Total 1 Health / Beauty / Fitness job vacancies in remote, SP4 7QA

Duties include but not limited to:

• GS-04:
  • Reviews record documentation to abstract all required medical, surgical, ancillary, demographic, social, and administrative data with guidance and instruction from supervisor or senior coder to develop knowledge of the organization and structure of an electronic patient record.
  • Applies knowledge of medical record content, medical terminology, anatomy and physiology, diseases processes, and official coding guidelines to assign codes to the most basic and routine inpatient services.
  • With instruction from a senior coder or supervisor learns to select diagnosis, operation, or procedure codes based on the accepted coding practices, guidelines, conventions and policy.
• GS-05:
  • Maintains current knowledge of regulatory and policy requirements affecting coded information.
  • Assigns codes to documented patient care encounters (inpatient and outpatient); encounters are routine and less complex or for only one specialty or subspecialty.
  • Reviews health record documentation to abstract all required medical, surgical, ancillary, demographic, social, and administrative data. Patient health records may be paper or electronic.
• GS-06:
  • Assists facility staff with basic documentation requirements to reflect the patient care provided; provides support in the areas of regulations and policy, coding requirements, resident supervision, reimbursement, accepted nomenclature, and proper sequencing.
  • Uses skill and knowledge of the organization and structure of the patient health record to capture and justify code assignment.
  • Uses a variety of computer applications in day to day activities and duties, such as Outlook, Excel, Word, and Access; competent in use of the health record applications (VistA and CPRS) as well as the encoder product suite.
• GS-07:
  • Assists facility staff with documentation requirements to completely and accurately reflect the patient care provided; provides technical support in the areas of regulations and policy, coding requirements, resident supervision, reimbursement, workload, accepted nomenclature, and proper sequencing. Insures provider documentation is complete and supports the diagnoses and procedures coded.
  • Utilizes the facility computer system and software applications to correctly code, abstract, record, and transmit data to the national VA database in Austin.
  • Performs a comprehensive review of the patient health record to abstract medical, surgical, ancillary, demographic, social, and administrative data to ensure complete data capture. Patient health records may be paper or electronic. The abstracted data has many purposes, for example, to profile the facility services and patient population, to determine budgetary requirements, to report to accrediting and peer review organizations, to bill insurance companies and other agencies, and to support research programs.
• GS-8:
  • Code all inpatient stays (facility and professional fees), all write-in diagnoses and procedures for outpatient encounters and laboratory, radiology, surgical and outpatient encounters that are billed to insurance companies. Codes information from the medial records of patients to generate a clinical care patient care database for the Medical Center. Assures the maintenance and accuracy of the diagnostic and procedural statistics for the facility as well as optimum appropriate reimbursement from the third party payers, by the timely and accurate coding of diagnoses and procedures utilizing the required classification system.
  • Captures data through the Ambulatory Care Data Capture Superbill Form (both printed and electronic), electronic visit notes, the Quadramed/DSS Complaint Coding Module (CCM) and the Patient Treatment File (PTF) in Vista and in Quadramed/DSS. Converts narrative electronic visit notes to ICD, CPT and HCPCS codes.
  • Manually code from the medical record documentation and enter into the appropriate software packages. Inpatient data is captured by the Coders reading the electronic and paper medical record then converting the narrative to ICD, CPT and HCPCS codes.