About this role
Position Summary:
Responsible for collecting, tracking and reconciling patient medical record information obtained from departments or nursing units once patient is discharged. Serves as an information resource by responding to requests for general and medical record information received via phone, e-mail, fax, or in person. Retrieves records per request for patient care, studies, committees, and other requests and works with other departments as needed.
Essential Functions and Responsibilities As Assigned:
1. Collects, tracks and reconciles patient medical record information obtained from departments or nursing units once patient is discharged.
2. Utilizing facility guidelines batches, preps, scans, quality checks and validates, records for document storage and/or imaging.
3. Assists with physician chart completion and suspension processes including assigning and validating chart deficiencies, communicating with Providers regarding their incomplete records and assisting with distribution of reports, letters and statistics related to delinquent medical records.
4. Escalates documentation holds to clinical and administrative personnel.
5. Tracks tasks/time spent as well as meets or exceeds quality and production targets.
6. Performs standardized chart audits following established guidelines/procedures.
7. Accesses EMR (electronic medical records) system to support record completion, coding, release of information and overall management and maintenance of the legal health record.
8. Performs EMPI tasks according to established policies, procedures, and timeframes.
9. Assists with patient portal enrollment.
10. Performs medical transcription tasks according to established policies, procedures, and timeframes.
Qualifications:
Required:
· High School diploma
· Two years HIM experience.
Preferred:
· RHIT Certified or eligible
· CRCR Certified
· Associate’s degree in HIM or other related health care field.
Equal Opportunity Employer of Minorities/Females/Disabled/Veterans
Other facts
About McLaren Health Care
McLaren Health Care, headquartered in Grand Blanc, Michigan, is a $7.3 billion, fully integrated health care delivery system committed to quality, evidence-based patient care and cost efficiency. The McLaren system includes 12 hospitals in Michigan, ambulatory surgery centers, imaging centers, a 640-member employed primary and specialty care physician network, commercial and Medicaid HMOs covering more than 732,838 lives in Michigan and Indiana, home health, infusion and hospice providers, pharmacy services, a clinical laboratory network and a wholly owned medical malpractice insurance company. McLaren operates Michigan’s largest network of cancer centers and providers, anchored by the Karmanos Cancer Institute, a National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive cancer centers. McLaren has 28,000 full-, part-time and contracted employees and more than 113,000 network providers throughout Michigan, Indiana and Ohio.
As part of its Graduate Medical Education (GME) program, McLaren maintains academic affiliations with medical schools at Wayne State University, Michigan State University and Central Medical University. McLaren’s seven (7) GME campuses offer 27 residencies and eight (8) fellowship programs that train over 650 future physicians annually. All GME programs at McLaren are overseen and managed centrally by the Department of Academic Affairs.
What you'll do
- The Health Information Management Technician Senior is responsible for collecting, tracking, and reconciling patient medical record information after discharge. They also assist with physician chart completion and ensure compliance with documentation standards.
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