Senior Certified Inpatient Coding Specialist

🔥 12 hours ago

🌪️ Kansas, Louisiana, +5 more states – Remote

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⏰ Full Time

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🏥 Medical Billing and Coding

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Memorial Hermann Health System

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10,000+ employees

⚕️ Healthcare Insurance

🏥 Healthcare

🧘 Wellness

💰 $5M Grant on 2022-08

Healthcare Insurance • Healthcare • Wellness

Memorial Hermann Health System is a comprehensive healthcare organization that provides a wide range of medical services, including cancer care, cardiovascular services, emergency and trauma care, women’s health, and surgical services. With the largest network of emergency centers in Greater Houston, it focuses on delivering advanced healthcare and wellness programs tailored to individual needs. Memorial Hermann is committed to advancing health equity and enhancing community health through its various medical facilities and services.

📋 Description

• Review and abstract inpatient medical records • Identify and accurately assign diagnosis, procedure and service codes in inpatient settings • Collect and include data elements required for federal or state reporting and billing • Review documentation for pertinent diagnoses and procedures requiring code assignment • Code diagnoses and procedures using ICD-10 conventions for reimbursement, research and regulatory compliance • Review records for diagnostic and procedural specificity and appropriate reimbursement • Query physicians when documentation is inadequate, ambiguous, unclear or coding assignments are not straightforward • Monitor coding and reimbursement reporting guidelines and escalate concerns to the manager • Assign ICD-10 codes and DRGs to inpatient records • Maintain 92%–95% accuracy in ICD-10 and DRG assignment and meet productivity standards while minimizing abstracting errors • Follow AHIMA Standards of Ethical Coding and official coding guidelines • Adhere to Memorial Hermann policies, procedures and service standards • Complete mandatory/continuing education and skills competency requirements • Support department goals and mentor less experienced staff • Perform other duties as assigned

🎯 Requirements

• High School Diploma or GED required • Associate degree in Health Information Management or any Healthcare Related Field preferred • One of RHIT, RHIA, CCA, CCS, or CIC coding certifications from AHIMA or AAPC required • Five (5) years of inpatient hospital coding experience required • Experience coding in a level 1 trauma facility/academic teaching facility strongly preferred • Effective oral and written communication skills • Strong knowledge of ICD-10-CM and PCS coding • Analytical skills to interpret health-record data and assign appropriate codes • Strong knowledge of human anatomy, physiology, medical terminology and surgical terminology • Critical thinking, judgment and decision-making skills • Knowledge of coding compliance policies, official coding guidelines, regulatory requirements and internal coding procedures • Proficiency navigating a Windows-based application environment • Must be located in Texas, Kansas, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Louisiana, Georgia, South Carolina, or North Carolina, or be willing to relocate to one of these eligible states

🏖️ Benefits

• Mandatory/continuing education and skills competency support • Individual professional growth and development opportunities • Serves as preceptor, mentor and resource to less experienced staff • Safe, caring, personalized and efficient workplace experiences • Time management, supply management, productivity and quality-of-service support within budgetary specifications