Physician Coder – Hospital Inpatient & Data Quality

St. Luke's University Health Network; Elm (PA); Remote; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

St. Luke's University Health Network seeks a Physician Coder to code and abstract professional fee hospital services for SLPG physicians, ensuring accuracy and compliance with ICD-9/ICD-10, CPT-4, HCPCS II, and CMS guidelines.

The role requires maintaining productivity, staying current with coding guidelines for inpatient, observation, consultant, surgical, critical care, and E&M services, and performing data entry into specialty databases. Equal opportunity employer.

Qualifications

• Maintains a 95% coding accuracy rate as measured through quality reviews.
• Performs data entry of physician information into databases.
• Conducts educational sessions to medical staff on coding and documentation.

Responsibilities

• Codes and abstracts professional fee hospital services performed by SLPG physicians from medical records according to ICD-9/ICD-10, CPT-4, HCPCS II, and CMS guidelines.
• Maintains daily productivity.
• Maintains up-to-date knowledge of coding guidelines for hospital services.

Skills

Attention to detail

Data entry

Education

RHIA

RHIT

CPC

CCS-P

CCS

Tools

3M Encoder

Job description

St. Luke's University Health Network seeks a Physician Coder to code and abstract professional fee hospital services for SLPG physicians, ensuring accuracy and compliance with ICD-9/ICD-10, CPT-4, HCPCS II, and CMS guidelines.

The role requires maintaining productivity, staying current with coding guidelines for inpatient, observation, consultant, surgical, critical care, and E&M services, and performing data entry into specialty databases. Equal opportunity employer.