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:

1. Create education teams and topics for internal coding consistencies. Research for information regarding changes or updates to coding procedures/requirements.
2. Assists manager with training and educating new or existing coding specialist. Provides cross training when necessary.
3. Assists with auditing coded records.
4. Answers ongoing coder questions and listed to problems/concerns and offer suggestions or solutions.
5. Provides coding manager with input from medical record specialist regarding performance reviews.
6. Works as a collaborative team member with Revenue Cycle Department, Quality Service Department and Finance Department to ensure optimization of reimbursement.
7. 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.
8. 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.
9. Abstracts clinical data from these same patient records and performs data entry into clinical/statistical database.
10. Other duties as required.

Other information:

Technical Expertise

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

Education and Experience

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

Full Time

FTE: 1.000000

Status: Remote