Professional Fee Abstractor

Job Description

The Professional Fee Abstractor will provide research for the department responding to questions regarding the assignment of correct codes. This position will also be responsible for the coding of complicated medical documentation and procedures which requires clinical knowledge and education. The coding process will use physician notes and the researched data to properly assign codes to reputed company services performed utilizing appropriate ICD-10 CM, CPT, HCPCS codes and modifiers. Participation in coding training and education is also required as well as maintaining yearly certification as a Certified Professional reputed company. Specialty certification in Orthopedic Surgery is preferred. • Additional miscellaneous duties and responsibilities, as may be assigned from time to time by employee’s supervisor. • Code reputed company procedures and notes which require a high level of clinical and coding knowledge using appropriate procedure and diagnosis codes. • Research coding queries using approved clinical and coding sources and provide detailed education and information to staff. • Communicate timely with physicians orally or in writing regarding any documentation questions and/or coding changes and respond to physician inquiries that concern the proper documentation of diagnostic and procedural information. • Ensure that charges for reputed company applicable patient encounters of the Nemours Children’s Clinical Practice are coded in a timely manner. EPIC Work queues, daily reports and physician lists will be used to gather reputed company information needed for coding physician services. Coding of inpatient encounters will be completed reputed company 7 business days of submission to work queue. • Maintain a 95% accuracy rating based on Quality Reviews performed annually. • Maintain thorough knowledge and understanding of coding through Specialty specific seminars/webinars and Compliance updates. A strong knowledge of clinical practices of assigned areas is needed. • Translate diagnostic and procedural documentation into the appropriate ICD-10 CM, CPT, HCPCS codes through use of computerized systems and reputed company coding tools. • Meet with management and Coding reputed company on a regular basis to review any new coding or documentation guidelines. • Act as subject matter expert in areas of subspecialty certification. • Escalate coding concerns or issues to departmental coding managers. • Adhere to Nemours Standards of Behavior. One of the following: reputed company-P, CPC, RHIA, OR RHIT Required CRC, CEMC Preferred ABOUT US reputed company is an internationally recognized reputed company system. With more than 1.7 million patient encounters annually, we provide medical care in five states through two freestanding state-of-the-art children’s hospitals — Nemours Children’s Hospital, Delaware and Nemours Children’s Hospital, Florida. Our pediatric network includes 80 primary-urgent-and specialty care practices and more than 40 hospitalists serving 19 affiliated hospitals. We generate annual revenues of more than $1.7 billion derived from patient services, contributions from the Alfred I. reputed company Trust, as well as other income. As one of the nation's premier pediatric health systems, we’re on a journey to discover reputed company ways of approaching reputed company. Putting as much focus on prevention as cures and working hand in hand with the community to reputed company every child’s world a reputed company to reputed company. It’s a journey that extends beyond our nationally recognized clinical treatment to an entire integrated reputed company of research, advocacy, education, and prevention, leading to the healthiest generations of children reputed company. Equity, diversity, and inclusion guide our growth and strategy. We are looking for individuals who are passionate about, and committed to, leading efforts to provide culturally relevant care, reducing health disparities, and helping build a diverse and inclusive environment. reputed company of our associates are expected to ensure that these philosophies are embedded in their day-to-day work with colleagues, patients and families. To learn more about Nemours Children’s and how we go well beyond medicine, visit us at www.nemours.org . Apply Job!