Coding and Billing Specialist

Nemours Children's Health; Orlando (FL); On-site; USD 52,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Nemours Children's Health is seeking a Coding and Billing Specialist in Orlando, FL to code diagnoses, procedures, and social determinant codes per AHA and CPT guidelines, impacting hospital billing and revenues.

The role requires strong knowledge of ICD-10-CM, CPT-4, modifiers, and documentation improvement to support level of service and risk adjustment. Certification maintenance and payer-specific trends will be part of daily responsibilities.

Qualifications

• Associate’s degree required.
• Medical Terminology, Anatomy and Physiology knowledge required.
• CPC, CCS, RHIT, RHIA, or COC certification; CRC preferred.

Responsibilities

• Comprehend medical record documentation to accurately assign codes for concurrent and discharged accounts across multiple specialties.
• Maintain production and quality standards monthly.
• Apply code sequencing for grouper-related payers with attention to charge capture and accuracy.

Skills

Medical terminology

Education

Associate’s degree

Medical Terminology, Anatomy & Physiology

Job description

Job Description

Nemours is seeking a Coding and Billing Specialist in Orlando, FL. The role assesses documentation for each service rendered in the hospital’s place of service, accurately coding principal diagnoses, secondary conditions, procedures, and social determinant codes using American Hospital Association guidelines, Current Procedural Terminology guidelines, payer specific rules for commercial and/or Medicaid insurance, and drug administration for specified service lines impacting Florida’s enhanced ambulatory grouping. This includes excellent working knowledge of revenue charge capture and the impact to hospital billing (soft vs hard coded charges), revenue codes, relevant grouper function and financial impact; assessment and entry of surgical charges (supplies, implants), and pharmacy charges (contrast, patient supplied, etc.).

Essential Functions

• Ability to comprehend medical record documentation to accurately assign codes for both concurrent and discharged accounts across multiple specialties.
• Meets minimum requirements for production and quality monthly.
• Requires a working knowledge of code sequencing for grouper-related payers with attention to detail to avoid rework and waste with charge capture assessment component.
• Requires understanding and application of M.E.A.T. criteria (i.e., monitoring, evaluation, assessment, treatment) using ICD 10 CM transaction data set to capture diagnoses.
• Analyzes high-risk encounters for accurate and/or missing charges gaps prior to encounter completion (i.e., missing charges from anesthesia, surgery) when manual charge capture occurs.
• Understand complexity of billing requirements and incorporates payer specific trends into day-to-day reviews to reduce “take backs” associated with unclear, or un-substantiated care rendered. (i.e., varying modifier assignment for EAPG vs. Non-EAPG payer specificity)
• Requires excellent coding knowledge of ICD 10 CM, CPT 4, and modifier application, with expectations to maintain certification (i.e., CCS, CPC, RHIT, or RHIA) and apply ICD 10 CM Coding Guidelines specific to both inpatient and outpatient encounters.
• Facilitate modifications to clinical documentation through query interaction to ensure that the information captured supports the level of service rendered, with attention towards chronic conditions, hierarchical condition categories (HCC), and risk adjustment factors (RAF).
• Demonstrates an excellent working knowledge of hospital information systems to retrieve data specific information (i.e., order diagnosis, patient type) within a complicated filing schema including non-hospital data (i.e., Media Tab, Office Visits etc).

Requirements

• Associate’s degree required
• Medical Terminology, Anatomy and Physiology
• One of the following: CPC, CCS, RHIT, RHIA, COC; Preferred CRC
• 3–5 years experience