Location: Remote (cannot be from Ohio/CA/Washington State/North Dakota/NY)
Schedule/Hours: Flex schedule. Can start as early as 5am in their timezone and be on as late as 7pm. Need to be on latest at 10am (Core hours 5am-2pm) 30 min lunch after 6 consecutive hours worked. Must work at least 1 hour when they log on.
Required Skills
- CPC, RHIT, or AHIMA Certification
- Epic
- 3-5 years inpatient/DRG/HB/surgical coding (with specialty experience)
- Equipment: Must have their own computer. Teams/Samantic VIP access on their phone
Responsibilities
- Assigns ICD-10-CM, ICD-10-PCS, and DRG codes to hospital inpatient records.
- Reviews and interprets physician documentation to appropriately assign diagnosis and procedure codes.
- Communicates with and provides feedback to the education team and/or providers.
- Reviews patient charges to determine necessary coding to complete the account.
- Identifies principle and secondary diagnoses and procedure codes from the electronic medical record.
- Utilizes the encoder or coding books to generate ICD-10-CM, ICD-10-PCS, and DRG codes for diagnosis and procedures.
- Sequences diagnosis and procedures to generate appropriate billing.
- Utilizes other available resources for assignment of codes as necessary (e.g., Epic, MIQS, Cardio IMS, and coding reference materials).
- Assists other coders in resolving coding problems.
- Completes abstracts for records as appropriate.
- Assists in correction of problem accounts.
- Reviews charts for completeness.
- Participates in education and maintains certification.
- Assists in auditing records.
- Maintains concurrent coding for inpatient records.