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Job Type:
RegularScheduled Hours:
30
💙 Why You’ll Love Working with St. Elizabeth Healthcare
At St. Elizabeth Healthcare, every role supports our mission to provide comprehensive and compassionate care to the communities we serve. For more than 160 years, St. Elizabeth Healthcare has been a trusted provider of quality care across Kentucky, Indiana, and Ohio. We’re guided by our mission to improve the health of the communities we serve and by our values of excellence, integrity, compassion, and teamwork. Our associates are the heart of everything we do.
🌟 Benefits That Support You
We invest in you — personally and professionally.
Enjoy:
- Competitive pay and comprehensive health coverage within the first 30 days.
- Generous paid time off and flexible work schedules
- Retirement savings with employer match
- Tuition reimbursement and professional development opportunities
- Wellness, mental health, and recognition programs
- Career advancement through mentorship and internal mobility
Job Summary:
This position processes medical records by coding, abstracting data, and producing information for third party billing and to provide a complete statistical database.Demonstrate respect, dignity, kindness and empathy in each encounter with all patients, families, visitors and other employees regardless of cultural background.
Job Description:
Reviews inpatient or observation, same day surgery, and interventional procedure records or emergency department or complex ancillary records. Identifies and codes principal and secondary diagnoses and principal and secondary procedures in appropriate sequence so that the accurate DRG/APC will be assigned according to Official Coding Guidelines to provide information for billing purposes. Meets department coding standards for quality and productivity of 96%. (New staff are expected to meet these standards upon completion of the training period).
Assigns all codes based on documentation. Participates in corporate compliance program. Upholds the highest ethical standards.
Abstracts demographic and medical information into computer system following departmental guidelines to provide an accurate data base for statistical reference.
Communicates with Corporate Coding Manager, Coding Team Leader, CDI Specialists, Patient Accounts staff and fellow coders in a professional manner as needed regarding held accounts, coding changes, coding questions, physician queries, rebills, etc.
Completes various reports such as productivity reports, statistical reports and log sheets in order to maintain an accurate source of reference material and other documentation. Performs daily or weekly follow-up of all dates assigned and submits updates accordingly.
Attends educational programs and applies knowledge to enhance job performance. Uses resources available for accurate coding (i.e., Coding Clinic and CPT Assistant).
Performs other duties as assigned.
Education, Credentials, Licenses:
- Associate or Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent hospital based coding experience)
- CCS, CIC or COC, credentials
- Physician coding credentials of CCS-P and CPC are not preferred but recognized for coding other than inpatient.
- An apprentice credential is not sufficient
Specialized Knowledge:
- Medical Terminology, Anatomy and Physiology
- ICD/CPT experience Prospective Payment Systems, Outpatient Medical Necessity.
- Use of personal computer
Kind and Length of Experience:
- Two to Four years hospital coding experience
FLSA Status:
Non-ExemptRight Career. Right Here. If you're looking for the right careers in healthcare, the right place to be is at St. Elizabeth. Join us, and you'll take pride in the level of care we offer our community.
Other facts
About St. Elizabeth Healthcare
St. Elizabeth Healthcare is one of the oldest, largest and most respected medical providers in the Greater Cincinnati region. For more than 150 years, St. Elizabeth has been the heart and soul of healthcare in Northern Kentucky. Founded with one small hospital in 1861, St. Elizabeth Healthcare now operates six facilities throughout Northern Kentucky and Southeast Indiana – St. Elizabeth Covington, St. Elizabeth Edgewood, St. Elizabeth Florence, St. Elizabeth Ft. Thomas, St. Elizabeth Grant and St. Elizabeth Dearborn. St. Elizabeth also has vast resources to serve the Greater Cincinnati area, including almost 1,200 licensed beds; a physician organization, which includes more than 100 primary care and specialty office locations; 1,200 physicians with admitting privileges; nearly 8,500 associates; more than 1,200 volunteers; and three freestanding imaging centers and two ambulatory surgery centers.
Our mission is to provide comprehensive and compassionate care that improves the health of the people we serve. We accomplish this through state-of the-art technology and nearly 8,500 associates, led by a well-respected board and executive leadership team who love this organization and our community.
What you'll do
- The Specialist Clinical Coding II processes medical records by coding and abstracting data for billing and statistical purposes. They must meet coding standards for quality and productivity while maintaining ethical standards and effective communication with team members.
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