About this role
Job Description
The Opportunity:
Review medical record documentation of lower acuity inpatients to assign appropriate ICD-10-CM, ICD-10-PCS, and DRG codes for billing, internal and external reporting, research, and regulatory compliance. Ability to determine first listed diagnosis, secondary diagnoses, and surgical procedures. Analyze documentation and abstract pertinent data. Must maintain minimum quality and productivity standards.
Preferred Certification for role include: CCS
Responsibilities:
Code procedures and diagnoses for inpatient accounts
Assign present on admission indicators to diagnoses
Query clinical providers when appropriate
Abstract pertinent data
Meet quality standards
Meet productivity standards
Communicate with CDI team
Telecommute
The Shifts:
40 hours per week
8:00 AM to 5:00 PM core hours
Why Saint Luke’s?
Evening and Weekend Shift Differential
Saint Luke’s offers competitive salaries and benefits packages to all eligible employees, click here to find out more.
We believe in creating a collaborative environment where all voices are heard.
We are here for you and will support you in achieving your goals.
We are dedicated to innovation and always looking for ways to improve.
Benefits:
Health, Vision and Dental
Leave of Absence, PTO, , and various Welfare plans
Flex and Health Savings Accounts
Tuition and Education Reimbursement
Various other voluntary benefits available
Retirement options
Clinical Advancement Program – Shared Governance, Unit Based Project, Career Advancement
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Job Requirements
Applicable Experience:
Less than 1 yearCert Coding Specialist - American Health Information Management AssociationNoneJob Details
Full TimeDay (United States of America)The best place to get care. The best place to give care. Saint Luke’s 12,000 employees strive toward that vision every day. Our employees are proud to work for the only faith-based, nonprofit, locally owned health system in Kansas City. Joining Saint Luke’s means joining a team of exceptional professionals who strive for excellence in patient care. Do the best work of your career within a highly diverse and inclusive workspace where all voices matter.
Join the Kansas City region's premiere provider of health services. Equal Opportunity Employer.
Other facts
About Saint Luke's Health System
About Saint Luke’s Health System
Saint Luke’s serves the West Region of BJC Health System as a faith-based, nonprofit, aligned health system committed to providing the highest levels of excellence in compassionate health care and health-related services. Saint Luke’s cares for patients in 65 specialty services across 67 counties in Missouri and Kansas. Saint Luke’s Hospital has been recognized by U.S. News & World Report as one of the elite hospitals in the nation. For more than 140 years, Saint Luke’s has been dedicated to enhancing the physical, mental, and spiritual health of the diverse communities we serve.
Saint Luke’s offers:
- The region’s longest continuously operating adult heart transplant program and one of the nation’s leading cardiovascular programs at Saint Luke's Mid America Heart Institute
- Treatment for complex brain and spinal cord diseases and one of the nation’s leading stroke reversal programs at the nationally ranked Saint Luke’s Marion Bloch Neuroscience Institute
- The region’s only treatment center dedicated exclusively to treating metastatic breast cancer—the Koontz Center for Advanced Breast Cancer at Saint Luke’s Cancer Institute
- Saint Luke’s Convenient and Urgent Care clinics for treatment of minor illnesses and injuries
- Liver and kidney transplantation programs
- A comprehensive maternal-fetal diagnostic and treatment center
- Three Neonatal Intensive Care Units, including a Level IIIb NICU at Saint Luke’s Hospital of Kansas City
- Saint Luke’s Rehabilitation Institute, the only comprehensive inpatient rehabilitation hospital of its kind in the region
- A nationally recognized children's behavioral health center, Saint Luke’s Hospital Crittenton Children’s Center
What you'll do
- The coder will review medical records of lower acuity inpatients to assign appropriate coding for billing and compliance. Responsibilities include coding procedures and diagnoses, assigning indicators, querying providers, and abstracting data.
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