Remote Inpatient Coding & Audit Specialist

Datavant; Santa Fe (NM); Remote; USD 48,000 - 62,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Dental benefits

Vision benefits

401k with match

Paid time off

Paid holidays

Floating holidays

Free CEUs

Education stipend

Equipment provided

Mentorship

Job summary

Datavant is a healthcare data collaboration platform enabling providers, payers, researchers, and life sciences companies to securely share data to power better health outcomes.

The Inpatient Auditing Specialist role is fully remote with a flexible schedule, focusing on coding audits, education, and regulatory adherence. If you bring 5+ years inpatient coding and experience with Epic or Cerner, you’ll fit well with our collaborative team.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of facility inpatient coding experience and/or auditing.
• CCS (preferred), RHIA or RHIT preferred
• Maintain 95% DRG accuracy rate
• Experience with Epic, Cerner, and other EMRs.

Responsibilities

• Performs inpatient facility coding audits according to scope of work, for the purpose of Onboarding, Focused, Service Level Agreements or Other Types of reviews, using appropriate assignment of codes and other coding-related elements using MS DRG or APR DRGs.
• Provides rich and concise rationale explaining the reasoning behind any identified changes, including specific references, location of documentation, etc.
• Keeps abreast of regulatory changes.
• Organizes and prioritizes multiple cases concurrently to ensure optimal workflow and turnaround time
• Provides coder education via the auditing process
• Function in a professional, efficient, and positive manner
• Adhere to the American Health Information Management Association’s code of ethics.
• Must be customer-service focused and exhibit professionalism, flexibility, dependability, desire to learn, commitment to excellence and commitment to profession.
• High complexity of work function and decision making
• Strong organizational, teamwork, and leadership skills

Skills

Query writing

Time management

Multitasking

Problem-solving

Education

CCS (preferred)

RHIA or RHIT (preferred)

Tools

Epic

Cerner

Job description

Datavant is a healthcare data collaboration platform enabling providers, payers, researchers, and life sciences companies to securely share data to power better health outcomes.

The Inpatient Auditing Specialist role is fully remote with a flexible schedule, focusing on coding audits, education, and regulatory adherence. If you bring 5+ years inpatient coding and experience with Epic or Cerner, you’ll fit well with our collaborative team.