Loyola University Health System
IL, IL, USA
Employment Type:Full timeShift:Description:Under the general direction of the Coding Manager and/or Lead, the Coding Specialist is responsible for coding Inpatient accounts providing high level technical competency and subject matter expertise analyzingphysician/providerdocumentation contained in assigned Complex Outpatient (CO) and/or Inpatient health records to determine the principal diagnosis, secondary diagnoses, principal procedure and secondary procedures. Provides appropriate Medical Severity Diagnostic Related Groups (MS-DRG), Present on Admission (POA), Severity of Illness (SOI) & Risk of Mortality (ROM) assignments for Inpatient records and accurate APC assignments and all required modifiers for Complex Outpatient records.Codes diagnoses, treatments, procedures according to the appropriate classification system for the category of the patient's encounter. Majority of coding will be Medicare/Medicaid inpatient accounts.Assigns the diagnosis or procedures code with an...
