Position Overview:
The ED (Emergency Department) Coder is responsible for accurately and efficiently (maintaining quality and productivity standards) identifying and assigning medical codes for payment based on medical records or other documentation as provided. This may or may not include capturing MIPS data appropriately.
Duties & Responsibilities:
Provide CPT, ICD10, modifier[s], and MIPS coding services for advanced medical specialties, including Emergency Medicine, Critical Care, inpatient and outpatient professional services.
- Investigate and resolve coding denials and documentation discrepancies.
- Special projects as assigned.
- Provide coding services through computer-assisted vendor and for high profile clients
Required Skills & Abilities:
- Communication Skills: Demonstrates the ability to communicate clearly and effectively by phone, system notes, email, etc.
- Results Oriented: The ability to focus on the desired result of one’s one work, setting challenging goals, focusing effort on the goals and meeting or exceeding them.
- Detail Oriented: Careful and with a focus on quality in accomplishing tasks.
- Time-Management: Manages own time; takes personal responsibility for timeliness of work priorities and resources to achieve results and goals.
- Critical Thinking/Problem Solving: Ability to break down a situation into smaller pieces to identify key/underlying issues.
- Coach ability: Being receptive to feedback, willing to learn, embracing continuous improvement
- Ethics: Has personal and professional ethics and fosters a diverse and respectful workplace.
- Technological: Demonstrates ability to use technology to create efficient processes and organizational methods. Demonstrates basic understanding of billing system; able to complete basic tasks based on job function.
- Team work: Ability to work well in a team setting.
- Proactive approach to monitoring client status
- Adapts to changing business needs, conditions, work responsibilities
Education & Experience:
- Proven ED (Emergency Department) coding experience required.
- 3+ year’s industry experience
- Certified Coder Certification required from AHIMA or AAPC; specialty certification a plus
- Microsoft Office (Outlook, Word, Excel, and EMR applications (EPIC, CERNER, etc.) a plus
Physical Requirements:
- Prolonged periods sitting at a desk and working on a computer
- Must be able to lift up to 15 pounds