Coding and Billing Specialist

The Nemours Foundation; Orlando (FL); On-site; USD 52,000 - 76,000; Full time

Job summary

The Nemours Foundation in Orlando, FL seeks a Coding and Billing Specialist to assess medical records and assign ICD-10-CM and CPT codes with appropriate modifiers for hospital and ambulatory services. The ideal candidate has an Associate’s degree, 3–5 years coding experience, and certification such as CPC/CCS/RHIT/RHIA/COC; familiarity with payer rules and revenue capture is essential.

This position emphasizes accuracy, ongoing documentation edits, and collaboration with clinical staff to

Qualifications

• Associate's degree required.
• Medical Terminology, Anatomy and Physiology.
• CPC, CCS, RHIT, RHIA, or COC; CRC preferred.
• 3-5 years experience in coding and billing.

Responsibilities

• Assess documentation to assign codes for services rendered using ICD-10-CM and CPT guidelines.
• Apply appropriate modifiers and ensure alignment with payer rules.
• Analyze and rectify coding gaps to optimize revenue capture.
• Collaborate with clinical staff to ensure accurate documentation.
• Maintain knowledge of state and payer-specific coding guidelines.

Skills

ICD-10-CM coding

CPT coding

Billing accuracy

Attention to detail

Education

Associate's degree

Tools

CPT/ICD coding software

Job description

Nemours is seeking a Coding and Billing Specialist in Orlando, FL

Assesses documentation for each service rendered in the hospital’s place of service, in order to accurately code principal diagnoses (i.e. preponderance of care sequence), 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 (i.e. soft vs. hard coded charges), working knowledge of revenue codes, relevant grouper function and financial impact; assessment and entry of surgical charges (i.e. supplies, implants), and pharmacy charges (i.e. contrast, patient supplied, etc).

Essential Functions

1. Ability to comprehend medical record documentation to accurately assign codes for both concurrent and discharged accounts across multiple specialties.
2. Meets minimum requirements for production and quality monthly.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. Understand complexity of billing requirements and incorporates payer specific trends into day-to-day reviews to reduce “take backs” associated with un-clear, or un-substantiated care rendered (i.e., varying modifier assignment for EAPG vs. Non-EAPG payer specificity).
7. 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.
8. 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).
9. 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