Specialist Clinical Coding III

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Job Type:

Regular

Scheduled Hours:

30

💙 Why You’ll Love Working with St. Elizabeth Healthcare

At St. Elizabeth Healthcare, every role supports our mission to provide comprehensive and compassionate care to the communities we serve. For more than 160 years, St. Elizabeth Healthcare has been a trusted provider of quality care across Kentucky, Indiana, and Ohio. We’re guided by our mission to improve the health of the communities we serve and by our values of excellence, integrity, compassion, and teamwork. Our associates are the heart of everything we do. 

 

🌟 Benefits That Support You

We invest in you — personally and professionally.

Enjoy:
- Competitive pay and comprehensive health coverage within the first 30 days.
- Generous paid time off and flexible work schedules
- Retirement savings with employer match
- Tuition reimbursement and professional development opportunities
- Wellness, mental health, and recognition programs
- Career advancement through mentorship and internal mobility

Job Summary:

Processes medical records by coding, abstracting data and producing information for third party billing and to provide a complete statistical data base.

Demonstrate respect, dignity, kindness and empathy in each encounter with all patients, families, visitors and other employees regardless of cultural background.

Job Description:

Reviews inpatient or observation, same day surgery, and interventional procedure records, identifies and codes principal and secondary diagnoses and principal and secondary procedures in appropriate sequence so that the accurate DRG/APC will be assigned according to Official Coding Guidelines to provide information for billing purposes.  Meets department coding standards for quality and productivity of 96%.  New staff are expected to meet these standards upon completion of the training period.

Assigns all codes based on documentation.  Participates in corporate compliance program.  Upholds the highest ethical standards.

Abstracts demographic and medical information into abstracting software following departmental guidelines to provide for accurate database for statistical reference.

Completes various reports such as productivity reports, statistical reports and log sheets in order to maintain an accurate source of reference material and other documentation.  Performs daily or weekly follow-up of all dates assigned and submits updates accordingly.

Communicates with Corporate Coding Manager, Coding Team Leader, CDI Specialists, Patient Accounts staff and fellow coders in a professional manner as needed regarding held accounts, coding changes, physician queries, rebills, etc.

Attends educational programs and applies knowledge to enhance job performance.  Uses resources available for accurate coding (i.e. Coding Clinic and CPT Assistant).

Performs other duties as assigned.

Education, Credentials, Licenses:

• Associate or Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent hospital based coding experience.
• CCS, CIC or COC credentials
• Physician coding credentials CCS-P and CPC are not preferred but recognized for coding other than inpatient.
• An apprentice credential is not sufficient.

Specialized Knowledge: 

• Medical Terminology, Anatomy and Physiology, ICD/CPT experience, Prospective Payment Systems, Outpatient Medical Necessity, use of personal computer.

Kind and Length of Experience: 

• Five years hospital coding experience.
• Proven verbal and written communication skills

FLSA Status:

Non-Exempt

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