Veterans Health Administration
Beckley, WV, USA
Summary This position is located in the Health Information Management (HIM) section at the Beckley VA Medical Center. MRTs (Coder) are skilled in classifying medical data from patient health records in the hospital setting, and/or physician-based settings, such as physician offices, group practices, multi-specialty clinics, and specialty centers. These coding practitioners analyze and abstract patients' health records and assign alphanumeric codes for each diagnosis and procedure. Duties Help FUNCTIONS: Complete and accurate diagnostic and procedural coded data are necessary for research, epidemiology, outcomes and statistical analysis, financial and strategic planning, reimbursement, evaluation of quality of care, and communication to support the patient's treatment. Selects and assigns codes from the current version of several coding systems to include ICD, CPT, and/or HCPCS. Assigns codes to documented patient care encounters (outpatient and/or inpatient...