Health Information Management Technician Senior
About Us
McLaren Health Care, headquartered in Grand Blanc, Michigan, is a $7.3 billion, fully integrated health care delivery system committed to quality, evidence-based patient care and cost efficiency. The McLaren system includes 12 hospitals in Michigan, ambulatory surgery centers, imaging centers, a 640-member employed primary and specialty care physician network, commercial and Medicaid HMOs covering more than 732,838 lives in Michigan and Indiana, home health, infusion and hospice providers, pharmacy services, a clinical laboratory network and a wholly owned medical malpractice insurance company. McLaren operates Michigan’s largest network of cancer centers and providers, anchored by the Karmanos Cancer Institute, a National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive cancer centers. McLaren has 20,000 full-, part-time and contracted employees and more than 113,000 network providers throughout Michigan, Indiana and Ohio.
Health Information Management Technician Senior
- Collects, tracks and reconciles patient medical record information obtained from departments or nursing units once patient is discharged.
- Utilizing facility guidelines batches, preps, scans, quality checks and validates, records for document storage and/or imaging.
- Affords assistance with physician chart completion and suspension processes including assigning and validating chart deficiencies, communicating with Providers regarding their incomplete records and assisting with distribution of reports, letters and statistics related to delinquent medical records.
- Escalates documentation holds to clinical and administrative personnel.
- Tracks tasks/time spent as well as meets or exceeds quality and production targets.
- Performs standardized chart audits following established guidelines/procedures.
- Accesses EMR (electronic medical records) system to support record completion, coding, release of information and overall management and maintenance of the legal health record.
- Performs EMPI tasks according to established policies, procedures, and timeframes.
- Assists with patient portal enrollment.
- Performs medical transcription tasks according to established policies, procedures, and timeframes.
Qualifications
- High School diploma
- Two years HIM experience.
- RHIT Certified or eligible (preferred)
- CRCR Certified (preferred)
- Associate’s degree in HIM or other related health care field. (preferred)