Medical Coding Specialist
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Job Location:
Houston, MS - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
25-10-2025
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
The Medical Coding Specialist is responsible for ensuring diagnostic and procedure codes are assigned accurately to outpatient GI procedures based upon documentation within the electronic medical record while maintaining compliance with established rules and regulatory guidelines.
- Interacts and communicates effectively with members of the coding team and the appropriate stakeholders.
- Participates and provides good feedback during coding section meetings and coding education in-services as well as takes initiative to assist others and shares knowledge with the appropriate stakeholders.
SERVICE ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
- Responds promptly to internal and external customer requests. Responds promptly and appropriately to requests to code or review coded accounts for accuracy.
- Initiates queries with physicians to obtain or clarify diagnoses and/or procedures as appropriate utilizing the established physician query process.
QUALITY/SAFETY ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
- Responsible for assigning diagnostic and procedural codes to encounters of high complexity.
- Maintains and achieves departmental standards of coding quality by assigning accurate ICD-10-CM/ICD-10-PCS and CPT codes and APC assignment utilizing an electronic encoder application in accordance with hospital policy and regulatory body guidelines.
- Maintains and achieves departmental standards of abstracting quality by reviewing the discharge disposition entered by nursing and corrects if necessary in order to achieve the highest quality of entered data.
- Reviews medical record documentation and abstracts data into the encoder and Electronic Health Record (EHR) to determine principal or final diagnosis co-morbid conditions and complications secondary conditions and procedures. Utilizes all tools/resources for accuracy.
- Complies with the Standards of Ethical Coding and adheres to official guidelines.
FINANCE ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
- Utilizes time effectively. Consistently codes and abstracts at or above departmental standards of productivity while ensuring accuracy of coding.
- Supports meeting organizational goal for Accounts Receivables (AR) associated with uncoded accounts.
- Maintains coding timeframes within established departmental standards by ensuring all work items assigned to the coding queues are processed in a timely manner.
GROWTH/INNOVATION ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
- Critically evaluates own performance accepts constructive criticism and looks for ways to improve.
- Displays initiative to improve relative to job function. Contributes ideas to help improve quality of coding data and abstracting data.
- Demonstrates the skills and competencies necessary to safely perform the assigned job determined through on-going skills competency assessments and performance evaluations
- Sufficient proficiency in speaking reading and writing the English language necessary to perform the essential functions of this job especially with regard to activities impacting patient or employee safety or security
- Ability to effectively communicate with patients physicians family members and co-workers in a manner consistent with a customer service focus and application of positive language principles
- Knowledge of coding classification systems DRG and APC systems official coding guidelines and coding compliance
- Knowledge of an electronic medical record and imaging systems
- Working knowledge of medical terminology anatomy and physiology
- Proficiency with electronic encoder application
- Extensive PC knowledge - must be able to work effectively in common office software coding software and abstracting systems
Benefits:
- Comprehensive health dental and vision insurance
- Health Savings Account with an employer contribution
- Life Insurance
- PTO
- 401(k) retirement plan with a company match
- And more!
Equal Employment Opportunity & Work Force Diversity
Our organizationis an equal opportunity employer and will not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment based on race color creed sex religion marital status age national origin or ancestry physical or mental disability medical condition parental status sexual orientation veteran status genetic testing results or any other consideration made unlawful by federal state or local laws. This practice relates to all personnel matters such as compensation benefits training promotions transfers layoffs our organizationiscommitted to going beyond the legal requirements of equal employment opportunity to take positive actions which ensure diversity in the workplace and result in a multi-cultural organization.
This job description is not intended to be all-inclusive; the employee will also perform other reasonably related business/job duties as assigned.
Required Experience:
IC
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About Company
Surgery Partners, a leading operator of surgical facilities and ancillary services, provides healthcare experiences between providers and patients.
