Inpatient Coding Specialist II

🔥 17 hours ago

🏄 California – Remote

🏄 California – Remote

💵 $66 - $74 / hour

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🏥 Medical Billing and Coding

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Stanford Health Care is a major academic medical center affiliated with Stanford Medicine. It provides world-renowned patient care, emphasizes innovation and research, and offers a wide range of clinical services and career opportunities across nursing, advanced practice, allied health, laboratory, technology, administration, and other areas. The organization promotes values such as C-I-CARE (respect, courtesy, personal connection), sustainability, dedication, and community collaboration across physicians, researchers, professors, and students to advance health, healing, and knowledge globally.

📋 Description

• Review medical record documentation and assign accurate ICD-10 diagnosis and procedure codes • Assign the correct MS-DRG or APR-DRG, discharge disposition, admission source, and POA indicators • Abstract required data according to facility specifications • Monitor Discharged Not Billed accounts and ensure timely, compliant inpatient account processing • Collaborate with Clinical Documentation Specialists and medical staff to ensure complete documentation • Maintain established quality and productivity standards • Stay current with CMS requirements, CCI edits, HACs, PSIs, NCDs, LCDs, and modifiers • Use 3M Encoder, 3M Audit Expert, 3M CDIS, abstracting systems, Epic, MS Office, and other software to validate medical information • Follow Stanford Health Care policies and procedures • Attend required meetings, educational sessions, and annual learning programs

🎯 Requirements

• High School Diploma or GED equivalent • Five (5) years of progressively responsible and directly related work experience • Successful completion of the Coder Proficiency Exam (pre-hire) • Ability to comply with the American Health Information Management Association’s Code of Ethics and Standards and apply Uniform Hospital Discharge Data Set (UHDDS) standards • Ability to utilize ICD-10-CM/PCS and CPT-4 coding conventions; abstract information from medical records; read medical record documentation; assign accurate codes for MS-DRGs and APR-DRGs • Knowledge of diagnosis/procedure DRG grouping schemes such as MS-DRGs and APR-DRGs • Knowledge of health information systems, medical records coding systems, medical terminology, anatomy and physiology, and diseases • Knowledge of Correct Coding Initiatives (CCI) and CMS compliance issues • RHIA, RHIT, or CCS certification • Ability to use computer systems and software used in the functional area

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