Veterans Health Administration
Tucson, AZ, USA
Summary This position is located in the Health Information Management (HIM) section at the Southern Arizona VA Health Care System (SAVAHS). MRTs (Coder) are skilled in classifying medical data from patient health records in the hospital setting, and/or physician-based settings, such as physician offices, group practices, multi-specialty clinics, and specialty centers. Duties Help Duties include, but are not limited to: Outpatient MRTs (Coder) at this level perform the full scope of outpatient coding including ambulatory surgical cases, diagnostic studies and procedures, outpatient encounters, and/or inpatient professional services. Outpatient duties consist of the performance of a comprehensive review of documentation within the health record to accurately assign ICD-10-CM codes for diagnoses, CPT/HCPCS codes for surgeries, procedures and evaluation and management services. They independently review and abstract clinical data from the record for documentation of...