Lead Coder

Evaluates medical records, provides clinical abstracts and assigns appropriate clinical diagnosis and procedure codes

• 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 the federal and state payment systems.

Supervises the coding department

• Distribution of work assignments.
• Dissemination of current coding guidelines and modern technology information.
• Provides relevant coding education to the coders, clinicians, and revenue cycle staff.

Qualifications

• Knowledge and understanding of ICD10 and CPT coding principles as recommended by the American Health Information Management Association coding competencies.
• One or more years of experience providing coding services for a broad range of hospital and acute care facilities.
• Must be able to achieve an acceptable accuracy rate on the coding audits administered by the hiring facility according to pre-established company standards.
• Minimum of successful completion of a coding certificate program in a program with AHIMA approval status. RHIT or CCS preferred.
• Prior hospital coding experience required.
• Meditech experience preferred; 3M Coding and Reimbursement experience required.
• Extensive knowledge of medical records principles and practices, anatomy, physiology, pathology, medical terminology, standard nomenclature, and classification of diagnoses and operations.