Surgery Coder 3 (Coding Specialist 3)

Coding:

• Coding at 95% or above accuracy.
• Abstract information from patient medical records to assign correct codes and charges to outpatient surgical records, and/or observation cases.
• Work assigned charge sessions in assigned EPIC charge router work queues.

Department Support:

• Serve as a resource to ERC outpatient coding leadership and coding team for a broad range of billing policy and procedure issues.
• Develop and disseminate written procedures to facilitate and improve billing and coding processes for the department, and to train, support and mentor and orientate coding staff as necessary.
• Monitor coding and billing information from CMS guidelines, Professional licensing organizations, Internal communication memos, and transmittals from coding publishers and governmental agencies.

Other:

• Attends coding meetings and seminars and shares knowledge with other coders.
• In collaboration with Enterprise Coding Leadership, develop and disseminate written procedures to facilitate and improve billing and documentation processes.
• Other duties as assigned.