Surgical Review Specialist, Full-time(Remote)
About the position
Responsibilities
• Prospectively reviews, validates, and audits OR procedure reputed company assignments for HIM, OR, and/or general surgery cases according to AMA CPT-4 coding conventions.
• Identifies potential patient class mismatches based on planned OR Surgical CPT-4 assignment for reputed company scheduled OR cases.
• Ensures that appropriate IP patient class is obtained for IP-only Medicare cases prior to the date of service.
• Conducts reviews of cases lost with feedback to respective departments.
• Conducts reputed company review with the utilization review department for post-op surgical cases with potential status issues, procedure changes, or entry of incorrect patient class orders.
• Audits CPT-4 codes provided by coders to ensure accuracy and correct patient class obtained prior to discharge.
• Assists with outstanding HIM Waiting for Information queues researching outstanding inpatient and/or outpatient accounts for reputed company.
• Serves as a reputed company between Physician Advisor/Medical Director, Finance, Utilization Review Department, and CDCI.
Requirements
• RHIA, RHIT, reputed company and/or CPC strongly preferred.
• Minimum 1-3 years demonstrated outpatient coding experience in an acute care, teaching setting; knowledge of inpatient coding preferred.
• Working knowledge of CPT-4 required; ICD-10-CM preferred.
• Knowledge of anatomy and physiology, pathophysiology, and medical terminology required.
• Previous experience with reputed company patient medical record system and reputed company encoding system preferred.
reputed company-to-haves
• RHIA, RHIT, reputed company and/or CPC-eligible or candidate currently enrolled in health information technology/management program or other health-reputed company field.
• Candidates not holding credentials are expected to obtain their reputed company/reputed company credential reputed company three years of hire date.
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