Medical Coder

About the role

Astrana Health is seeking a Medical Coder to join our team. This role reports to the Director - Revenue Cycle and plays a key part in scaling within the healthcare industry.

Responsibilities

• Extract diagnosis codes (specifically HCC codes) and CPT codes from hospital records.
• Reviews medical records to determine if specific disease conditions were correctly reported based on documentation.
• Follows the coding guidelines.
• Ensures project activities are in compliance with applicable coding guidelines, government and federal regulations.
• Maintains ongoing communication with management regarding coding workload, turnaround time expectations and deliverables.
• Additional duties as necessary to meet the obligations to our providers.
• Maintains at least 95% accuracy in all coding projects by researching literature and attending professional seminars, workshops and conferences as required by AAPC and/or AHIMA to maintain professional certification(s).

Qualifications

• Have a current coding certification (CPC, CRC, CCS) through AAPC and/or AHIMA.
• At least 2 years of medical coding experience.
• Experience coding cardiovascular/cardiothoracic surgical services (cardiac surgery, CVOR, inpatient surgical cases) strongly preferred.
• Risk adjustment experience preferred.
• Additional experience with HCC coding preferred.

Benefits

The total compensation target pay rate for this role is: $22.00 - $26.00/hr.

Pay

The total compensation target pay rate for this role is: $22.00 - $26.00/hr.

Schedule

The office is located at 1680 S Garfield Avenue, Alhambra, CA 91801. The position requires a hybrid work structure where the expectation is to work both in office and at home on a weekly basis.