Senior Complex Coder Inpatient

Primary City/State:

Arizona, Arizona

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Work Shift:

Day

Job Category:

Revenue Cycle

A rewarding career that fits your life. As an employer of the future, we are proud to offer our team members many career and lifestyle choices including remote work options. If you’re looking to leverage your abilities – you belong at Banner Health.

Looking for a motivated, experienced Senior Complex Inpatient Facility | Acute Care | HIMS Coder -Remote | Medical Coder to join our talented Acute Care HIMS Coding Team. Ideally a minimum 5 years of inpatient coding experience in Acute Care inpatient facility coding. This requires Certified Coding Specialist (CCS) or Certified Outpatient Coder (COC) or Certified Professional Coder (CPC) or Registered Health Information Technologist (RHIT) or Registered Health Information Administration (RHIA) or other appropriate coding certification in an active status with the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) or American Academy of Professional Coders (AAPC).

Candidate should have experience coding all service lines including, but not limited to: Trauma, ICU, Cardiac, Transplant, Orthopedics, High-Risk OB, NICU, and more.  Must have ICD-10-PCS coding experience. Banner has facilities in major metro areas as well as rural communities.  The opportunity to code encounters from newborn babies to hospice patients and all service types in between presents itself on a daily basis.  Banner has internal Acute Care Coding Educators that work directly with the new employee until such time as they are deemed proficient in the role they are hired for.  Our IP coding expectation is 1-2 charts per while maintaining a DRG accuracy rate of 95% or higher. We use the number of accounts for specific patient types and specialties in combination with the Case Mix Index and case financial information to formulate performance to Banner standards, which are currently more stringent than most national standards identified.  Banner uses Optum eCAC - Optum® Enterprise CAC applies clinically intelligent Optum natural language processing (NLP) to review medical records and deliver comprehensive, accurate code suggestions.

This is a fully remote position and available if you live in the following states only: AK, AR, AZ, CA, CO, FL, GA, IA, ID, IN, KS, KY, MD,MI, MN, MO, MS, NC, ND, NE, NM, NV, NY, OH, OK, OR, PA, SC, TN, TX, UT, VA, WV, WA, WI & WY.

The hours are flexible as we have remote Coders across the Nation. Generally any 8-hour period  between 7am – 7pm can work, with production being the greatest emphasis.  

A Coding Assessment will be given after a successful interview to be completed within 48 hours. Banner Health provides your equipment when hired. You will be fully supported in during initial training by both the Banner Coding Education team and your hiring manager, with continued support throughout your career here!

*This position is for facility-based inpatient coding. Interested in Outpatient and/or Physician coding? Check some of our other Coder positions!

POSITION SUMMARY

This position provides coding and abstracting for high tiered complexity range of acute care services at all Banner hospitals. Reviews diagnosis and diagnostic information and codes and abstracts diagnoses and/or procedures on inpatient records using ICD CM and PCS coding classification systems. Completes MS-DRG and APR-DRG assignments on inpatient records as appropriate. Ensures ethical and accurate coding in accordance with all regulatory requirements and AHIMA Standards of Ethical Coding.  Acts as subject-matter expert regarding experimental and newly developed procedural and diagnostic inpatient coding.  This includes highest level of complexity of accounts encountered in Banner’s Academic, Trauma and high acuity facilities. Will serve as a role model for less experienced acute care coding Inpatient team members.

CORE FUNCTIONS

1. Analyzes medical information from medical records. Accurately codes diagnostic and procedural information in accordance with national coding guidelines and appropriate reimbursement requirements. Consults with medical providers to clarify missing or inadequate record information and to determine appropriate diagnostic and procedure codes. Provides timely and accurate coding in accordance to department specific productivity and quality standards thorough assignment of ICD CM and PCS codes, MS-DRGs, APR-DRGs and POAs for highest level of complexity of Inpatient accounts encountered in Banner’s Academic, Trauma and high acuity facilities.

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