Job Description
Company Description
Sutherland is seeking an attentive and goal-oriented person to join us as Back Office Analyst We are a group of driven and hard-working individuals. If you are looking to build a fulfilling career and are confident you have the skills and experience to help us succeed, we want to work with you!
Job Description
- Identifies and codes Inpatient records for the purpose of reimbursement, and compliance with federal regulations according to diagnosis and procedure using 1CD-9-CM and CPT-4 coding systems.
- Assigns the correct principal diagnosis, comorbidities, and complications (CCs), secondary diagnoses, POA (Present on Admission) indicators, HAC (Hospital-Acquired Conditions), principal procedure codes, and secondary procedure codes according to official coding guidelines, the Coding Clinic, and in accordance with all official Uniform Hospital Discharge Data Set (UHDDS) definitions.
- Perform coding (applying the correct ICD-10-CM and CPT codes) of patient accounts.
- Collect and abstract all clinical and statistical information as required.
- Reviewing all patient files for accuracy
- Codes and abstracts all necessary information, describes each documented diagnosis and procedures according to established HIM guidelines and AHIMA code of ethics.
- Assists in implementing solutions to reduce back-end billing errors.
- Abstracts data elements to satisfy statistical requests by the hospital, health system, medical staff, and enters all coded/abstracted information into the hospital information system.
Qualifications
Any Qualification
Additional Information
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
