Outpatient Auditor III

🕒 September 2

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $70k - $90k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🔎 Auditor

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EXL

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10,000+ employees

🏥 Healthcare

🛡️ Insurance

📦 Logistics

💰 $2M Venture Round on 2015-01

Healthcare • Insurance • Logistics

EXL is a business consulting and services firm that focuses on leveraging data to enhance business operations and decision-making. With a strong emphasis on collaboration and adaptability, EXL partners with organizations to address their unique needs and culture while integrating data science and technology solutions. The company's areas of expertise include operations management, decision analytics, digital transformation, and various industries such as healthcare, finance, and insurance. EXL's mission is to help clients drive business evolution and maintain competitive advantage through tailored solutions and effective use of data.

📋 Description

• Perform detailed hospital outpatient facility audits focused on APC assignment, payment status indicators, revenue code alignment, and OPPS reimbursement logic • Review outpatient claims to validate CPT/HCPCS-to-APC mapping, including significant procedure, packaged, comprehensive, and composite APCs • Audit UB-04 facility claims for accurate CPT/HCPCS codes, modifiers, revenue codes, and charge structures • Evaluate APC packaging rules for ancillary services, supplies, minor procedures, and drug administration services • Audit infusion therapy, outpatient surgeries, imaging, and interventional radiology encounters • Validate billing of technical components, including nursing services, equipment, supplies, imaging contrast, and facility resources • Evaluate facility billing independently from professional claims • Apply CMS OPPS regulations, CPT rules, NCCI edits, and AHA Coding Clinic guidance • Identify overpayments, underpayments, misassigned APCs, inappropriate unbundling, and missed reimbursement opportunities • Use 3M, Webstrat, Optum Encoder, and EXL proprietary systems to analyze APC payment outcomes • Produce clear, defensible audit findings describing reimbursement impacts and compliance risks • Stay current on APC updates, OPPS rule changes, CMS transmittals, and payment indicator revisions • Meet or exceed EXL productivity, quality, and compliance standards

🎯 Requirements

• Active credential(s) such as CCS, RHIA, RHIT, or CPC • Minimum 3 years of hospital outpatient facility coding and/or auditing experience, with direct exposure to APC-driven reimbursement • Expertise in APC payment methodologies • Expertise in OPPS reimbursement logic • Expertise in CPT/HCPCS coding impact on APC assignment • Expertise in UB-04 facility billing requirements • Hands-on experience auditing infusion services, outpatient surgeries, and interventional radiology, including APC packaging and bundling scenarios • Strong understanding of payer contracts, claim adjudication, and reimbursement variance analysis • Advanced experience auditing complex APC encounters, including comprehensive and composite APC scenarios • In-depth knowledge of infusion and injection coding, including drug status indicators and packaged vs. paid drugs • Experience identifying retrospective overpayments tied to APC misassignment or improper unbundling • Proficiency with 3M, Webstrat, Optum Encoder, or similar tools • Ability to work independently in a high-volume remote audit environment • Strong written, verbal, and analytical communication skills, especially in explaining APC payment logic • Proficiency in Microsoft Excel, Word, OneNote, and related applications • A brief coding/auditing assessment may be included as part of the interview process

🏖️ Benefits

• Up to 10% annual travel for team meetings and limited client onsite engagements • Collaborative environment • Ongoing professional development • Mentorship and career growth • Remote flexibility with limited travel