McLaren Health Care Corporation
Des Moines, IA, USA
Position Summary: Responsible for working with physicians, coders, ancillary department staff, clinical documentation improvement (CDI), and other allied health professionals to improve documentation of patient care and to appropriately assign codes and/or determine charges to support those services.
Essential Functions and Responsibilities:
Completes quality assurance audits on inpatient and outpatient coding specialists, onboarding audits and training of newly hired coding specialists, validating the coding specialist is accurately abstracting data into medical record systems, following the all coding guidelines and directives.
Validates Present on Admission (POA) indicators according to guidelines and identifies any missing or inappropriate queries to providers.
Uses payment methodology to audit outpatient facility coding and billing, APC assignment, and OPPS reimbursement methodology and shares knowledge with colleagues and clinical team members.
Performs retrospective,...