Inpatient Coder- Hospital

Job Family: General Coding Travel Required: None Clearance Required: None What You Will Do: Demonstrates the ability to perform quality hospital coding on Inpatient accounts including Medicare/Non Medicare, Surgical, Medical, Cardiac, moms/babies, and trauma cases Maintains a working knowledge of ICD-10 PCS, governmental regulations, official coding guidelines, and third-party requirements regarding documentation and billing Assures that all services documented in the patient’s chart are coded with appropriate ICD-10/PCS codes When services/diagnoses are not documented appropriately, seeks to attain proper documentation in a timely manner according to facility standards Achieves and maintains 96% accuracy in coding while maintaining a high level of productivity Ability to maintain average productivity standards as follows: 1 IP charts per hour final coded (these productivity standards are Guidehouse general expectations and are subject to change based upon Guidehouse client agreements and/or other factors as determined by management. Notification of expected productivity will be conveyed by Management prior to assignment of a client project) Responsible for following facility specific policies and procedures Works pending queues daily Follows facility query policy and CDI reconciliation process Charts that require re-bills are corrected and communicated to the facility daily for the re-bill process. See re-bill policy in facility guidelines Coder downtime must be reported imm