Health Information Analyst

About the role

It's more than a career, it's a calling.

Pay

$18.00 – $25.85 per hour. Compensation is based on relevant experience, labor market, and other qualifications; the posted range reflects SSM Health’s good-faith expectation at the time of posting and may be adjusted as permitted by law.

Responsibilities

• Analyzes medical records for content to ensure compliance with entity and regulatory standards.
• Reviews medical records and identifies documentation deficiencies according to established medical record standards.
• Ensures physician auto-populated deficiencies are accurately assigned to optimize physician satisfaction.
• Performs follow-up procedures on coding work queues to ensure timely coding of all records.
• Analyzes scanned documents to verify completeness, clarity, correct patient identification, and proper document-type assignment for patient safety.
• Identifies physicians meeting suspension criteria per the ministry medical record completion policy and Medical Staff Bylaws, Rules and Regulations.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• High School diploma or GED, or 10 years of relevant work experience.
• Two years of experience.

Physical Requirements

• Frequent lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing 0–25 lbs.
• Frequent sitting, standing, walking, reaching and repetitive foot/leg and hand/arm movements.
• Frequent use of vision and depth perception for distances near (≤20 inches) and far (>20 feet) and to identify and distinguish colors.
• Frequent use of hearing and speech to share information through oral communication; ability to hear alarms and malfunctioning machinery.
• Frequent keyboard use/data entry.
• Occasional bending, stooping, kneeling, squatting, twisting and gripping.
• Occasional lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing 25–50 lbs.
• Rare climbing.

Schedule

Day shift in the United States of America; 40 scheduled hours per week.