Salary Range: ####/hour - ####/hour (based on education and experience)
***THIS IS A REMOTE POSITION, HOWEVER, CANDIDATE MUST BE CURRENTLY LOCATED IN OKLAHOMA OR WILLING TO RELOCATE.***
18% Permanent Placement Fee
Requirement description :
The RI Coder at Norman Regional Health System, as a component of the Documentation Integrity Department, works to provide timely and compliant coding for all patient encounters. They strive to tell the story of the patient's experience through the use of accurate and specific code assignment allowing regulatory agencies and payers the ability to accurately determine the services provided.
The Documentation Integrity department is comprised of coding, clinical documentation improvement, and denials professionals who work together daily to ensure the most optimal and accurate picture is presented for the patients and communities they serve via the diagnosis and procedural coding, appropriate patient admission status and denial appeal processing, when necessary.
RI Coder essential functions include, but are not limited to:
- Codes a limited amount of patient type records to create the hospital's case mix index database and health statistical indices.
- Audits, codes, and abstracts diagnostic and procedural information and assigns optimal diagnostic related group (MS-DRG or APC).
- Coding Software - 3M***
Norman Regional provides generous benefits for their employees, who they call healers. Those include:
- Generous Paid Time Off (PTO) accrual
- Unique PTO-bridging opportunity for rehired healers
- Medical with three plan options including a High Deductible Health Plan, Dental, and Vision
- Retirement plan which includes 457 deferred compensation with match
- Employer-provided Life Insurance
- Optional expanded life insurance
- Optional catastrophic insurance
- Employee Assistance Program
- Option for Short-or-Long-term Disability
- Bereavement leave
- Free parking
- Nursing differentials
- Nurse extern program
- The ONLY ANCC accredited Nurse Residency program in the state of Oklahoma
- Tuition reimbursement up to ####,000 per year
- Education calendar
- Clinical ladder
- Simulation lab
- Shift differentials
- Foundation opportunities
- Gain sharing opportunity for system-wide successes
- Unit-based council opportunities
CERTIFICATION REQUIREMENTS :
Weekend Requirements : n/a
On Call Requirements : n/a