Required Skills & Experience
- 5 years minimum of Edit & Denials coding
- Professional and facility coding.
- Ability to operate across multiple clients.
- Experience making changes in EHR systems
- Experience reviewing and correcting coding edits.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills.
Job Description
We are seeking an Edit & Denials Coder to review medical records to determine appropriate billing codes and necessary documentation. This role is responsible for performing advanced coding and appeal activities; investigating payer issues, completing charge corrections, and for timely filing of appeals to insurance companies.
Key Responsibilities
- Reviews the documentation in the record to identify all pertinent facts for appealing the claims denied by third-party payers or holds in host systems or billing clearinghouse. Creates appropriate letters to substantiate the validity of claims.
- Meets with facility liaison to review documentation, resolve coding, and tagging files for follow-up. Investigates and problem-solves reimbursement issues in collaboration with other coding staff and faculty. Works directly with facility liaison or other clinical staff as needed to provide documentation feedback and to develop appeals.
- Researches payer policies and processes.
- Reviews clinical documentation in the medical record to identify all pertinent facts necessary to select the comprehensive diagnoses and procedures that fully describe the patient's conditions and treatment.
- Works assigned work queues and tasks and reviews remittance advice for rejections and accuracy of payment amounts as needed. Identifies invoices or claims that have been rejected per billing edits/criteria.