HIM Outpatient Coding Lead Specialist

Full-time, 40 hours/week

Monday-Friday 8am-4:30pm

Remote (prefer candidates reside in OH/PA)

Summary:

The Health Information Management Outpatient Coding Lead Specialist facilitate the reimbursement and data collection for Akron Children's Hospital Ambulatory Surgery, Observation. ICD-10-CM and CPT codes are assigned for the diagnosis and procedures for all outpatient accounts. Medical record abstract data is reviewed for accuracy in Epic before completing the chart.

Responsibilities:

• Create education teams and topics for internal coding consistencies. Research for information regarding changes or updates to coding procedures/requirements.

• Assists manager with training and educating new or existing coding specialist. Provides cross training when necessary.

• Assists with auditing coded records.

• Answers ongoing coder questions and listed to problems/concerns and offer suggestions or solutions.

• Provides coding manager with input from medical record specialist regarding performance reviews.

• Works as a collaborative team member with Revenue Cycle Department, Quality Service Department and Finance Department to ensure optimization of reimbursement.

• Reviews abstracted data elements such as patient information, dates of service, point of origin, discharge disposition and attending provider and makes the necessary changes in EPIC.

• Reviews operative reports, progress notes, dictated reports, pathology reports, cytology reports, x-ray reports, laboratory reports, and other medical record information by accessing the electronic record via EPIC.

• Abstracts clinical data from these same patient records and performs data entry into clinical/statistical database.

• Other duties as required.

Other information:

Technical Expertise

• Experience in health information management is required.
• Experience in ICD-10-CM, CPT coding and classification systems is required.
• Experience: 2 years of coding is required.
• Experience working with all levels within an organization is preferred.
• Experience in healthcare is preferred.
• Proficiency in MS Office [Outlook, Excel, Word] or similar software is required. 3M software is preferred.

Education and Experience

• Education: Associate degree in health information or related field is preferred; bachelor's degree is preferred.
• Certification: AHIMA or AAPC certification is required.
• Years of relevant experience: 2 years minimum required. Minimum of 3 years is preferred.
• Years of experience supervising: None.

Full Time

FTE: 1.000000

Status: Remote