Outpatient Coder

We need to output HTML fragment with sections: About the role (maybe intro paragraph), Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections that have real specific content. We must not repeat job title. Remove boilerplate like EEO, etc. Also need to preserve all substantive info. Let's parse the posting. First sentence: "Come lead with us at Corporate At Houston Methodist, the Outpatient Coder position is responsible for ensuring diagnostic and procedure codes are assigned accurately to outpatient, emergency room, therapy, and/or clinic encounters based upon documentation within the electronic medical record while maintaining compliance with established rules and regulatory guidelines." That's description of role. Could be About the role. Then "FLSA STATUS Non-exempt" - metadata, we can fold into short p. Then "QUALIFICATIONS" heading with details: Education, Experience, Licenses and Certifications. Then "SKILLS AND ABILITIES" heading with list. Then "ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS" with subheadings: PEOPLE, SERVICE, QUALITY/SAFETY, FINANCE, GROWTH/INNOVATION. Those are responsibilities. Then "SUPPLEMENTAL REQUIREMENTS" includes WORK ATTIRE, ON-CALL, TRAVEL. Then repeated "Required Must have one of the following:" list of certifications (duplicate). Then EEO statement. We need to produce sections: About the role (intro paragraph), Responsibilities (maybe combine essential functions), Requirements (maybe education/experience), Qualifications (maybe licenses/certifications), Skills (skills and abilities), Benefits (none?), Pay (none), Schedule (none). Since no explicit benefits, pay, schedule given, we should not create those sections. We need to include only sections with real specific content. Thus sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills. We need to use

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• for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. We must preserve all substantive info, not invent or summarize away detail. Let's extract content. About the role: The first sentence: "Come lead with us at Corporate At Houston Methodist, the Outpatient Coder position is responsible for ensuring diagnostic and procedure codes are assigned accurately to outpatient, emergency room, therapy, and/or clinic encounters based upon documentation within the electronic medical record while maintaining compliance with established rules and regulatory guidelines." We could keep that as paragraph. Responsibilities: The essential functions sections. We need to list duties. Could combine all essential functions bullet points. Let's extract each essential function bullet: PEOPLE ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS: - Interacts and communicates effectively with members of the coding team and the appropriate stakeholders. - Participates and provides good feedback during coding section meetings and coding education in-services as well as takes initiative to assist others and shares knowledge with the appropriate stakeholders. SERVICE ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS: - Responds promptly to internal and external customer requests. - Responds promptly and appropriately to requests to code or review coded accounts for accuracy. - Initiates queries with physicians to obtain or clarify diagnoses and/or procedures as appropriate, utilizing the established physician query process. QUALITY/SAFETY ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS: - Maintains and achieves departmental standards of coding quality by assigning accurate ICD-10-CM/ICD-10-PCS and CPT codes and APC assignment utilizing an electronic encoder application in accordance with hospital policy and regulatory body guidelines. - Maintains and achieves departmental standards of abstracting quality by reviewing the discharge disposition entered by nursing and corrects if necessary in order to achieve the highest quality of entered data. - Assigns and enters physician identification number and procedure date correctly in the medical record abstracting system. - Reviews medical record documentation and abstracts data into the encoder and Electronic Health Record (EHR) to determine principal or final diagnosis, co-morbid conditions and complications, secondary conditions and procedures. - Utilizes all tools/resources for accuracy. - Complies with the Standards of Ethical Coding as set forth by the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) and adheres to official guidelines. FINANCE ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS: - Utilizes time effectively. - Consistently codes and abstracts at departmental standards of productivity while ensuring accuracy of coding. - Supports meeting organizational goal for Accounts Receivables (AR) associated with uncoded accounts. - Maintains coding timeframes within established departmental standards by ensuring all work items assigned to the coding queues are processed in a timely manner. GROWTH/INNOVATION ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS: - Critically evaluates own performance, accepts constructive criticism, and looks for ways to improve. - Displays initiative to improve relative to job function. - Contributes ideas to help improve quality of coding data and abstracting data. We can list these as
  • items under Responsibilities. Requirements: Education and Experience maybe. From QUALIFICATIONS section: EDUCATION: Associate’s degree or higher in a Commission on Accreditation for Health Informatics and Information Management accredited program or additional two years of experience (in addition to the minimum experience requirements listed below) in lieu of degree EXPERIENCE: One year of relevant outpatient coding experience or completion of the Houston Methodist Coding Apprentice Program Thus Requirements could include Education and Experience. Qualifications: Licenses and Certifications list. List many certifications: RHIT, RHIA, CCS, CCA, CCS-P, CPC, CPC-H, CPC-I, CPC-A, CCC, COC. We need to preserve all. Skills: SKILLS AND ABILITIES list. Let's extract each bullet: - Demonstrates the skills and competencies necessary to safely perform the assigned job, determined through on-going skills, competency assessments, and performance evaluations - Sufficient proficiency in speaking, reading, and writing the English language necessary to perform the essential functions of this job, especially with regard to activities impacting patient or employee safety or security - Ability to effectively communicate with patients, physicians, family members and co-workers in a manner consistent with a customer service focus and application of positive language principles - Knowledge of coding classification systems, DRG and APC systems, official coding guidelines and coding compliance - Knowledge of an electronic medical record and imaging systems - Working knowledge of medical terminology, anatomy and physiology - Proficiency with electronic encoder application - Extensive PC knowledge - must be able to work effectively in common office software, coding software and abstracting systems We can list as
    • . Supplemental requirements: WORK ATTIRE, ON-CALL, TRAVEL. Could be included maybe as a separate section like "Additional Information" but not required headings. Since we only have predefined headings, we could incorporate into Requirements or maybe a separate section like "Other". But instructions: Use headings only for those listed; we can add other sections only if they have real content and we decide to use one of the allowed headings. There's no "Other" heading. So we could fold supplemental info into Requirements or maybe into Responsibilities? Probably better to add a short paragraph under Requirements or maybe under About the role. But we need to preserve all substantive info; we can include them in a

      after the list. We could add a section "Requirements" that includes Education, Experience, Licenses/Certifications, Supplemental Requirements (attire, on-call, travel). But we also have a separate Qualifications heading for licenses/certs. Might be redundant. Better: Use Requirements for Education+Experience, Qualifications for Licenses/Certs, Skills for Skills, Responsibilities for essential functions, and maybe add a short paragraph about supplemental requirements under Requirements or Qualifications? The instruction: "Use

      for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule)." So we can only use those headings. We need to decide where to put supplemental info. Could add to Requirements as additional bullet points (e.g., "Work attire: Uniform: No, Scrubs: Yes, Business professional: Yes, Other: No; On-call: may be required during emergencies; Travel: may require travel within and outside Houston Metropolitan area.") That seems reasonable. Thus Requirements section will have education, experience, and supplemental requirements. Qualifications section will have licenses/certs. Now we need to ensure we don't repeat the certification list twice (it appears twice in posting). We should include only once. Now produce HTML. Structure:

      About the role

      Come lead with us at Corporate At Houston Methodist, the Outpatient Coder position is responsible for ensuring diagnostic and procedure codes are assigned accurately to outpatient, emergency room, therapy, and/or clinic encounters based upon documentation within the electronic medical record while maintaining compliance with established rules and regulatory guidelines.

      Responsibilities

      • Interacts and communicates effectively with members of the coding team and the appropriate stakeholders.
      • Participates and provides good feedback during coding section meetings and coding education in-services as well as takes initiative to assist others and shares knowledge with the appropriate stakeholders.
      • Responds promptly to internal and external customer requests.
      • Responds promptly and appropriately to requests to code or review coded accounts for accuracy.
      • Initiates queries with physicians to obtain or clarify diagnoses and/or procedures as appropriate, utilizing the established physician query process.
      • Maintains and achieves departmental standards of coding quality by assigning accurate ICD-10-CM/ICD-10-PCS and CPT codes and APC assignment utilizing an electronic encoder application in accordance with hospital policy and regulatory body guidelines.
      • Maintains and achieves departmental standards of abstracting quality by reviewing the discharge disposition entered by nursing and corrects if necessary in order to achieve the highest quality of entered data.
      • Assigns and enters physician identification number and procedure date correctly in the medical record abstracting system.
      • Reviews medical record documentation and abstracts data into the encoder and Electronic Health Record (EHR) to determine principal or final diagnosis, co-morbid conditions and complications, secondary conditions and procedures.
      • Utilizes all tools/resources for accuracy.
      • Complies with the Standards of Ethical Coding as set forth by the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) and adheres to official guidelines.
      • Utilizes time effectively.
      • Consistently codes and abstracts at departmental standards of productivity while ensuring accuracy of coding.
      • Supports meeting organizational goal for Accounts Receivables (AR) associated with uncoded accounts.
      • Maintains coding timeframes within established departmental standards by ensuring all work items assigned to the coding queues are processed in a timely manner.
      • Critically evaluates own performance, accepts constructive criticism, and looks for ways to improve.
      • Displays initiative to improve relative to job function.
      • Contributes ideas to help improve quality of coding data and abstracting data.

      Requirements

      • Education: Associate’s degree or higher in a Commission on Accreditation for Health Informatics and Information Management accredited program or additional two years of experience (in addition to the minimum experience requirements listed below) in lieu of degree.
      • Experience: One year of relevant outpatient coding experience or completion of the Houston Methodist Coding Apprentice Program.
      • Work attire: Uniform: No, Scrubs: Yes, Business professional: Yes, Other (department approved): No.
      • On-call: May be required to be on-call during emergencies (e.g., Disaster, Severe Weather Events, etc.).
      • Travel: May require travel within the Houston Metropolitan area and/or outside the Houston Metropolitan area.

      Qualifications

      • RHIT - Certified Health Information Technician (AHIMA)
      • RHIA - Registered Health Information Administrator (AHIMA)
      • CCS - Certified Coding Specialist (AHIMA)
      • CCA – Certified Coding Associate (AHIMA)
      • CCS-P – Certified Coding Specialist Physician-Based