Job Description
Responsibilities
- Review documentation to code diagnosis and procedures
- Communicate with physicians to obtain or clarify diagnosis and/or procedures via the query process
- Assign accurate codes utilizing an electronic encoder application in accordance with practice policy and regulatory guidelines
- Perform Peer Reviews of Company Health Information Management coding auditors and code
- Complete reports as requested
- Maintain minimum accuracy rate of 98% while meeting internal productivity standards set by company
- Maintain productivity expectations: inpatient 24 encounters per day, 3 encounters per hour, 20 minutes to code each encounter
- AHIMA credential
- Minimum 3 years IP coding experience at an Academic/Trauma Level 1 facility
- APR DRG experience
- Experience must include all IP areas/service types – anything and everything an inpatient admission would be required for
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