Westchester Medical Center Health Network
Valhalla, NY, USA
Senior Inpatient Coder – Westchester Medical Center Health Network
Senior Inpatient Coder is responsible for addressing appeals to insurance companies and coding highly complex medical records using the current International Classification of Diseases (ICD10 CM/PCS codes) and entering coded information into an automated grouper system. Technical guidance and acting in a lead role is expected.
Responsibilities
Addresses appeals to insurance denials to facilitate expedient resolution and reimbursement.
Interprets and applies American Hospital Association Official Coding guidelines to articulate and support principle and secondary diagnoses and selected procedures.
Identifies and analyzes patterns in possible coding errors or other trends and reports to the coding leadership team.
Participates in mandated medical record review processes.
Using current ICD10 CM/PCS coding systems, assigns and records an accurate code to all diagnoses, procedures and operations as documented by...