01Responsibilities
Review outpatient medical records to assign appropriate ICD-10, CPT, and HCPCS codes.
Ensure coding accuracy and compliance with regulations, payer policies, and guidelines.
Work with billing teams to prepare and submit claims, resolving any coding-related denials.
Collaborate with healthcare providers to clarify documentation and ensure proper code assignment.
Stay current on coding updates and payer requirements.
Demonstrative effective communication and response using systems available to both the Hospital Coder and management through telephone and email communication.
Demonstrate effective use of required software.
The duties listed are general in nature and are examples of the duties and responsibilities performed and are not meant to be construed as exclusive or all-inclusive.
Environmental and Physical Demands:
Requires no exposure to unpleasant or disagreeable physical environment such as high noise level and exposure to heat and cold, no handling or working with potentially dangerous equipment, occasional working hours beyond regularly scheduled hours, occasional travelling to offsite locations, frequent activities subject to significant volume changes of a seasonal/clinical nature, constant work produced is subject to precise measures of quantity and quality, occasional bending, occasional lifting/carrying up to 10 pounds, occasional lifting/carrying up to 25 pounds, no lifting/carrying up to 50 Hel
