Job Opportunity: Coder Outpatient Surgery
Baptist Health is looking for a Coder Outpatient Surgery to join their team! This is a remote position that requires residency in KY or IN.
Function in a fully accountable role with respect to ensuring the overall quality of outpatient surgery and observation coding with continuous quality improvement when indicated. The coder ensures that accurate and complete coding is performed so it can be used for measuring and reporting physician and hospital outcomes. The coder maintains an extensive up-to-date knowledge of clinical coding and has an extensive knowledge of the documentation requirements and guidelines in accordance with Coding Clinic and AHA Official Coding Guidelines as they pertain to diagnosis and procedural coding.
Essential duties include:
- Ensuring that accurate and complete coding is performed on outpatient surgery and observation encounters to be used for all reporting agencies and for measuring and reporting of physician and hospital outcomes.
- Utilizing and being proficient with ICD 10-CM and CPT coding.
- Maintaining knowledge of up-to-date coding guidelines as well as knowledge of changes as they relate to AHA Coding Clinic and CPT Assistant.
- Maintaining knowledge of anatomy and physiology, medical terminology, and medical procedures.
- Maintaining extensive, up-to-date knowledge of Local and National Coverage Determinations and other CMS transmittals as related to outpatient surgery and observation coding.
- Maintaining proficiency with the electronic health record, coding software, and all other coding and documentation systems required to accurately code and abstract a claim while producing a clean claim.
- Reviewing the medical record at the time of coding to evaluate whether existing documentation supports diagnosis and procedure code assignment or whether additional clarification is needed through defined and compliant process for provider queries.
- Performing coding and abstracts all required data fields according to the standardized policies and procedures determined by management team.
- Ensuring all ADT information is accurate on all outpatient encounters.
- Maintaining quality and quantity standard of work performed as set by system management team.
- Reviewing all coding edits and track errors as requested for contract coders.
Qualifications:
- High School/GED with 2 years job related experience.
- RHIT, RHIA, CCS, CPC, or COC required.
If you would like to be part of a growing family focused on supporting clinical excellence, teamwork, and innovation, we urge you to apply now!
Baptist Health is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer.