Job Description
Under limited supervision, responsible for conducting the quality review of inpatient and outpatient coding, assures coding compliance with federal regulations, and maintains up-to-date coding guidelines and coding policy changes.
Responsibilities
- Reviews, interprets, and assigns diagnostic and procedural codes based upon medical record documentation according to correct coding principles.
- Provides skilled and specialized technical work in documentation and coding for medical billing, abstracts complex patient-related data from medical records and coding of diagnoses and procedures using ICD-10 and CPT codes.
- Works coding related charge review and claim edits daily to ensure timely and accurate billing.
- Researches and resolves coding related issues, and assists in meeting productivity and quality standards.
- Contacts other facilities to obtain medical records and information need to bill for services rendered.
- Verifies fee tickets and physician notes for completeness to include abstracting and entering relevant medical information from the medical records; checks for required signatures; assures proper documentation guidelines are followed.
- Interacts with regulator classification agencies and patients when clarification and additional information is required for documentation.
- Reviews charge documents for completeness.
- Updates coding books with changes as accepted and published by regulatory agencies.
- Performs all other duties as assigned.
Qualifications
- Proficiency in ICD-10 and CPT coding.
- In-depth understanding of medical terminology, anatomy and physiology.
- Meticulous attention to detail and accuracy.
- A solid customer service acumen and interpersonal skills to effectively work with both internal and external customers and responds to requests in a timely and respectful manner.
- Strong verbal, written and interpersonal communication skills.
Education
- High school diploma or GED is required.
Required Skills
- Five (5) years experience in medical record abstraction and coding is required.