Medical Coding Auditor
IKS Health
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: United States
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Salary
💰 $33 - $36 per hour
About the role
- Conduct clinical coding audits as defined by client contracts
- Coordinate and oversee the coder onboarding process for assigned clients
- Manage the performance of all quality for assigned clients
- Monitor and enforce compliance and quality program
- Ensure adherence to State and National Practice Standards for coding
- Serve as an official resource for coding related questions from the coding staff
- Provide project status reports to operational leadership
- Monitor employee coding accuracy rates on a weekly basis
- Work directly with coding management team to ensure educational needs of coder are met
- Provide coaching, as needed
- Assures internal coding audits are completed accurately and timely
- Conducts coding audits adhering to nationally recognized coding guidelines and standards
- Provides input and advice regarding educational topics based on audit trends
- Represents company via professional meeting attendance and communication
- Interacts with audit peers, manager, coding staff and operations team
- Abides by the Standards of Ethical Coding as set forth by AHIMA
- Maintains appropriate QA/QI and/or productivity logs or record entries
- Attend internal and external meetings, as needed and requested to provide input and act as a coding information resource/expert
Requirements
- 3 yrs plus of experience coding Profee/PB charts.
- Experience uisng: Athena, Cerner, Epic, 3M, (TruCode Preferred)
- AHIMA or AAPC Coding credential is required: RHIA, CPC, RHIT
- Broad-based audit experience with professional fee coding
- Requires strong interpersonal communication skills, both verbal and written
- Requires a high level of coding accuracy and attention to detail
- Experience with using multiple encoders and systems
- Strong knowledge of Google Suite- Gmail, Google Doc, Google Sheets is required
Benefits
- healthcare
- 401k
- paid time off
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
clinical coding auditscoding accuracycoding guidelinesaudit experienceProfee codingPB codingencoder usagequality assurancecompliance monitoringeducational coaching
Soft Skills
interpersonal communicationverbal communicationwritten communicationattention to detailcoachingteam collaborationresourcefulnessreportingproblem-solvingleadership
Certifications
AHIMAAAPCRHIACPCRHIT