University of Maryland Medical System
Baltimore, MD
Senior Inpatient Coder - Remote
Monday - Friday 6AM-6PM ET (40 hours/week)
Under direct supervision, accurately codes hospital inpatient accounts for the purpose of appropriate reimbursement, research, statistics, and compliance to federal and state regulations in accordance with established ICD-10-CM/PCS coding classification systems.
Responsibilities
Serves as a clinical coding subject matter expert, and utilizes critical thinking to analyze and evaluate documentation issues with consultation from the medical and clinical staff, and clinical documentation specialists as needed.
Analyzes, codes and abstracts complex inpatient cases such as trauma, rehab, neurology, critical care, etc., utilizing the ICD-10-CM and ICD-10-PCS nomenclature to ensure accurate APR-DRG/SOI/ROM and POA assignment.
Collaborates with other senior coders (and the other coding staff) by sharing coding information and providing coding advice to colleagues regarding complex cases to be coded.
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