Job Description: Medical Coder

Position Overview

Virtua Health is seeking a skilled Medical Coder to accurately code and abstract hospital medical records. This role is crucial for ensuring the accuracy of coding and abstracting, meeting productivity standards, and collaborating with medical staff and Clinical Documentation Improvement (CDI) staff to clarify documentation. The Medical Coder will maintain performance in accordance with corporate compliance requirements, including Diagnosis Related Group (DRG) assignment.

Employment Type

• Employment Type: Full-time
• Employment Classification: Regular
• Time Type: Full-time
• Work Shift: 1st Shift

Location

• Location Type: 100% Remote
• Eligible States: AZ, CT, DE, FL, GA, ID, KY, MD, MO, NC, NH, NJ, NY, PA, SC, TN, TX, VA, WI, WV

Responsibilities

• Accurately review medical records and utilize ICD-10-CM, ICD-10-PCS, CPT-4, and encoder to code all significant diagnoses and procedures.
• Adhere to American Hospital Association (AHA), American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA), Uniform Hospital Discharge Data Set (UHDDS), and hospital-specific guidelines and rules/conventions.
• Code records for Inpatients, Observation, Outpatient Surgery, Invasive Outpatients, and Emergency Department.
• Sequence principal (or first-listed) diagnosis and principal procedures according to documentation and UHDDS definitions.
• Utilize ongoing knowledge of DRGs to validate DRG assignments.
• Accurately use federal and state regulations and guidelines regarding definitions and prioritizing of abstract data elements to ensure database uniformity.
• Abstract required data into the computer system according to procedure.
• Utilize equipment and processes efficiently for coding and abstracting, following established downtime procedures as needed.
• Participate in maintaining DNB (Discharged Not Billed) and accounts receivable goals.
• Maintain department-level competencies.
• Participate in performance improvement activities.

Company Information

At Virtua Health, our mission is to better serve our community by being present in all the moments that matter. We strive to connect individuals with the care they need, from wellness and prevention to specialized and life-changing treatments. Virtua Health is a Magnet-recognized health system, ranked by U.S. News and World Report, and has received multiple awards for quality, safety, and its outstanding work environment.

With five hospitals, seven emergency departments, seven urgent care centers, and over 280 other locations, Virtua Health is committed to community well-being. We provide life-changing resources and health services through programs like Eat Well, telehealth, home health, rehabilitation, mobile screenings, and paramedic programs. We are also affiliated with Penn Medicine for cancer and neurosciences, and the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia for pediatrics.

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