Coder 3

Baptist Memorial Health Care Corporation; Memphis (TN); On-site; USD 52,000 - 74,000; Full time

Job summary

Baptist Memorial Health Care Corporation is seeking a skilled coder to handle physician and outpatient records coding, contributing to reimbursement and research data. The role includes education and support for providers and staff.

You will lead onboarding for new staff and participate in documenting new workflows, while assisting in initiatives to improve medical necessity across facilities.

Qualifications

• Over one year of experience coding physician/professional outpatient records.
• Experience with ICD-9-CM and CPT-4 grading, documentation, and education.
• Ability to communicate clearly in written and verbal English to support productivity.

Responsibilities

• Code diagnoses and procedures from patient records.
• Serve as a resource to providers, staff, and case managers.
• Lead onboarding and education for staff on specialized workflows.
• Assist in researching new specialty areas and documentation improvements.
• Collaborate with new acquisitions on medical necessity education.

Skills

ICD-9-CM CPT-4 coding

Clinical documentation

English communication

Education

Associates degree

Tools

Coding software

Job description

Overview

Job Summary

Codes diagnoses and procedures of patient records and abstracting information for reimbursement, research, and to generate statistical data. Perform daily feedback and education to providers, staff and patients of BMG. Assist with education of current coding staff. Performs other duties as assigned.

Responsibilities

• Codes diagnoses and procedures of records.
• Completes assigned goals.
• Serves as a resource to physican office staff, clinical documentation specialist, case managers, etc.
• Act as lead for the team, assisting in onboarding of new staff and/or education of more specialized workflows.
• Assist in research of new speciality areas, new treatments in medicine, etc.
• Work with new acquisitions on documentation improvement and medical necessity, including education.

Specifications

Experience

Minimum Required

• Over one year of experience in physician /professional, outpatient surgery, and/or emergency department coding. Skill and proficiency in coding physician/professional outpatient (ancillary, emergency department, or outpatient surgery, etc) records utilizing ICD-9-CM and CPT-4 . Two years experience in an acute care facility, professional office or integrated health system. One year of documented successful physician education.

Preferred/Desired

Education

Minimum Required

• Skill and proficiency in coding physician/professional and outpatient (ancillary, emergency department, oupatient surgery, etc. ) records utilizing ICD-9-CM and CPT -4 through 5 years experience in an acute care facility, professional office or intergrated health system. Skill in communicating clearly and effectively using standard English in written, oral and verbal format to achieve high productivity and efficiency. Skill to write legibly and record information accurately as necessary to perform job duties. CPC, CPC-H, CPC-P, CCS, CCS-P, RHIT, RHIA

Preferred/Desired

• Associates degree

Training

Minimum Required

• CPC, CPC-H, CPC-P, CCS, CCS-P, RHIT, RHIA, HCPCS, ICD-10, ICD-9, CPT-4

Preferred/Desired

Special Skills

Minimum Required

Preferred/Desired

• Physician education, leadership, mentoring, workflow documentation

Licensure

• One of the following: Certified Coding Specialist (CSS), Certified Coding Specialist Physician (CCSP), Registered Health Information Technician (RHIT), Registered Health Information Administrator (RHIA), Certified Professional Coder (CPC), Certified Outpatient Coder (COC/CPCH), Certified Professional Coder Payer (CPCP).

Minimum Required

• COC/CPCH;CPC-P ;CCS-P;RHIT;RHIA;CPC;CCS

Preferred/Desired