Lead Inpatient Coder

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🔔 Pennsylvania – Remote

🔔 Pennsylvania – Remote

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🏥 Medical Billing and Coding

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Lehigh Valley Health Network

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10,000+ employees

🏥 Healthcare

⚕️ Healthcare Insurance

Healthcare • Healthcare Insurance

Lehigh Valley Health Network is a comprehensive healthcare system that is now part of Jefferson Health, one of the top 15 not-for-profit health systems in the United States. It offers a wide range of medical services, including primary care, urgent care, and specialized institutes like the Lehigh Valley Topper Cancer Institute and the Lehigh Valley Heart and Vascular Institute. LVHN provides extensive care solutions, including video visits, second opinions, and a network of doctors and clinicians in numerous locations. It emphasizes education through residencies and fellowships and prioritizes patient-centric services such as lab testing and women's health care. The network also focuses on innovation, offering clinical trials and advanced therapies like CAR-T Cell Therapy.

📋 Description

• Assist management with daily coding activities, department priorities, and initiatives • Precept new staff and support remote onboarding training • Suggest workflow enhancements • Resolve billing edits and test EHR updates • Collaborate with Coding staff, CDI, and Quality Reviewers to facilitate accurate coding and timely completion • Serve as a source for coding questions, education, quality and productivity guidelines, and workflows • Lead with ancillary departments to resolve coding and operations issues • Perform ICD-10-CM/CPT coding and data abstraction • Act as a lead contact and resource for coding staff regarding coding questions and workflow assistance • Address coding-related questions and issues from CDI, Business Services, and other hospital departments • Facilitate coding completion to meet departmental KPIs and goals • Refer coding issues to the supervisor for determination and guideline development

🎯 Requirements

• 10 years of experience coding inpatient medical records • Perform ICD-10-CM/CPT coding and data abstraction within established accuracy and productivity rates • Knowledge of problem-solving approaches, tools, and techniques • Analytical thinking and root-cause analysis • Effective written and verbal communication • Medical information coding knowledge • Knowledge of healthcare diagnosis and procedure coding • Industry knowledge and understanding of regulatory considerations • Health information concepts and terminology, including anatomy, physiology, medical disciplines, diagnoses, procedures, treatments, legal/data standards, statistics, and quality management • Must hold one of: RHIA, RHIT, CPC, or CCS certification • Bachelor’s degree in Health Information Management, Nursing, Business Administration, Health Administration, or related field preferred • Ability to lift and carry 25 lbs. • Frequent sitting/standing and keyboard use

🏖️ Benefits

• Equal opportunity employment • Educational programs and/or social activities • Remote work arrangement • Monday-Friday work schedule, 8:00a-4:30p