Assigns appropriate ICD-10-CM/PCS codes to inpatient accounts as per designated workflow
Abstracts and enters coded data for hospital statistical and reporting requirements
Assigns present on admission indicators and discharge dispositions
Queries physicians to clarify conflicting, imprecise, incomplete, ambiguous, and/or inconsistent clinical information when appropriate
Communicates documentation improvement opportunities and coding issues to appropriate personnel for follow up and resolution
Communicates with Clinical Documentation Improvement and/or Revenue Cycle teams for follow up and reconciliation of accounts
Maintains required productivity and quality requirements
Maintains coding credential requirements

Candidate must possess a valid CCS credential (AHIMA)
3+ years of Inpatient coding in large Academic/Trauma 1 setting required (600+ bed facilities)
Must be proficient in ICD-10-CM and ICD-10-PCS coding
Experience with Epic & Solventum is preferred
3+ years of coding within the US is required
Coders must have an understanding of Elixhauser codes (ID’d in the encoder) to ensure auto sequencing is occurring correctly and to code any and all Elixhauser comorbidities.
We need coders to have an awareness of Vizient data and impact to the organization if the case is a mortality and/or POA status is incorrect (examples would include a mortality that falls to a DRG family where no provider from that team interacted with the patient, HAC or PSI conditions where the documentation is questionable and the coder needs to raise a query).

Inpatient Coder

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