Employer: Essentia Health
Job Description:
- Evaluates health record documentation and charges to optimize reimbursement by ensuring that diagnostic and procedural codes and other documentation accurately reflect and support the outpatient visit.
- Ensures that data complies with regulatory and coding guidelines.
- Reviews medical information, such as diseases or symptoms and diagnostic descriptions and procedures for a given visit, to accurately assign and sequence the correct ICD-10 CM, HCPCS and CPT codes.
- Adheres to the quality and productivity standards set by the department.
Education Qualifications:
Successful completion or currently enrolled in a medical coding program which includes completed course work inICD-10-CM, HCPCS, CPT codes, medical terminology, anatomy and physiology and disease process AND a passing score on the ESSENTIA HEALTH coding skills assessment test.
OR Credentialed as, or eligible for, Certified Coding Specialist (CCS), Certified Coding Specialist-Physician Based (CCS-P), Certified Professional Coder (CPC), Registered Health Information Administrator (RHIA) OR Registered Health Information Technician (RHIT) AND a passing score on the ESSENTIA HEALTH coding skills assessment test.
Licensure/Certification Qualifications:
Applicable credentialing required within 2 years of employment/date of hire
Location: Fargo, ND, Detroit Lakes, MN, Brainerd, MN