Coding Specialist

Description:

This company is the largest independent, locally owned and operated Emergency Medical Service provider in Northern Illinois and Northwest Indiana. They provide wheelchair transportation, Basic Life Support, Advanced Life Support, and Critical Care Ground Transportation; as well as Critical Care Rotary Air Transportation. Much of our proven success is attributable to the exceptional, compassionate customer service provided by our employees.

We are currently looking for a Medical Coder for our Billing Department. Below lists the duties, responsibilities and the qualifications needed for this position. We will train the right individual.

Duties & Responsibilities:

1. Reviews patient care report thoroughly, utilizing all available documentation in order to establish medical necessity, selection of levels of service, origin/destination modifiers and the patient’s condition at time of transport.

2. Keeps an open line of communication with internal and external departments in a professional, tactful manner in order to obtain missing documentation or to clarify existing unclear documentation.

3. Refers patient care reports to the Processing Manager for any coding or documentation questions.

4. Communicates with other departments as needed for, problem resolution, clarification, etc.

5. Assigns condition codes for the reason(s) for the trip with a minimum of 95% accuracy.

6. Meets established minimum coding productivity standards.

7. Monitors work and adjusts specific daily duties appropriately to ensure that all records are coded timely and accurately.

8. Reports productivity on a daily basis to processing manager, following established guidelines.

9. Utilizes e-mail, Excel and Word documents, personal and department files/documents as needed to complete work assignments.

10. Attends department meetings and education sessions to further knowledge of medical terminology and coding guidelines, etc.as well as for clarification of specific job duties.

Hours:

Flex start time once trained 5am -9am work 8 hours or work 9 hours 4 days and work 4 hours friday ** after Training and can be taken away

Skills & Qualifications:

• Insurance verification in a production based enviroment (8+ claims per hour). Working directly with medicaid,medicare, and commercial insurances
• Phone experience speaking with Insurance companies and Doctors/nurses
• Medical terminology specifically in billing and coding

Plus haves:

- Medical billing and coding cert

- ICD-10 CPC code knowledge

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The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regards to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.