Clinical Coding Analyst RN, Consultant
Your Role
The Facility Compliance Review (FCR) team reviews post service prepayment facility claims for contract compliance, industry billing standards, medical necessity and hospital acquired conditions/never events. The Clinical Coding Analyst RN, Consultant will report to the Senior Manager, Facility Compliance Review. In this role you will be supporting the FCR team in addition to a small clinical coder team of clinical coders who will be responsible for performing in-depth quality audits of hospital claims to support ICD--CM and ICD- PCS codes as well as EDC (Emergency Department Coding), MS-DRG and APR-DRG reviews based on clinical determination. Reviews will also be performed for medical necessity and to meet the criteria for the coding billed. You will also be responsible for reviewing outpatient coding for appropriateness of billing related to injection and infusions. This person will review medical records and perform coding analysis on all diagnoses, procedures, DRG/APC and charge codes. Ensure that the billed coding is appropriate based on reimbursement requirements, research, epidemiology, financial and strategic planning and evaluation of quality of care. In this role you will be working in a Lead capacity assisting with reviewing claims, training new hires, facilitating refresher trainings for the team as needed, and being a resource for the team to ask questions. The ideal candidate will have previous leadership experience and hold at least a CPC or CCS certification from AHIMA or AAPC, and higher-level certifications are highly desirable.
Our leadership model is about developing great leaders at all levels and creating opportunities for our people to grow – personally, professionally, and financially. We are looking for leaders that are energized by creative and critical thinking, building and sustaining high-performing teams, getting results the right way, and fostering continuous learning.
We are a CA based company and training hours for the first few months will be am-pm PST. After that, this person can work am-pm, am-pm or am-pm PST.