McLaren Medical Group
Shelby, MI
Coding And Documentation Education Specialist Position Summary: Responsible for working with and providing on-going coding and documentation education (quarterly, annually and ad-hock) for physicians, coders, ancillary department staff, clinical documentation improvement (CDI), and other allied health professionals to improve documentation of patient care and to appropriately assign codes and/or determine charges to support those services. Essential Functions and Responsibilities As Assigned : 1. Completes quality assurance audits on inpatient and outpatient coding specialists, onboarding audits and training of newly hired coding specialists, validating the coding specialist is accurately abstracting data into medical record systems, following coding guidelines and directives. 2. Validates Present on Admission (POA) indicators according to guidelines and identifies any missing or inappropriate queries to providers. 3. Uses payment methodology to audit outpatient and/or...