Senior Coder - Home Health
Senior Coder - Home Health
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Job Description
Thank you for considering a career at Roper St. Francis Healthcare!
Scheduled Weekly Hours:
0.01Work Shift:
Days (United States of America)HOURS: 8:00am - 5:00pm with flexibility
Job Summary: The Coding Specialist I is responsible for reviewing coding and abstracting inpatient and/or outpatient medical records.
Minimum Qualifications:
Education and Experience:
High school diploma or GED with two years coding experience relevant to the position as follows:
- Inpatient positions: experience in ICD coding and assigning DRGs/APCSs;
- Outpatient positions: experience in outpatient coding and assigning ICD and CPT.
Formal coding education preferred.
Licensure/Certification: Must have CPC CCS or CCS-P. May have a CCA with 5 years of relevant experience.
Primary Source Verification (if applicable):
Knowledge/Skills: Requires working knowledge of ICD-10-CM and CPT4 coding and guidelines and principles. Requires knowledge of medical terminology. Knowledge of anatomy and physiology preferred. Computer experience helpful. Requires the ability to work independently and as a team member. Requires ability to maintain confidentiality of sensitive information. Requires the ability to effectively communicate with clientele and other personnel especially physicians
Other: Employees located in Physician Billing and Collections departments (0and 10-6954) are required to work a minimum of one weekend a month along with occasional holiday work. Overtime will vary with workload and employee must be available for overtime according to business needs.
Contacts: Contact coders other hospital personnel in particular finance and business office staff case managers performance improvement staff nurses and physicians and clinical documentation specialists.
Work Demands/Environment: Requires sitting visually examining documents and viewing a computer screen for long periods of time. Requires finger dexterity eye-hand coordination corrected vision and hearing to normal range. Requires walking standing lifting bending pushing pulling stretching. Requires working under stressful conditions at times. Possible exposure to communicable diseases. Required to review understand and abide by our Code of Conduct and the related policies and procedures contained in the CAHS Compliance Manual. Will attend annual compliance education programs as part of mandatory training. Required to report violations of policy law regulations of Our Code of Conduct: The Right Thing to Do to the Compliance Officer. Failure to comply with or failure to detect and report violations will result in discipline up to and including immediate discharge. Required reporting to supervisor of any conviction of violating the law
Roper St. Francis Healthcare is an equal opportunity employer.
Many of our opportunities reward* your hard work with:
- Comprehensive affordable medical dental and vision plans
- Prescription drug coverage
- Flexible spending accounts
- Life insurance w/AD&D
- Employer contributions to retirement savings plan when eligible
- Paid time off
- Educational Assistance
- And much more
*Benefits offerings vary according to employment status.
Department:
Home Health Administration - Roper HospitalIt is our policy to abide by all Federal and State laws as well as the requirements of 41 CFR 60-1.4(a) 60-300.5(a) and 60-741.5(a). Accordingly all applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color national origin religion sex sexual orientation gender identity age genetic information or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability. If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request a reasonable accommodation as part of the employment selection process please contact The Talent Acquisition Team at .
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Employment Type
Part-Time
