Outpatient Auditor

e4health; United States; Remote; USD 70,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) with company match

Medical, dental, vision insurance

Life insurance

Short/long term disability

PTO

Job summary

e4health is seeking an Outpatient Auditor to perform quality assurance reviews of outpatient coding across multiple client settings. You will ensure accurate abstraction of data in EMR systems, following ICD-10-CM, CPT, HCPCS, AMA CPT, and CMS guidelines.

The role emphasizes training, defect trend analysis, and maintaining a 95%+ accuracy rate while meeting productivity targets. This is a remote, full-time role with responsibilities across Emergency Dept., Observation, and clinic coding

Qualifications

• Must possess an AHIMA or AAPC coding credential.
• Minimum 4 years of coding experience required.
• Minimum 2 years of auditing experience preferred.
• Recommend at least 2 years of remote experience.

Responsibilities

• Perform quality assurance reviews for outpatient coding.
• Onboard and train newly hired coding staff.
• Provide educational sessions on error trends and coding practices.
• Report quality results and track accuracy against targets.
• Maintain productivity and accuracy goals.

Skills

Coding credential (AHIMA or AAPC)

Auditing experience

Remote work experience

Quality & accuracy focus

Job description

At e4health, our vision is to Empower Better Health for our clients, our team, and the communities we serve. We live by five core values that guide everything we do:

• Embrace Change, Fun, and Learning: We maintain an unrelenting focus on quality, client success, and team member growth.
• Our PEOPLE Make the Difference: We build trusted relationships and celebrate wins every day.
• WE GROW: We believe in win/win outcomes—when our customers win, we win.
• GSD (Get Stuff Done): We say no to politics, drama, and egos, and yes to informed, agile decisions.
• Respectfully Listen, Challenge, & Support Each Other: We listen intently, challenge respectfully, and support fully.

Serving more than 400 hospitals and health systems nationwide for nearly two decades, e4health provides solutions to tackle the toughest problems in healthcare with unmatched technology, mid-revenue cycle, and operational expertise. Our solutions streamline clinical, financial, and health information workflows, optimize coding, quality, and clinical documentation integrity processes, and address health IT operational challenges to deliver material results for healthcare organizations across the country. Learn more about us at www.e4.health.

POSITION TITLE:

ROLE TYPE:

Full Time

EMPLOYMENT TYPE:

Non-Exempt

JOB SUMMARY:

The Outpatient Auditor is responsible for completing quality assurance reviews on internal and/or external outpatient coding specialists or external providers. The facility-based chart types may include one or more of the following: Emergency Department, Observation, Same Day Surgery, Ancillary, Interventional Radiology, or Facility-Based Clinic. This may also include onboarding audits and training of newly hired e4health coding specialists. This role is responsible for validating the coding specialist is accurately for accurately abstracting data into appropriate client electronic medical record systems, following the Official ICD-10-CM, CPT, and HCPCS Guidelines for Coding, AMA CPT Guidelines, and CMS directives. The Outpatient Auditor also plays a key role in reporting quality results, tracking and trending of educational opportunities of the coding specialist, responding to client subject matter needs, and providing educational support and training to coders and/or providers. The Outpatient Auditor is expected to maintain consistent coding auditing accuracy rate of 95% or better while also meeting agreed upon productivity standards.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Complete all regularly scheduled quality assurance reviews for clients
• Complete onboarding quality assurance reviews for newly hired consultants
• May provide training for newly hired coding consultants
• Communicate quality issues to management as appropriate
• Assist with identification of, drafting, implementation, and monitoring of quality improvement action plans for coding consultants
• Maintain reports and accuracy rates for coding consultants and clients as appropriate.
• Respond to client QA needs at the direction of management
• Provide coding consultants educational sessions on error trends as requested by management
• Notifying management when there is a compliance concern or incident
• Demonstrating knowledge of HIPAA Privacy and Security Regulations as evidenced by appropriate handling of patient information
• Promoting confidentiality and using discretion when handling patient information.
• Attend educational conference calls
• Provide coding support to the business as needed
• Perform other duties as needed with the project
• Maintains required productivity and quality requirements

BENEFITS:

We offer an excellent salary, full benefits package including 401(k) with company match, medical, dental, vision, life, short/long term disability insurance, and PTO policy.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS OF THE ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

• This role requires prolonged periods of desk working on a computer
• Talking, hearing, and near vision are required to perform computer-based tasks and virtual communication
• Sensory perception (visual, auditory, and tactile) is essential for computer and phone use

WORKING CONDITIONS WHILE PERFORMING ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

This is a remote role; work is performed in a home office environment.

e4health is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, marital status, veteran status, age, disability, pregnancy, genetic information, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other legally protected category.

Applicants for U.S. based positions with e4health must be legally authorized to work in the United States. Verification of employment eligibility will be required at the time of hire. Visa sponsorship is not available for this position

Requirements

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Candidate must possess an approved AHIMA or AAPC coding credential
• Minimum 4 years’ coding experience required; specialty experience may be preferred as per specific client needs
• Minimum 2 years of auditing experience preferred
• Recommend at least 2 years of remote experience

KEY SUCCESS ATTRIBUTES:

• Integrity, passion, and ethics are required
• Has strong analytic and problem-solving abilities and techniques
• Exhibit consistent initiative with strong drive for results and success
• Demonstrate commitment to a team environment?
• Well-developed written, verbal, and presentation communication skills including deep listening and attention to detail
• Ability to self-motivate and self-direct
• Possess strong time management and organizational skills
• Commitment and adherence to company Core Values

CORE COMPETENCIES:

• High level of integrity & ethical judgement