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Trinity Health: Coder IV Inpatient Coder (Remote) Employment Type: Full time Shift: Description: Provides high level technical competency and subject matter expertise analyzing physician/provider documentation in Inpatient health records to determine the principal diagnosis, secondary diagnoses, principal procedure, and secondary procedures. Assigns appropriate Medicare Severity Diagnosis Related Groups (MS-DRG), All Patient Refined DRGs (APR), Present on Admission (POA), as well as Severity of Illness (SOI) & Risk of Mortality (ROM) indicators for Inpatient records. Identifies Hospital Acquired Conditions (HAC), Patient Safety Indicators (PSI) to ensure accurate hospital reimbursement. Utilizes encoder software applications, which includes all applicable online tools and references in the assignment of International Classification of Diseases, Clinical Modification (ICD-CM) diagnosis and procedure codes, MS-DRG, APR DRG, POA, SOI & ROM assignments. ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:...

Description Codes outpatient charts and/or professional charts and abstracts all required data from records according to established procedures; including medical necessity for Medicare charts. Uses ICD-10 CM/PCS/CPT-4/chargemaster to code all diagnoses, operative procedures and physician procedures performed for outpatient procedures. Verifies/changes levels of care provided according to level of care guidelines. Captures all missing records and documentation, i.e. IV start/stop times, etc. Interacts with physicians and physician's offices regarding diagnoses or coding questions. Performs other work as needed to help within the department. Keeps current with coding practices and skills through in-services, seminars, workshops and current literature to increase coding knowledge. Reviews the entire medical record for identification of all documented conditions, diagnoses and procedures. Demonstrates the ability to read physicians handwriting and interpret...