Cancer Registrar - Remote

About the role

Responsible for accurately coding complete, and concurrent abstraction of oncology patient data to be utilized by administration, clinical trials, research, state and national reporting, maintaining certifications, accreditations, and quality improvement within the Oncology Services.

Responsibilities

• Identifies all cases to be entered into the Suspense section of the Cancer Registry Data Base.
• Accurately completes an electronic abstract on each eligible primary including all medical, social, family, work, and environmental histories, cancer identification, staging, all treatment, and follow up information using regulations from all available resources.
• Completes and verifies the accurate physician TNM Stage, Summary Stage and Collaborative staging systems. The abstract must be completely documented with text, accurate coding assigned for diagnosing information, cancer identification, staging, and all treatment information.
• Abstracts 100% of all identified cancer patient diagnosis, staging, and treatment into the WVU Medicine Cancer Registry system with 90% accuracy. Abstracts must be completed within the mandated timeframe set by state and national guidelines.
• Identifies and reports all documentation errors and discrepancies to the registry manager.
• Maintain vital status, cancer status, recurrence, any additional treatments for patient's lifetime. Follow up procedures include: all available EMRs systems, phone contacts, letters to physicians, patients, and other agencies as appropriate.
• Participates in the Cancer Committee meetings and in accreditation surveys as requested.
• Completes all Special Quality Studies as required by the COC.
• Participates in all scheduled Health System conference calls, meetings, and education webinars, provides updates for quality improvement, software updates, and policies and procedures changes.
• Promotes and contributes positively to the teamwork of the department by volunteering to assist co-workers, contributing ideas, and problem solving with co-workers.
• Programs electronic data reports for research as requested by administration, physicians, and research projects.
• Collects and analyzes data for reports such as survival percentages, population analyses, and site-specific data.
• Participates in planning, implementing change, maintaining, and improving productivity through attendance and participation in staff meetings, committees, task forces, projects, and discussions with manager.

Qualifications

• High School Diploma or equivalent.
• Associate’s Degree in Health Science Field with completed college courses in Anatomy and Physiology, Medical Terminology and Pathology.
• Certified Tumor Registrar (CTR Certification) with required CE’s maintained with annual renewal of certification.
• One (1) year of experience as a CTR experience in a hospital cancer registry.
• One (1) year of experience with Cancer Treatment Guidelines.
• Experience with the principles, procedures, medical terminology of malignant diseases, tumor classification by the primary site and histology.
• Experience with the Release of Information and the IRB law requirements.