Freelance Medical & Billing Coder

Calling all bill review professionals, CPC coders, AAPC, and DRG coders! Dane Street is looking for highly motivated Coders, bill reviewers, and payment integrity reviewers candidates to join our team. Dane Street offers an exciting work environment, competitive compensation, and strong growth potential.

Job Summary:

A new program offering on the group health side of our business enables you to apply your clinical knowledge to review reports accompanying medical records to ensure that medical billing information and coding are correct. You will communicate with other reviewers and their office teams to ensure clarity of information and ensure all questions posed have been addressed, and ensure that reports are returned within client deadlines.

Core Duties & Responsibilities:

• Evaluates the appropriateness of codes and determine whether they meet all established program standards.
• Ensures that the medical records are matched appropriately to the codes and if not, obtains them.
• Read & apply policy guidelines and healthcare terminology and delineate when criteria are/are not met.
• Evaluates claims for conflict of interest and criteria appropriateness.
• Works within established timeframes set by program parameters.
• Provides strong customer service skills and works closely with clients on a case- by-case basis to provide complete, timely, and error-free quality assurance of cases.
• Provides clinical oversight to cases that are complex and need additional review prior to return to the client.
• Serves as an additional level of QA and clinical knowledge/review for cases with quality Issues.