Rice Community Health
Lyons, KS
Job Details Job Location: Rice Community Hospital - Lyons, KS 67554
Position Type: Full Time
Job Title: Certified Coder
Department: Health Information Management
Reports To: Director of Health Information Management
FLSA: Non-Exempt
Job Summary As a Medical Coder, you will play a crucial role by analyzing patient records to adhere to internal policies and processes that are consistent with coding guidelines and reimbursement policies. Coder’s purpose is to help to improve the accuracy, integrity and quality of patient data, ensure minimal variation in coding practices, and improve the quality of the physician documentation within the body of the medical record to support code assignments.
Essential Functions Reviews medical record thoroughly to ensure charges, diagnoses/procedures and appropriate modifiers are on accounts.
Abstracting documentation within the record into 3M Coding Software.
Query appropriate physician on incomplete, missing or vague documentation.
Codes all...