
Billing Coder - Remote
- Vista, CA
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Perform daily coding and reviews, and provide coding guidance to provider staff
- Responsible for ensuring diagnosis and procedures are coded accurately and in a timely manner
- Communicate clearly and effectively with all levels of billing and operations staff
- Responsible for developing training materials for the coding process
- Responsible for developing audit tools and reports
- Responsible for auditing coding organization-wide
- Provider coding education to provider staff, individually & in group settings
- Provide proactive identification of simplification/automation opportunities
- Utilize metrics to improve performance
- Proactively manage and ensure compliance with control objectives
- Support internal and external audits
- Assist director in writing/establishing operating procedures to meet coding regulations/compliance and follow-up enhancement
- High school graduate or equivalent
- CPC Certification
- Minimum three years' coding experience
- Currently working in healthcare field
- Experience working with clinicians and training them on coding and documentation
- HCC coding experience
- Bachelor's Degree
- Two years' experience in an FQHC environment
- Experience with NextGen
- Coding compliance program implementation experience
- Familiar with medical terminology
- Knowledge of payer coding policies and guidelines
- Proficient with MS Office and data entry skills
- Ability to perform a high volume of detail work with speed and accuracy
- Ability to communicate initiatives, results and analyses, to multiple levels
- $26.00 - $34.00 DOE