Wound Care - Professional Fee Coder

Position Title

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Requirements

Key Success Attributes

Core Competencies

• Assigns appropriate ICD-10-CM, E/M, CPT, HCPCS codes and modifiers to professional fee accounts as per designated workflow
• Abstracts and enters coded data and/or charges for physician statistical and reporting requirements
• May assign/validate professional fee level of service based upon either 95 or 97 Evaluation and Management Guidelines
• Queries physicians to clarify conflicting, imprecise, incomplete, ambiguous, and/or inconsistent clinical information when appropriate
• Communicates documentation improvement opportunities and coding issues to appropriate personnel for follow up and resolution
• Communicates with Clinical Documentation Improvement and/or Revenue Cycle teams for follow up and reconciliation of accounts
• Maintains required productivity and quality requirements
• Maintains coding credential requirements

Required Qualifications:

• Candidate must possess an approved AHIMA or AAPC coding credential
• Minimum 3 years’ coding experience required
• At least 2 years of Wound Care coding experience is required

Key Success Attributes:

• Integrity, passion, and ethics are required
• Demonstrates strong collaboration skills
• Has strong analytic and problem-solving abilities and techniques
• Exhibit consistent initiative with strong drive for results and success
• Exhibit commitment to a team environment
• Exhibit excellent interpersonal skills
• Well-developed written, verbal, and presentation communication skills including deep listening and attention to detail
• Possess strong time management and organizational skills
• Commitment and adherence to company Core Values

Core Competencies:

• High level of integrity & ethical judgement
• Communication
• Consistency and Reliability
• Meeting Standards