HIM Associate - Contract

Position: HIM Specialist
Location: Anderson, IN (Onsite)
6 months contract

Position description: The HIM specialist is responsible for the facilities' health record integrity associated with the following HIM processes: record analysis, deficiency monitoring/delinquency process, and/or registry maintenance. The HIM Specialist role is essential to assist with the completion of the Legal Medical Record for the health ministry for the purposes of treatment, continuity of care, reimbursement, regulatory compliance, and legal needs. The HIM Specialist may perform, when assigned duties associated with medical records processes and procedures for retrieval, preparation, scanning, indexing and quality review of paper documents.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
• Meets and/or exceeds productivity and quality standards
• Performs specific areas of responsibility
o Record analysis process
o Scanning/imaging
o Deficiency/Delinquency Monitoring
o EMR/Data Integrity
o DNFB/DNFC Assistance
o Registry Maintenance (e.g. Birth Registry)
o Regulatory standards compliance
o Basic knowledge of content and location of documents in LMR.
o All other duties as assigned.

Typical Qualifications
• Requires High School diploma or equivalent. At least one-year experience in an office environment, preferably in a health care setting.
• Knowledge of medical terminology desired
• Basic with Microsoft Office applications: Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, cloud and web-based functionality
• Effective verbal and written communication skills.
• Excellent organizational skills to manage variable responsibilities.
• Strong attention to details.
• Excellent interpersonal and teamwork skills.
• Excellent customer service skills
• Proficient use of standard office equipment, i.e. copier, phones, computer, printer, fax machine, scanner.