Inpatient Coding Auditor

HCA Healthcare; Houston (TX); Remote; USD 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking healthcare organization as an Inpatient Coding Auditor, where your expertise in medical coding will ensure high-quality patient care. In this role, you'll lead quality assessments, maintain coding accuracy, and support compliance with national guidelines. This innovative firm values its employees and offers a comprehensive benefits package, including medical coverage, retirement plans, and education assistance. If you're passionate about patient care and coding integrity, this is the perfect opportunity for you to thrive and grow your career in a supportive environment.

Benefits

Comprehensive medical coverage

401(k) Plan with matching

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Education assistance

Time Away From Work Program

Free counseling services

Flexible spending accounts

Referral services for family support

Qualifications

• 5+ years of acute care inpatient and outpatient coding experience required.
• Minimum 3 years coding auditing/monitoring experience strongly preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead quality reviews for inpatient and outpatient coding across multiple HSCs.
• Ensure adherence to coding guidelines and policies.

Skills

Medical Coding

Quality Assessment

Data Integrity

Compliance with Coding Guidelines

Education

Undergraduate degree in HIM/HIT

Associates or Bachelors

Job description

Description

Introduction

Experience the HCA Healthcare difference where colleagues are trusted, valued members of our healthcare team. Grow your career with an organization committed to delivering respectful, compassionate care, and where the unique and intrinsic worth of each individual is recognized. Submit your application for the opportunity below: as Work from Home Inpatient Coding Auditor with Parallon.

Benefits

Parallon offers a total rewards package that supports the health, life, career and retirement of our colleagues. The available plans and programs include:

• Comprehensive medical coverage that covers many common services at no cost or for a low copay. Plans include prescription drug and behavioral health coverage as well as free telemedicine services and free AirMed medical transportation.
• Additional options for dental and vision benefits, life and disability coverage, flexible spending accounts, supplemental health protection plans (accident, critical illness, hospital indemnity), auto and home insurance, identity theft protection, legal counseling, long-term care coverage, moving assistance, pet insurance and more.
• Free counseling services and resources for emotional, physical and financial wellbeing.
• 401(k) Plan with a 100% match on 3% to 9% of pay (based on years of service).
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan with 10% off HCA Healthcare stock.
• Family support through fertility and family building benefits with Progyny and adoption assistance.
• Referral services for child, elder and pet care, home and auto repair, event planning and more.
• Consumer discounts through Abenity and Consumer Discounts.
• Retirement readiness, rollover assistance services and preferred banking partnerships.
• Education assistance (tuition, student loan, certification support, dependent scholarships).
• Colleague recognition program.
• Time Away From Work Program (paid time off, paid family leave, long- and short-term disability coverage and leaves of absence).
• Employee Health Assistance Fund that offers free employee-only coverage to full-time and part-time colleagues based on income.

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Note: Eligibility for benefits may vary by location.

We are seeking an Inpatient Coding Auditor for our team to ensure that we continue to provide all patients with high quality, efficient care. Did you get into our industry for these reasons? We are an amazing team that works hard to support each other and are seeking a phenomenal addition like you who feels patient care is as meaningful as we do. We want you to apply!

Job Summary and Qualifications

As an Inpatient Coding Auditor, you will be responsible for performing internal quality assessment reviews on Health Information Management Service Center (HSC) coders to ensure compliance with national coding guidelines, the HSC coding policies and the Company coding policies for complete, accurate and consistent coding which result in appropriate reimbursement and data integrity. You will review outcomes communicated to the HSC team to improve the accuracy, integrity and quality of patient data, to ensure minimal variation in coding practices and to improve the quality of physician documentation within the body of the medical record to support code assignments.

What you will do in this role:

• Leads, coordinates and performs all functions of quality reviews (routine, pre-bill, policy driven and incentive plan driven) for inpatient and/or outpatient coding across multiple HSCs.
• Assists in ensuring HSC coding staff adherence with coding guidelines and policy.
• Demonstrates and applies expert level knowledge of medical coding practices and concepts.
• Participates on special reviews or projects.
• Maintains or exceeds 95% productivity standards.
• Maintains or exceeds 95% accuracy.
• Meets all educational requirements as stated in current Company policy.
• Reviews all official data quality standards, coding guidelines, Company policies and procedures, and clinical/medical resources to assure coding knowledge and skills remain current.

What qualifications you will need:

• Undergraduate degree in HIM/HIT preferred (Associates or Bachelors).
• Minimum of 5 years acute care inpatient and outpatient coding experience required.
• Minimum of 3 years coding auditing/monitoring experience strongly preferred.
• RHIA, RHIT and/or CCS preferred.

If you find this opportunity compelling, we encourage you to apply for our Inpatient Coding Auditor opening. We promptly review all applications. Highly qualified candidates will be directly contacted by a member of our team. We are interviewing apply today!

We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.