Inpatient Hospital Coder

Nemours in; Orlando (FL); On-site; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Nemours Children's Health is seeking an Inpatient Hospital Coder in Orlando, FL to assess documentation and assign codes for diagnoses and procedures across hospital and professional lines of business.

The role requires understanding MEAT criteria, RAF/HCC factors, and payer-specific rules to ensure accurate charge capture and minimize rework. 3-5 years of coding experience is expected, with CCS/RHIT/RHIA credentials preferred.

Qualifications

• Associate's degree preferred.
• Medical Terminology, Anatomy and Physiology.
• One of CCS/RHIT/RHIA; CRC preferred.
• 3-5 years experience.

Responsibilities

• Code principal diagnoses, procedures for inpatient and professional sessions.
• Meet monthly production and quality targets for all CPT codes.
• Apply payer-specific rules and CPT/ICD-10-CM guidelines.
• Use MEAT criteria and RAF/HCC considerations for coding.
• Analyze high-risk encounters to ensure accurate charge capture.
• Code for hospital and professional sessions across lines with cross-disciplinary data retrieval.
• Specialize in multiple surgical lines (Cardiac, ENT, General Surgery, Neurosurgery, Plastics, Urology).

Skills

ICD-10-CM coding

CPT coding

Medical terminology

Anatomy & physiology

Education

CCS

RHIT

RHIA

CRC

Associate's degree preferred

Job description

Inpatient Hospital Coder (Finance)

Nemours is seeking an Inpatient Hospital Coder in Orlando, FL

Responsible for assessing documentation content for service rendered in the hospital setting and/or professional setting in order to accurately code principal diagnoses, secondary conditions, procedures, 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. Exhibits unique talent and comprehension in order to assign codes for multiple encounter/session (i.e. single path coding ) from Hospital to Professional lines of business process services which exist on the same date of service, in the same place of service (POS) include service lines which have the same documentation but different code assignments (i.e. radiology) with focus on specific ordering practices.

Essential Functions

• Ability to comprehend medical record documentation to accurately assign codes for each active session, in multiple specialties.
• Meets minimum requires for production and quality monthly for all procedure/surgeries assigned a CPT code (hospital and professional)
• Requires a working knowledge of code sequencing for payer specific rules which requires attention to detail to avoid rework and waste.
• 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 charge capture and charge gaps prior to encounter completion (i.e. missing charges from anesthesia, surgery) where 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 un-clear, or un-substantiated care rendered.
• Facilitates modifications to clinical documentation through concurrent 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).
• Ability to code for hospital and professional sessions routinely as part of the daily work.
• Exhibits proficiency in all surgical coding three or more surgery based product lines: Cardiac, ENT, General Surgery/GI, Neurosurgery, Plastics, and Urology, with excellent working knowledge of hospital information system 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 preferred

Medical Terminology, Anatomy and Physiology

One of the following: CCS, RHIT, RHIA; Preferred CRC

3-5 years experience

About Us

Nemours Children's Health is an internationally recognized pediatric health system serving more than 1.7 million patient encounters each year. We deliver care across six states through two freestanding children's hospitals - Nemours Children's Hospital, Delaware and Nemours Children's Hospital, Florida - along with a network of more than 80 primary, urgent, and specialty care practices and more than 40 hospital partnerships.

Backed by the Nemours Foundation and Alfred I. duPont Trust, our $1.7B nonprofit system is dedicated to improving children's health through clinical care, research, education, advocacy, and prevention. Our Whole Child Health approach focuses equally on prevention and treatment, partnering with communities to help every child thrive.

Inclusion and belonging guide our strategy and growth. We are committed to culturally relevant care, reducing health disparities, and fostering an environment where every associate, patient, and family feels supported and valued.

Learn more at Nemours.org .