CPSI

Job Summary: The Coding Advocate will handle medical coding and data entry / abstraction for various types of Hospital visits: Outpatient, Same Day Surgeries, and some Inpatient accounts. These Goals and objectives are not to be construed as a complete statement of all duties performed; employees will be required to perform other job related duties as required. Goals and objectives are subject to change. All activities must be in compliance with Equal Employment Opportunity laws, HIPAA, ERISA and other regulations, as appropriate. Essential Functions: In addition to working as prescribed in our Performance Factors specific responsibilities of this role include: • Inpatient: Accurately assigns ICD-10-CM and PCS primary and secondary diagnoses and procedure codes based on the documentation in the record and in accordance with the site specific guidelines and policies. Accurate assignment of the DRG. • Outpatient: Correctly assigns modifiers to chargemaster items and coder...