

• Candidate must possess a valid CCS credential (AHIMA) • 3+ years of Inpatient coding in large Academic/Trauma 1 setting required (600+ bed facilities) • Must be proficient in ICD-10-CM and ICD-10-PCS coding • Experience with Epic & Solventum is preferred • Coders must have an understanding of Elixhauser codes (ID’d in the encoder) to ensure auto sequencing is occurring correctly and to code any and all Elixhauser comorbidities. • We need coders to have an awareness of Vizient data and impact to the organization if the case is a mortality and/or POA status is incorrect

🏖️ Benefits

• full benefits package including 401(k) with company match • medical • dental • vision • life • short/long term disability insurance • PTO policy