Westchester Medical Center
Valhalla, NY, USA
Job Summary : The Senior Coder is responsible for addressing appeals to insurance companies and coding highly complex medical records, including all diagnoses and operative and diagnostic procedures in patient medical records, using the current International Classification of Diseases (ICD), Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) and Health Care Financing Administration Common Procedures Coding System (HCPCS), and entering coded information into an automated grouper system. Technical guidance and acting in a lead role is expected. Does related work as required. Responsibilities: Addresses appeals to insurance denials to facilitate expedient resolution and reimbursement. Interprets and applies American Hospital Association Official Coding guidelines to articulate and support principle and secondary diagnoses and selected procedures. Identifies and analyzes patterns in possible coding errors or other trends and reports to the Supervising Medical Records Coder....