HIM Associate

R1 RCM, Inc.; Elk Grove Village (IL); On-site; USD 24,000 - 35,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive benefits package

Job summary

R1 RCM, Inc. seeks an HIM Associate II to deliver excellent service to patients, providers, and payors while safeguarding confidential health information. You will prepare, scan, and organize medical records, ensuring complete and accurate documentation across two sites in Illinois.

This role emphasizes meticulous data handling and adherence to HI practices. The position is onsite at Ascension IL Alexian Brothers Elk Grove Village, with a focus on accuracy, timely processing, and compliance.

Qualifications

• High degree of professionalism required.
• Discretion in handling highly confidential protected health information.
• Strong organizational skills with ability to prioritize multiple HIM functions.
• High attention to detail and data skills in Word/Excel/Sheets and reporting.

Responsibilities

• Chart check-in, reconciliation, and follow-up of missing documentation; prepping, scanning, indexing, and QA validation of medical records.
• Ensure resolution of health record deficiencies complies with regulatory requirements and reimbursement activities.
• Assist with physician relinquishment, faxing, reporting, and auditing tasks.
• Support DNFB processes by obtaining necessary documentation for coding and billing.
• Perform timely daily prepping and scanning of patient records and maintain high-quality standards.
• Conduct quality audits to verify accuracy of legal medical records across multiple systems.

Skills

Professionalism

Confidentiality

Organizational skills

Data skills (Word/Excel/Sheets)

Job description

R1 is the leading provider of technology-driven solutions that transform the patient experience and financial performance of hospitals, health systems and medical groups. We are the one company that combines the deep expertise of a global workforce of revenue cycle professionals with the industry’s most advanced technology platform, encompassing sophisticated analytics, AI, intelligent automation, and workflow orchestration.

As our HIM Associate II, you will deliver exceptional customer service to patients, healthcare professionals, and payors while upholding the utmost confidentiality for all patients. Your daily tasks will involve preparing, scanning, and organizing medical record information to ensure the completion of health information and data. Your role plays a crucial part in maintaining accurate and confidential health records. The successful candidate must be flexible with working schedule covering two HIM sites and have high attention to detail and strong data entry skills.

This is an onsite position at Ascension IL Alexian Brothers Elk Grove Village.

To thrive in this position, you will need to be detail-oriented, have strong detail skills, organized, and passionate about handling sensitive information. You will use your understanding of Health Informatics (HI) to run an error analysis and recommend solutions. Exercises independent judgment related to the retrieval of health information.

Here’s what you will experience working as an HIM Associate:

• Chart check-in, reconciliation, and follow-up of missing documentation. Prepping, scanning, indexing, and quality control validation of all medical records.
• Ensuring that the resolution of health record deficiencies is in accordance with
• regulatory compliance, legal standards, and reimbursement activities.
• Assist with Physician relinquishment as needed, faxing, reporting, auditing.
• Assist with DNFB functions in obtaining documentation needed for coding/billing.
• Performs timely daily prepping and scanning of the patient medical record, maintaining high quality standards. Able to meet and/or exceeds productivity and quality standards.
• Performs quality audits verifying the accuracy of the legal medical record, navigating between multiple medical systems to verify the completeness of the medical records.
• Performs a variety of general office duties, filing, printing, faxing, answer incoming phone calls and assisting customers.

Required Skills:

• High degree of professionalism
• Discretion in handling highly confidential protected health information
• Strong organizational skills with the ability to prioritize multiple HIM job functions
• High attention to details and data skills in Microsoft Word, Excel or Google Sheets, and assisting on running report.

For this US-based position, the base pay range is $17.60 - $25.25 per hour . Individual pay is determined by role, level, location, job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

The healthcare system is always evolving - and it's up to us to use our shared expertise to find new solutions that can keep up. On our growing team you'll find the opportunity to constantly learn, collaborate across groups and explore new paths for your career.

Our associates are given the chance to contribute, think boldly and create meaningful work that makes a difference in the communities we serve around the world. We go beyond expectations in everything we do. Not only does that drive customer success and improve patient care, but that same enthusiasm is applied to giving back to the community and taking care of our team - including offering a competitive benefits package.

R1 RCM Inc. ("the Company") is dedicated to the fundamentals of equal employment opportunity. The Company’s employment practices , including those regarding recruitment, hiring, assignment, promotion, compensation, benefits, training, discipline, and termination shall not be based on any person’s age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, medical condition, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. Furthermore, the Company is dedicated to providing a workplace free from harassment based on any of the foregoing protected categories.

If you have a disability and require a reasonable accommodation to complete any part of the job application process, please contact us at 312-496-7709 for assistance.

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