Lead Coder
Wayne Memorial Hospital Honesdale, Pa · Honesdale, PA · 1 mo ago
On-siteEngineeringFull-time
About the role
Full‑time, on‑site position.
Responsibilities
- Evaluates medical records, provides clinical abstracts and assigns appropriate clinical diagnosis and procedure codes for both inpatient and outpatient services in accordance with nationally recognized coding guidelines.
- Maintains quality standards of having 95% of principal diagnoses and procedures correctly coded.
- Serves as a liaison between clinicians and the coding staff.
- Collaborates with all members of the revenue cycle to ensure data quality and optimum reimbursement allowable under federal and state payment systems.
- Supervises the coding department, including distribution of work assignments, dissemination of current coding guidelines and modern technology information, and providing relevant coding education to coders, clinicians, and revenue cycle staff.
Requirements
- One or more years of experience providing coding services for a broad range of hospital and acute care facilities.
- Ability to achieve an acceptable accuracy rate on coding audits administered by the hiring facility according to pre‑established company standards.
- Successful completion of a coding certificate program from a program with AHIMA approval status.
- RHIT or CCS certification preferred.
- Prior hospital coding experience required.
- Meditech experience preferred; 3M Coding and Reimbursement experience required.
Skills
- Knowledge and understanding of ICD‑10 and CPT coding principles as recommended by AHIMA.
- Extensive knowledge of medical records principles and practices, anatomy, physiology, pathology, medical terminology, standard nomenclature, and classification of diagnoses and operations.