Inpatient Coder- HospitalGuidehouse

What You Will Do:

• Demonstrates the ability to perform quality hospital coding on Inpatient accounts including Medicare/Non Medicare, Surgical, Medical, Cardiac, moms/babies, and trauma cases
• Maintains a working knowledge of ICD-10 PCS, governmental regulations, official coding guidelines, and third-party requirements regarding documentation and billing
• Assures that all services documented in the patients chart are coded with appropriate ICD-10/PCS codes
• When services/diagnoses are not documented appropriately, seeks to attain proper documentation in a timely manner according to facility standards
• Achieves and maintains 96% accuracy in coding while maintaining a high level of productivity
• Ability to maintain average productivity standards as follows: 1 IP charts per hour final coded (these productivity standards are Guidehouse general expectations and are subject to change based upon Guidehouse client agreements and/or other factors as determined by management. Notification of expected productivity will be conveyed by Management prior to assignment of a client project)
• Responsible for following facility specific policies and procedures
• Works pending queues daily
• Follows facility query policy and CDI reconciliation process
• Charts that require re-bills are corrected and communicated to the facility daily for the re-bill process. See re-bill policy in facility guidelines
• Coder downtime must be reported immediately to the administrative staff to ensure turnaround is met
• Provides accurate answers to physicians/hospitals coding and/or billing questions within eight hours of request

What You Will Need:

• High School Diploma or equivalent
• Must be hold one of the following credentials: RHIA, RHIT, CCS
• 5+ years of Inpatient Facility coding experience
• Rehab Inpatient Facility coding experience with admissions (IRF/PAI) & discharges

What Would Be Nice To Have:

• Knowledge of Anatomy, Physiology and Medical Terminology
• Associates Degree

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