Medical & Billing Coder - New Mexico
Sane Street
- New Mexico
- Contract
- Full-time
- Evaluates the appropriateness of codes and determine whether they meet all established program standards.
- Ensures that the medical records are matched appropriately to the codes and if not, obtains them.
- Read & apply policy guidelines and healthcare terminology and delineate when criteria are/are not met.
- Evaluates claims for conflict of interest and criteria appropriateness.
- Works within established timeframes set by program parameters.
- Provides strong customer service skills and works closely with clients on a case- by-case basis to provide complete, timely, and error-free quality assurance of cases.
- Provides clinical oversight to cases that are complex and need additional review prior to return to the client.
- Serves as an additional level of QA and clinical knowledge/review for cases with quality Issues.
- Must have a CPC, APCC, or DRG coder certification
- Payment integrity or professional bill review experience is strongly preferred.
- Out-of-network bill review experience is a plus.
- Experience working in a remote environment is preferred.
- Experience in a medical office or health care background.
- CPC, CCS, or CCA certification is preferred, but not required
- Experience is a must
- Must have access to your own billing references/engine
- Deposition/Testimony experience is preferred, but not required
- Extensive knowledge of New Mexico billing resources- for example: (New Mexico Workers' Compensation VA Fee Schedules CMS Medicare/Medicaid FairHealth, PIMC, CCI, or other benchmark-based schedules)
- Coding counter-audit experience is a plus