About this role
Role Overview
- Health information coding is the transformation of verbal descriptions of diseases, injuries, and procedures into numeric or alphanumeric designations.
- Responsible for translating diagnostic and procedural phrases utilized by healthcare providers into coded form procedure codes.
- Reviews the content of the medical record for hospital and professional inpatient or outpatient records to identify principal diagnosis, secondary diagnoses and procedures performed.
- Carefully details review of documents such as laboratory findings, radiology reports, various scan reports, and more.
- Updates and corrects historical file data by completing and submitting claim action reports.
Requirements
- Health information coding certification preferred
- Specialty training / completion of billing/coding diploma
- One of the following certifications required at time of hire: Certified Professional Coder (CPC), Certified Risk Adjustment Coder (CRC), Certified Coding Specialist (CCS), Registered Health Information Technician (RHIT)
- Minimum of 1 year related work experience preferred
Benefits
- Healthcare benefits for full time and part time positions from day one
- Vision insurance
- Dental insurance
- Benefits for domestic partners