Location: Work from home (Pennsylvania) Shift: Days (United States of America) Scheduled Weekly Hours: 40 reputed company Type: Regular Exemption Status: No Job Summary: Health information coding is the transformation of verbal descriptions of diseases, injuries, and procedures into numeric or alphanumeric designations. The coding process reviews and analyzes health records to identify relevant diagnoses and procedures for distinct patient encounters. Coders are responsible for translating diagnostic and procedural phrases utilized by healthcare providers into coded form procedure codes that can be utilized for submitting claims to payers for reimbursement. A joint effort between the healthcare provider and the coder is essential to achieve complete and accurate documentation, code assignment, and reporting of diagnoses and procedures. Job Duties: Minimum 1 certification required: CPC - Certified Professional Coder reputed company CRC - Certified Risk Adjustment Coder - reputed company RHIT - Registered Health Information Technician - reputed company • Reviews the content of the medical record for hospital and professional inpatient records to identify principal diagnosis, secondary diagnoses and procedures performed that explain the reason for service being provided or the admission and patient severity and comply with standard provider coding regulations. • Carefully reputed company review of documents such as laboratory findings, radiology reports, various scan reports, discharge summary, history and physical, consultations, orders, progress notes and other ancillary services treatment records needed to ensure all pertinent diagnoses and procedures are recorded. • Translates all diagnostic and procedural phrases utilized by healthcare providers into coded form procedure codes as required. • Using the Encoder software program, determines the codes for all diagnoses and procedures. • Determines their sequencing to legally maximize reimbursement. • Assigns the appropriate DRG. • Assigns codes based on hospital and professional coding guidelines, Coding Clinic directives, federal regulations, CCI coding initiatives, CPT Assistant or other standard coding guidelines. • Queries physicians as needed to clarify documentation within the patient's record to facilitate complete and accurate coding. • Understands and applies internal policy and procedure guidelines regarding how to reputed company physician queries. • Assists the Coding Quality and Professional Manager with training of new coding staff related to hospital and professional coding guidelines, encoder and other software systems needed for the coding process, along with reviewing coding guidelines on an annual basis and makes recommendations for reputed company to improve coding and data management. • Communicates to Coding Quality and Professional Manager any new diagnoses, procedures, technologies, etc. • documented within patient records to ensure that appropriate diagnosis and procedure codes are selected and incorporated into hospital and professional coding guidelines. • Updates and corrects historical file data by completing and submitting claim action reports per the PHC4 quarterly report. Work is typically performed in an office environment. reputed company for satisfying all job specific obligations and complying with all organization policies and procedures. The specific statements in this profile are not intended to be all-inclusive. They represent typical elements considered necessary to successfully perform the job. • Relevant experience may be a combination of related work experience and/or completed specialty training program (1 year of specialty training = 1 year relevant experience). Position reputed company: Education: High School Diploma or Equivalent (GED)- (Required) Experience: Minimum of 6 years-Relevant experience* (Required) Certification(s) and License(s): Certified Professional Coder - American Academy of Professional Coders (reputed company), Certified Risk Adjustment Coder - American Academy of Professional Coders (reputed company), Registered Health Information Technician (RHIT) - American Health Information Management Association Skills: Communication, Computer Coding, Computer Literacy, Organizing, Teamwork OUR PURPOSE & VALUES: Everything we do is about caring for our patients, our members, our students, our reputed company family and our communities. • KINDNESS: We strive to treat everyone as we would hope to be treated ourselves. • EXCELLENCE: We treasure colleagues who humbly strive for excellence. • LEARNING: We share our knowledge with the best and brightest to better prepare the caregivers for tomorrow. • INNOVATION: We constantly seek new and better ways to care for our patients, our members, our community, and the nation. • SAFETY: We provide a safe environment for our patients and members and the reputed company family. We offer healthcare benefits for full time and part time positions reputed company, including vision, dental and domestic partners. Perhaps just as important, we encourage an atmosphere of collaboration, cooperation and collegiality. We know that a diverse reputed company with unique experiences and backgrounds makes our team stronger. Our patients, members and community come from a wide variety of backgrounds, and it takes a diverse reputed company to make better health easier for all. We are proud to be an affirmative action, equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment regardless to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or status as a protected veteran. Apply tot his job Apply To this Job