Box Butte General Hospital
Alliance, NE, USA
Title: Inpatient/Outpatient Coder - Certified Reporting Relationship: Health Information Manager General Summary of Responsibilities: The employee is responsible for analyzing medical records in order to code and abstract medical information for inpatient/outpatient encounters both medical and surgical using correct codes from ICD-9-CM, and/or ICD-10-CM Diagnosis AND Procedure/PCS AND CPT coding guidelines to be submitted for financial reimbursement as required for the Uniform Bill and for the DRG (Diagnosis Related Group). All Coding Guidelines are to be utilized and adhered to. Assign appropriate CPT codes and modifiers as well as CPT anesthesia codes. Assign codes using the 3M encoder with finalization/releasing of records in EMR system. Knowledge of using encoder as well as ICD-9-CM; ICD-10-CM and ICD-10-PCS and CPT coding books. Correctly sort the records after coding for doctors boxes for final signatures or refer to Electronic Medical Records Technicians for...