Risk Adjustment Coder
- Tampa, FL
- $21.00-22.00 per hour
- Contract
- Full-time
- Shifts: 7 AM - 3:30 PM EST
- Codes, abstracts, and analyzes inpatient and/or outpatient medical records using International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision (ICD-10). Always coding to the highest level of specificity.
- Code in multiple lines of business such as Marketplace (ACA) and Medicare Advantage
- Follows the Official ICD-10 guidelines for Coding and Reporting and has a complete understanding of these guidelines
- Follows CMS risk adjustment guidelines and has a complete understanding of these guidelines
- Understands the impact of ICD-10 codes on the CMS HCC risk adjustment model
- Ability to meet productivity and accuracy standard
- Ability to defend coding decisions to both internal and external audits
- Key skills; Minimum 2 years in Risk Adjustment production coding
- Certification: CPC
- Production Coding - 2 years
- MS Applications (Excel, MS, Outlook, Access, Teams) - Intermediate level
- CPC or CCS
- 2 years of medical coding experience, risk adjustment knowledge is preferred
- Tech savvy - Knowledge of computer basics. Comfortable utilizing Microsoft 365 (Word, Excel, Teams, Outlook)
- Ability to navigate through the ICD-10-CM codebook
- Codes, abstracts and analyzes inpatient and/or outpatient medical records using International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision (ICD-10). Always coding to the highest level of specificity.
- Follows the Official ICD-10 guidelines for Coding and Reporting and has a complete understanding of these guidelines.
- Ability to meet productivity and accuracy standards
- HS Diploma & Certification