Memorial Healthcare

JOB SUMMARY Under the direct supervision of Professional Coding and CDI Manager, The Professional Coder provides timely and accurate clinical and administration data to ensure optimal reimbursement for professional services performed at acute care, inpatient, outpatient, urgent care or physician offices to meet organizational needs. This position is responsible for ICD10CM diagnosis, CPT-4 coding and charge entry related to coding, documentation, billing and reimbursement issues. Works as a liaison between centralized billing staff, practice managers and office staff and may be required to meet with the office staff and physicians as needed. This position is responsible for the monitoring the quality of coding and stays current on professional coding changes, compliance issues, billing, documentation, reimbursement and interpretation of coding/documentation rules. Strives for superior performance by consistently providing a product or service to leadership and staff that is...

JOB SUMMARY The Health Information Management (HIM) Coder impacts Memorial's Healthcare quality initiatives and reimbursement through the assignment of the most accurate and optimal diagnosis and procedural codes to individual patient health information for data retrieval, analysis, and claims processing. Under the direction of the Health Information Management (HIM) Coding and Clinical Documentation Integrity (CDI) Manager, this position will code and analyze physician documentation contained in health records (electronic, paper or hybrid) to determine the appropriate principal diagnosis, secondary diagnoses, and procedures codes to accurately capture MS-DRG assignment. Use the Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) / Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System (HCPCS) procedure codes and all required modifiers in accordance with coding rules and regulations. The coding information is used to determine APC's (Ambulatory Payment Classification) for data quantitative analysis,...