 Accretive Health (NYSE: "AH") is a leading provider of services and technology to healthcare providers. Our mission is to help our healthcare clients strengthen their financial stability and deliver better care at a more affordable cost to the communities they serve, increasing healthcare access for all. Our distinctive operating model that includes people, process, and sophisticated integrated technology helps our customers realize sustainable improvements in their operating margins and improve the satisfaction of their patients, physicians, and staff. Our customers typically are multi-hospital systems, including faith-based or community healthcare systems, academic medical centers and independent ambulatory clinics, and their affiliated physician practice groups. Accretive Health offers a continuum of offerings to service our clients' needs. These offerings include: Provider Business Solutions ("PBS"), which improves the entire revenue cycle of our provider clients, unlike competing services that address only a portion of the revenue cycle or focus solely on cost reductions; Physician Advisory Services ("PAS"), which works closely with the hospital medical staff, case management, and senior leadership to strengthen compliance, limit denials, improve revenue integrity, and improve efficiency; and Population Health Solutions ("PHS"), which spans the entire healthcare delivery continuum and enables providers to manage the health of their patient populations by delivering higher-quality care while reducing aggregate cost of care. |
Designation
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Analyst/sr. Analyst- Medical Coding
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Job Description
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Review clinical documentation and diagnostic results as appropriate (i.e., to extract data and apply appropriate ICD-10-CM/CPT-4 codes for billing, internal and external reporting, research, and regulatory compliance). Under the direction of Health Information Management, must be able to accurately code conditions and procedures of at least one outpatient patient type (ED, ancillary, radiology, ePARS) per the Coding Guidelines.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
*5 to 7 activities and outcomes that require a significant amount of time and/or periodic tasks and outcomes that are critical to the job
*Provide an indication of task or outcome complexity
*Throughly reviews all documenation in the medical record and assigns codes for all diagnoses, treatments, and procedures according to the appropriate classification system for outpatient encounters.
* Reviews physician assigned diagnosis code after thorough review of the medical record and, if necessary, queries physician for additional clarity in a professional manner.
* Able to accurately abstract information from the medial records into the abstract system, according to established guidelines.
* Abides by the Standards of Ethical Coding as set forth by the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) and adheres to official coding guidelines.
* Consistently meets all productivity and quality metrics
Typical Qualifications
1. CPC, CPC-H or CCS
2. Must be able to demonstrate proficiency in at least one outpatient coding type with 95%-99% accuracy.
3. 0-2 years of outpatient experience.
4. Must be able to use standard office equipment and information systems
5. Ability to interact with other employees through effective communication.
6. Ability to prioritize and shift workloads.
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