Medical Coding Educator – Analyst

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🗽 New York – Remote

🗽 New York – Remote

💵 $60.4k - $84.6k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🏥 Medical Billing and Coding

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UR Ventures

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11 - 50 employees

📚 Education

🤝 B2B

🔬 Science

Education • B2B • Science

UR Ventures is the innovation and commercialization arm of the University of Rochester, focused on advancing research and academic entrepreneurship. It connects university faculty and researchers with industry partners to facilitate the development of new technologies and businesses that can positively impact society. UR Ventures promotes collaboration, creativity, and knowledge transfer, thereby contributing to the university's mission of making the world ever better.

📋 Description

• Collaborates with coding and clinical documentation integrity management, plays a critical role in ensuring the accuracy, completeness, and compliance of coding practices within the organization. • Develops and delivers coding education programs, conducts regular coding audits, analyzes coding data to identify trends and areas for improvement, and serves as a subject matter expert on coding guidelines and regulations. • Fosters a culture of continuous learning and coding excellence among our coding staff and clinical documentation team for the accurate and timely assignment of diagnostic and procedural codes for complex patient encounters. • Provides expert-level coding guidance, education, and quality review for all coding staff. • Acts as a subject matter expert, ensuring coding compliance, data integrity, process improvements, system implementations and upgrades, and optimal reimbursement while supporting the professional development of the coding team.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Health Information Management, Healthcare Administration, Nursing or a related healthcare field and 4 years of inpatient coding experience in an acute care setting required. • Or equivalent combination of education and experience. • Expert Coding Knowledge, including in-depth understanding of ICD-10-CM/PCS, CPT, HCPCS, MS-DRGs, APR-DRGs, APCs, and NCCI edits preferred. • Strong knowledge of HIPAA, CMS regulations, OIG guidelines, and other relevant healthcare compliance standards preferred. • Ability to analyze complex data, identify trends, and draw actionable conclusions preferred. • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to present complex information clearly and concisely to broad audiences preferred. • Proven ability to develop effective training materials and deliver engaging educational sessions preferred. • Proficient in Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems, coding encoder software, and Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) preferred. • Strong ability to build rapport, collaborate effectively, and provide constructive feedback preferred. • Meticulous attention to detail in auditing and documentation review preferred. • Proactive approach to identifying and resolving coding and documentation challenges preferred. • Certified Coding Specialist (CCS) required OR Registered Health Information Administrator (RHIA) required OR Registered Health Information Technician (RHIT) upon hire required.