Inpatient Coder

Welcome to Ovation Healthcare!

At Ovation Healthcare, we’ve been making local healthcare better for more than 40 years. Our mission is to strengthen independent community healthcare. We provide independent hospitals and health systems with the support, guidance and tech-enabled shared services needed to remain strong and viable. With a strong sense of purpose and commitment to operating excellence, we help rural healthcare providers fulfill their missions.

The Ovation Healthcare difference is the extraordinary combination of operations experience and consulting guidance that fulfills our mission of creating a sustainable future for healthcare organizations. Ovation Healthcare's vision is to be a dynamic, integrated professional services company delivering innovative and executable solutions through experience and thought leadership, while valuing trust, respect, and customer focused behavior.

We’re looking for talented, motivated professionals with a desire to help independent hospitals thrive. Working with Ovation Healthcare you will have the opportunity to collaborate with highly skilled subject matter specialists and operations executives, in a collegial atmosphere of professionalism and teamwork.

Ovation Healthcare's corporate headquarters is located in Brentwood, TN. For more information, visit https://ovationhc.com.

Description

Amplify, an Ovation Healthcare company is seeking Certified Professional and/or Facility Coders with a minimum of three years' experience in a hospital and/or clinic setting coding, prefer Critical Access Hospital and Rural Health but not necessary. Seeking knowledge in the following areas, Inpatient, Observations, Emergency, Same Day Surgery, Ancillary, Recurring therapies, Provider-based and Free standing clinics/offices. Must be able to pass testing on proficiency and knowledge. Must be proficient in excel, can multi-task, excellent communication skills both verbally and in writing. Must be able to maintain a 95% QA accuracy rate as well as productivity standards. Must be able to follow official coding guidelines.
 

Duties and Responsibilities

• Apply appropriate coding classification standards and guidelines to medical record documentation for accurate coding.

• Resolve medical record documentation deficiencies through healthcare provider query, and provides routine feedback to healthcare providers to correct deficiencies.

• Perform quality assessment of records, including verification of medical record documentation (both electronic and hand written).

• Responsible for researching errors or missing documentation from medical record, in order to provide accurate coding processes.

• Abstracts and assigns the appropriate ICD-10-CM/PCS, CPT® and HCPCS codes; including Level I & Level II modifiers as appropriate for all diagnosis and procedures performed in an outpatient and inpatient setting.

Skills/Experience

• Must have inpatient medical and surgical coding experience, including complicated procedures.

• Must have experience coding for trauma centers and teaching facilities.

• Must be able to pass a coding assessment.

• Must be proficient in Microsoft Office, including Excel, Outlook, and Teams.

• Must have the ability to multi-task and excellent communication skills.

• Must maintain a 95% QA accuracy rate and meet production expectations.

• Must be able to apply official coding guidelines and Coding Clinics.

• Must have experience working in a remote environment. ​Three years’ experience in Hospital Facility coding

• AHIMA Certified: RHIA, RHIT, CCS. Consideration will be made for those with an AAPC coding certification with strong Hospital facility coding experience

• ICD-10-CM/PCS, CPT® and HCPCS

• AHIMA/AAPC Membership

Qualifications, Duties, and Responsibilities  

• Apply appropriate coding classification standards and guidelines to medical record documentation for accurate coding.  

• Submit necessary provider queries to resolve documentation discrepancies.

• Perform quality assessment of records, including verification of medical record documentation.

• Responsible for researching errors or missing documentation from medical records to provide accurate coding processes.  

• Abstracts and assigns the appropriate ICD-10-CM/PCS codes for all diagnoses and procedures performed in the outpatient and inpatient settings as applicable.

Required Skills/Experience 

• Three years’ coding experience.

• AHIMA/AAPC Credentials.