Medical Coder
This is a remote based position. Applicants can be located nationwide.
We are looking for someone with professional outpatient coding experience. You will be responsible for assigning accurate Evaluation and Management (E&M) ICD-10-CM, ICD-10-PCS, current procedural terminology (CPT), and Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System (HCPCS) codes, modifiers, and quantities derived from medical record documentation for encounters dependent upon record type.
Responsibilities include:
- Tell us about your experience with professional outpatient coding.
- Are you a team player and a self-motivator?
- What is your experience with conducting business in a way that is credit to a company?
- We are counting on you to manage multiple projects using your problem-solving skills.
- We are looking for someone uncommon. What is uncommon about you?
- Are you highly committed? Are you team-oriented? Do you value professionalism, trust, honesty, and integrity?
About the position:
- Assign the principal and secondary diagnoses and procedures by thoroughly reviewing all documentation in the medical record utilizing knowledge of anatomy, physiology, medical terminology, and pathology.
- Review the discharge summary, history and physical, physician progress notes, consultation reports, radiology, laboratory, pathology, operative records, emergency room record to accurately assign diagnosis and/or procedure.
- Assigns and ensures correct code selection following Official Coding Guidelines and compliance with federal and insurance regulations.
- Ensure the diagnoses and procedures are sequenced in order of their clinical significance to accurately assign the appropriate DRG, APC or payment tier under the Prospective Payment system to guarantee accurate reimbursement.
- Review coding for accuracy and completeness prior to submission to billing.
- Abstract required medical and demographic information from the medical record and enter the data into the system to ensure accuracy of the database.
- Meets coding quality and quantity expectations.
Minimum requirements:
- Minimum 2 years of medical coding experience required.
- Experience with professional fee coding.
- Experience with EHR systems.
- Accepted certifications from American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) or American Academy of Professional Coders (AAPC) include:
- Registered Health Information Management Technician (RHIT)
- Registered Health Information Administrator (RHIA)
- Certified Coding Associate (CCA) *
- Certified Coding Specialist (CCS)
- Certified Coding Specialist- Physician-Based (CCS-P)
- Certified Professional Coder (CPC)
About us:
We are looking for people to help us in our mission of working hard at lowering healthcare administrative costs for federal government agencies, payers, and providers. At Signature, our mission is to improve the health of our clients' business and make the lives of the people we work with better. As we continue to experience exponential growth, we are looking for uncommon individuals to enhance our vision.
We need uncommon leaders with uncommon qualities to shape our uncommon culture and achieve our uncommon mission.
About the benefits:
- Health insurance
- Fully paid life insurance
- Fully paid short- & long-term disability
- Paid vacation
- Paid sick leave
- Paid holidays
- Professional development and tuition assistance program
- 401(k) program with employer match
Security requirements:
- U.S. citizenship, naturalized citizenship, or permanent status is required for this position.
- All work on all positions at Signature Performance must be completed in the continental United States, Alaska, or Hawaii.
Work schedule:
- Monday - Friday 8:00a - 5:00p CST
Compensation range: $26.00 - $28.00/hour
Position type: Full time
Equal opportunity employer minorities/women/protected veterans/disabled