Senior Inpatient Coder II – ICD-10/PCS Expert & Mentor

Mosaic Life Care; Montgomery (AL); Remote; USD 39,000 - 52,000; Full time

Job summary

Mosaic Life Care is seeking an Inpatient Coder II to assign ICD-10-CM and ICD-10-PCS codes for acute care inpatient, rehab, swing bed and LTACH services. The role involves query-driven documentation improvement, collaboration with CDI and revenue teams, and education of coders to meet quality and productivity goals.

Requirements include a coding education with knowledge of medical terminology, pharmacology and anatomy.

Qualifications

• Must have coding education with knowledge of medical terminology, pharmacology and anatomy, query guidelines - Required
• Associate's Degree - Health Information Management / Medical Records - Required OR
• Bachelor's Degree - Health Information Management / Medical Records - Preferred
• 3 Years - experience in HIM inpatient acute care coding - Required

Responsibilities

• Codes complex diseases, procedures and diagnoses using ICD-10-CM/PCS for inpatient services
• Queries providers following Official Query Guidelines to improve documentation and demonstrate severity of illness
• Mentors and trains coders
• Attains coding quality and productivity goals
• Collaborates with CDI, revenue integrity, patient financial services and quality improvement teams
• Ensures data accuracy for regulatory reporting by resolving edits

Skills

Coding knowledge

Pathophysiology knowledge

Query guidelines knowledge

EMR proficiency

Excel proficiency

Education

Diploma/Degree in Health Information Management

Bachelor's degree preferred

Tools

Encoder

EMR system

Excel

PowerPoint

Job description

Mosaic Life Care is seeking an Inpatient Coder II to assign ICD-10-CM and ICD-10-PCS codes for acute care inpatient, rehab, swing bed and LTACH services. The role involves query-driven documentation improvement, collaboration with CDI and revenue teams, and education of coders to meet quality and productivity goals.

Requirements include a coding education with knowledge of medical terminology, pharmacology and anatomy.