Lead Profesional Coding - Edits

Ruby Memorial Hospital (wvuh)lead

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EDUCATION, CERTIFICATION, AND/OR LICENSURE: 1. High School Diploma or Equivalent. 2. Current HIM/Coding Certification through ONE of the fo

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About the Role

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Serves as lead responsible for monitoring, maintaining and coordinating work assignments. Performs ongoing audits of select inpatients and outpatient accounts and provides training to ensure optimum reimbursement and hospital coding compliance. Ensures accurate and appropriate information is documented, coded, and entered into the system(s) in order to meet departmental, hospital and outside agency requirements. This includes appropriate reimbursement, verification, compliance, and charging with the various coding guidelines and regulatory agencies. Responsible for obtaining accurate and complete documentation in the medical record for accurate coding assignment, severity of illness and risk of mortality for each medical record.

Requirements

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EDUCATION, CERTIFICATION, AND/OR LICENSURE:

1. High School Diploma or Equivalent.

2. Current HIM/Coding Certification through ONE of the following:

American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA)

American Academy of Professional Coders (AAPC)

EXPERIENCE:

1. Four (4) years of medical coding experience.

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United States of America (Non-Exempt)

539 SYSTEM HIM Provider Based Coding Analysis

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