Inpatient Hospital Coder

The Nemours Foundation; Orlando (FL); On-site; USD 60,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

The Nemours Foundation seeks an Inpatient Hospital Coder in Orlando, FL to assess documentation and assign codes for hospital and professional services. The coder will use AHA guidelines, CPT and ICD-10-CM rules, and payer-specific requirements to ensure accurate coding and charge capture.

Ideal candidates have 3–5 years of inpatient coding experience, an Associate degree, and certifications such as CCS/RHIT/RHIA; CRC is a plus.

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Assess documentation to assign codes for hospital and professional sessions.
• Code principal diagnoses, secondary conditions, procedures, and related codes.
• Apply CPT and ICD-10-CM guidelines and payer rules.
• Ensure proper charge capture and minimize rework.

Skills

Medical coding

CPT coding

ICD-10-CM

Charge capture

HCC

RAF

M.E.A.T criteria

Payer guidelines

Education

Associate degree

CCS

RHIT

RHIA

CRC

Tools

Hospital information system

Job description

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

1. Ability to comprehend medical record documentation to accurately assign codes for each active session, in multiple specialties.

2. Meets minimum requires for production and quality monthly for all procedure/surgeries assigned a CPT code (hospital and professional)

3. Requires a working knowledge of code sequencing for payer specific rules which requires attention to detail to avoid rework and waste.

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 charge capture and charge gaps prior to encounter completion (i.e. missing charges from anesthesia, surgery) where 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.

7. 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).

8. Ability to code for hospital and professional sessions routinely as part of the daily work.

9. 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