(Healthcare) Inpatient Coding Specialist (Remote)

Job Summary

As a Coding Integrity Specialist III WORK FROM HOME, you will review and evaluate hospital inpatient medical record documentation to assign, sequence, edit and/or validate the appropriate ICD-10-CM and ICD-10- PCS codes. A CIS III performs coding and/or code/DRG validation across multiple entities by applying all appropriate coding guidelines and criteria for code selections.

Requirements

Job Qualifications

• Assign, sequence, validate, and/or edit codes/DRGs and abstracted data (e.g., physician, discharge disposition, query tracking) for inpatient records for multiple facilities using ICD-10-CM and ICD-10-PCS
  
• Maintain or exceed established accuracy standards
  
• Maintain or exceed established productivity standards
  
• Utilize the complete patient medical record documentation in code/DRG assignment, validation, and/or editing of codes/DRGs
  • Undergraduate (Associates or Bachelors) degree in HIM/HIT preferred
    
  • Minimum 1 year of acute care hospital inpatient coding required with 3 years preferred.
    
  • Coding Technical Skills - ICD-10-CM, ICD-10-PCS, MS-DRGs, APR DRGs, and POA Assignment.
    
  • Will be require to audit as well
    
  • RHIT, RHIA or CCS required
    

Benefits