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