Children's Hospital Boston
Boston, MA, USA
79846BRJob Posting Title:HIM Inpatient Clinical Coder IIDepartment:Finance-Patient Financial ServicesAutoReqId:79846BRStatus:Full-TimeStandard Hours per Week:40 Job Posting Category:FinanceJob Posting Description:This HIM Inpatient Clinical Coder II will be responsible to: Abstract, sequence and assign diagnosis and procedure codes for inpatients according to the department's policies/guidelines, CMS Coding guidelines, CMS Correct Coding initiatives, ICD-10-CM coding conventions and Uniform Hospital Discharge Data Set (UHDDS) definitions Code cases such as trauma, post-procedure complications, more complex fractures and long-term monitoring and length of stay up to twenty days such as spinal fusions and V-P shunts; day surgery and observation outpatients, as required for reimbursement and maintenance of patient database Assign CPT-4 procedure codes, adds modifiers as needed, analyze and assign grouper utilizing specialized computer software Follow-up on outstanding uncoded and...