What are the responsibilities and job description for the Coder IV position at St Rose Dominican - San Martin?
Overview
As the community’s only not-for-profit, faith-based health care system, Dignity Health Nevada has been guided by the vision and core values of the Adrian Dominican Sisters for more than 70 years. As the Henderson and Las Vegas communities grow, Dignity Health-St. Rose Dominican facilities and its more than 3,400 employees will continue the Sisters’ mission of serving people in need. St. Rose Dominican is a member Dignity Health, one of the nation’s largest health care systems, a 22-state network of more than 9,000 physicians, 60,000 employees, and 400 care centers, including hospitals, urgent and occupational care, imaging and surgery centers, home health, and primary care clinics. Headquartered in San Francisco, Dignity Health is dedicated to providing compassionate, high-quality, and affordable patient-centered care with special attention to the poor and underserved. You can also follow us on Twitter and Facebook.
Responsibilities
Job Summary:
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications:
As the community’s only not-for-profit, faith-based health care system, Dignity Health Nevada has been guided by the vision and core values of the Adrian Dominican Sisters for more than 70 years. As the Henderson and Las Vegas communities grow, Dignity Health-St. Rose Dominican facilities and its more than 3,400 employees will continue the Sisters’ mission of serving people in need. St. Rose Dominican is a member Dignity Health, one of the nation’s largest health care systems, a 22-state network of more than 9,000 physicians, 60,000 employees, and 400 care centers, including hospitals, urgent and occupational care, imaging and surgery centers, home health, and primary care clinics. Headquartered in San Francisco, Dignity Health is dedicated to providing compassionate, high-quality, and affordable patient-centered care with special attention to the poor and underserved. You can also follow us on Twitter and Facebook.
Responsibilities
Job Summary:
Coder 4 is a member of the Health Information Management Team (HIM) responsible for ensuring the accuracy and completeness of clinical coding, validating the information in the databases for outcome management and specialty registries, across the entire integrated healthcare system.
- The purpose of this position is to apply the appropriate diagnostic and procedural codes to individual patient health information records for data retrieval, analysis and claims processing.
- This position is expected to perform duties in alignment with the mission and policies within the Dignity Health organization, TJC, CMS and other regulatory agencies.
- Analytical / Critical thinking and problem solving.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to present ideas and concepts effectively across organizational levels.
- Working knowledge of functional relationships between departments within healthcare or similar environment.
- This position is represented by SEIU, Local 1107 and is covered by the terms and conditions of the applicable collective bargaining agreement.
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications:
- Knowledge and application of ICD-10-CM, ICD-10-PCS, HCPCS and CPT-4 classification systems.
- Knowledge of information privacy laws, access, release of information and release control technologies. Knowledge of hospital protocols and procedures.
- Knowledge of TJC, HIPPA, HCFA, Title 22, security principles, guidelines and standard healthcare practices. Demonstrated competence with personal computers, networks and Microsoft Office (including MS Word) and EMR systems. Must have the ability to pass a coding technical assessment.
- Three years of relevant coding and abstracting experience or equivalent combination of education and experience required in an acute care hospital setting.
- Minimum of 3 years of Inpatient medical coding experience (hospital, facility, etc.).
- Must have ICD-10 coding experience.
- Must have experience with DRG coding.
- (One year of experience will be waived for those who have attended the Dignity Health Coding Apprenticeship Program.)
- High school diploma or equivalent.
- Have and maintain a current coding credential from AHIMA or AAPC (RHIA, RHIT, CCS, CCS-P, CPC or CPC-H).
Preferred Qualifications:
- Three years of relevant coding and abstracting experience or equivalent combination of education and experience required in an acute care hospital setting.
- Minimum of 3 years of Inpatient medical coding experience (hospital, facility, etc.)
- Must have ICD-10 coding experience Must have experience with DRG coding.
- Intermediate level of Microsoft Excel.
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