Kaweah Health

Medical Billing and Coding

• Codes and abstracts diagnoses and patient information from outpatient ancillary encounters and enters data into the hospital information system
• Verifies abstracted hospital information fields for accuracy and completeness
• Monitors daily data printout to assure completion of all outpatient records requiring coding and abstracting
• Communicates with physicians or physician office staff when documentation is unclear or insufficient to complete the coding process
• Maintains coding proficiency through self-directed continuing education

HIM Coding Specialist I

Data Analyst

• Serves as an organizational resource in reviewing, understanding, analyzing and using data for the purpose of measuring or improving performance
• Leads small projects, and often works multiple complex projects
• Confirms project requirements by analyzing user requirements, conferring with others on project team
• Analyzes current system/application capabilities for possible solutions to minimize development
• Supports, manages, and organizes electronic data according to Kaweah’s policies and standards
• Gathers and interprets relevant data and information
• Develops and maintains integrated data and uses inductive reasoning supplying strong evidence for solutions/conclusions
• Thinks analytically and is a problem solver
• Performs structured data requirements analysis and data modeling in support of application development for relational and reporting databases
• Works collaboratively as part of a team, as well as independently under own initiative.

HIM Coding Specialist I

Senior Data Analyst