Job is Expired
Location: Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Iowa, Nebraska, Nevada, Utah, Wyoming
Compensation: To Be Discussed
Staff Reviewed: Tue, Nov 24, 2015
Job Summary
A non-profit health system is filling a position for a Remote Acute Care Senior Coder.
Candidates will be responsible for the following:
- Providing coding and abstracting services
- Reviewing diagnosis and diagnostic information and codes and abstracts diagnoses and/or surgical procedures
- Completing DRG and APC assignments on inpatient or outpatient record as appropriate
Applicants must meet the following qualifications:
- Must be able to achieve an acceptable accuracy rate on the coding test administered by the hiring facility according to pre-established company standards.
- Must be able to work effectively with common office software and coding software and abstracting systems
- Requires a high school degree or equivalent and specialized formal training in medical record keeping principles and practices, anatomy, physiology, pathology, medical terminology, standard nomenclature, and classification of diagnoses and operations, or an Associates degree in a health care field.
- Requires Certified Coding Specialist (CCS) or Certified Professional Coder (CPC) or Certified Coding Specialist-Physician (CCS-P) or Registered Health Information Technologist (RHIT) or Registered Health Information Administration (RHIA) in an active status with the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) or American Academy of Professional Coders (AAPC).
- Must demonstrate a level of knowledge and understanding of ICD and/or CPT coding principles as recommended by the American Health Information Management Association coding competencies, and as normally demonstrated by certification by the American Academy of Professional Coders
- Requires three or more years of experience providing coding services for a broad range of hospital and acute care facilities