Average Salary for Jobs with Medical Coding Skills

Conducts medical record audits in hospitals, clinics, physicians' offices, and other patient care facilities to ensure that documentation meets required standards and regulations. Maintains up-to-date information on all the standards set by the Joint Commission, Medicare, Medicaid, and other entities relating to medical records. Reviews patient accounts for coding accuracy and completeness. Prepar... View job details

Audits medical records to verify coding of ICD or CPT codes following industry-standard coding guidelines. Documents audit findings with details on appropriate coding guideline references and error rates. Maintains up-to-date knowledge of coding and documentation requirements and offers guidance and interpretation. Reviews insurance payment and billing denial data to identify and recommend coding ... View job details

Supervises and trains a team of medical coders to ensure medical records are coded with accuracy and completeness. Ensures medical records coding operations follow the latest guidelines and compliance standards. Maintains required documentation and confidentiality of patient records. Implements processes for coding operations that support the needs of other healthcare partners. Develops and mainta... View job details

Researches and develops the pre-certification insurance policy standards and criteria used by case management and utilization reviewers that will ensure that requested medical services are appropriate and medically necessary. Collaborates with medical professionals to resolve questions about policy development and standards. Assigns correct ICD, CPT, or other coding assignments for medical procedu... View job details

Abstracts clinical information from medical records and assigns the appropriate ICD or CPT codes using industry-standard coding guidelines. Assigns required DRG (diagnosis-related grouping) codes. Works with coding databases and software to input and maintain data according to standard procedures. Performs quality audits of work. Maintains and up-to-date knowledge of coding and documentation requi... View job details