Medical Coder III, Cardiology Experience Required

🕒 February 17

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Savista

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 1994

⚕️ Healthcare Insurance

Healthcare Insurance

Savista is a full-service revenue cycle management provider with over 30 years of experience in the healthcare industry. They support healthcare organizations in improving financial outcomes by offering services such as AR management, denial management, clinical documentation integrity, eligibility & enrollment, and HIM outsourcing. Savista works as an extension of healthcare teams to optimize processes and increase efficiency to ensure compliance and drive patient-centered service quality. The company has garnered recognition and industry accolades for its effective and quality solutions.

📋 Description

• Medical Coders are responsible for review and submission of 64 encounters per day or 8 per hour related to evaluation & management, procedures, testing, monitoring and hospital services daily. • Must be comfortable with discussing coding and guidelines with providers in a collaborative and professional manner. • This position will assist with work que evaluation and update of pending encounter status and service lines. • Will work with leadership on projects for coding as needed to assist with workflows. • Medical coding of Cardiology evaluation and management, Non-Invasive procedures, Remote and Pacer Monitoring, Cardiac Cath and Electrophysiology billing. • Coder will be required to be able to charge extract, correctly apply diagnosis, correctly apply modifiers, understand NCCI edits and other regulatory requirements. • Coder will be in regular communication via email and messaging with the clinic staff to ensure compliant and appropriate coding. • Maintains coding knowledge and billing regulations associated with CPT and ICD-10 codes, and modifiers. • Review assigned CPT, HCPCS and ICD-10 diagnosis codes for accuracy prior to submission. • Consults with Coding Managers on any edit discrepancies. • Demonstrated ability to work independently with minimal supervision. • Complete assigned work functions utilizing appropriate resources. • Participate in client and staff meetings, trainings, and conference calls as requested and/or required. • Participate in continuing education activities to enhance knowledge, skills, and maintain current credentials. • Must be able to work denials for insurance follow-up and work collaboratively with Accounts Receivable Team.

🎯 Requirements

• 3-5+ years professional coding experience in Cardiology required. • Proficient in medical terminology, anatomy, physiology, pharmacology and pathophysiology. • Active AAPC (American Academy of Professional Coders) COC, CPC or Active AHIMA (American Health Information Management Association) CCS at the time of hire. • Extreme attention to detail with the ability to prioritize assignments to meet deadlines. • Strong knowledge of EPIC, Cerner, Microsoft Office. • PowerPoint and TEAMS. • Must display excellent interpersonal and problem-solving skills with all levels of internal and external customers. • Proficient in teaching facility guidelines. • Recent and relevant experience in an active coding production environment strongly preferred. • Maintains 95% coding accuracy rate and client's productivity standards. • Ability to elaborate on findings and guidelines with providers on issues identified within daily workflow.