[Hiring] Inpatient/Outpatient Medical Coder @Posterity Group LLC

Role Description

Posterity Group LLC is tasked with staffing the Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center with In/Outpatient Remote Medical Coders. The Medical Coder is expected to:

• Accurately attach images to the appropriate electronic health record elements.
• Verify that images are uploaded correctly and are legible for viewing.
• Locate Financial Identification Numbers (FINs) and accurately link documents to the correct veteran record.
• Index documents within the correct section, note title, date of service, and visit location.
• Perform 100% internal QA on all work before submission.
• Process Inpatient and Outpatient coding within five (5) calendar days of assignment, with a goal of greater than 95% compliance.
• Process all re-codes, rejects, and corrections without delay once reassigned, with a goal of greater than 95% compliance.

Qualifications

• At least one current coding certification from AHIMA or AAPC (RHIT, RHIA, CCS, CCS-P, CPC, COC, CIC).
• A minimum of two (2) years of continuous professional coding experience in a VA facility comparable in size and complexity to VA Northeast Ohio Healthcare System, or equivalent.
• United States citizenship and proficiency in spoken and written English.
• Demonstrated ability to code across all major inpatient, outpatient, and surgical specialties.
• Demonstrate proficiency in applying appropriate coding conventions across all care settings, including inpatient, outpatient, professional services, and surgical encounter/FINs.
• Ability to query providers and resolve documentation discrepancies following the VHA Provider Query Process.
• Proficiency in Oracle Health coding processes and familiarity with legacy systems (VistA, CPRS, VIRR).
• Ability to analyze the health record to identify all pertinent diagnoses and procedures for coding and to evaluate the adequacy of the documentation.
• Ability to read and understand the content of the health record, the terminology, the significance of the comments, and the disease process/pathophysiology of the patient.
• Ability to accurately perform the full scope of assigned coding, including ambulatory surgical cases, diagnostic studies and procedures, outpatient encounter/FINs, inpatient facility coding, including inpatient discharges, surgical cases, diagnostic studies and procedures, and inpatient professional services.
• Skill in interpreting and adapting health information guidelines that are not completely applicable to the work, or have gaps in specificity.
• Ability to meet or exceed coding targets:
  • 3 inpatient PTFs (to include professional and surgery services as applicable).
  • 25 outpatient/prosthetics services encounter/FINs.
  • 9 surgical services encounter/FINs (to include anesthesia and pathology as applicable) per day.
• Demonstrate ability to review all Service Connection and Service Authority questions at the diagnosis level when prompted.
• Exclude from coding information such as symptoms or signs characteristic of the definitive diagnoses.

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