Outpatient Coding Team Lead
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Outpatient Coding Team Lead
Job ID: REF40900G
Area of Interest: Information Technology
Location: Baltimore,MD US
Hours of Work: M-F
Job Facility: University Of Maryland Medical System Corporate Office
Employment Type: Full Time
Shift: Day
The University of Maryland Medical System (UMMS) is an academic private health system, focused on delivering compassionate, high quality care and putting discovery and innovation into practice at the bedside. Partnering with the University of Maryland School of Medicine, University of Maryland School of Nursing and University of Maryland, Baltimore who educate the state’s future health care professionals, UMMS is an integrated network of care, delivering 25 percent of all hospital care in urban, suburban and rural communities across the state of Maryland. UMMS puts academic medicine within reach through primary and specialty care delivered at 11 hospitals, including the flagship University of Maryland Medical Center, the System’s anchor institution in downtown Baltimore, as well as through a network of University of Maryland Urgent Care centers and more than 150 other locations in 13 counties. For more information, visit www.umms.org.
- Under direct supervision, the Outpatient Coding Team Lead, provides day to day supervision and instruction for the coders. The Inpatient Coding Team Lead oversees specific hospital outpatient accounts based on acuity for the purpose of appropriate reimbursement, research, statistics and compliance to federal and state regulations in accordance with established ICD-10-CM and CPT-4coding classification systems.
- The Outpatient Coding Team Lead assists in resolving interdepartmental coding inquiries and communicates with various departments within the hospitals regarding billing and registration issues.
- The Outpatient Coding Team Lead must have working knowledge of NCCI edits and medical necessity.
- Serves as a clinical coding subject matter expert, and utilizes critical thinking to analyze and evaluate documentation issues with consultation from Clinical staff, Clinical Documentation Specialists, and Coding Quality as needed.
- Provides coding support as needed for ICD-10 diagnostic codes and CPT-4 procedure codes to outpatient, ambulatory surgery, and observation visits for the purpose of reimbursement, research and compliance with federal and state regulations. Provides day to day instruction for the coders, which includes WQ monitoring, problem solving, monitoring productivity, scheduling, training, and enterprise testing.
- Provides backup coding support for outpatient coding as needed.
- Monitors coder’s assigned work on a daily basis in order to facilitate the billing process within the established timeframes.
- Communicates staffing shortages for associated workload.
- Monitors bill holds to maintain financial stability of organization.
- Associates degrees or total of 6 years’ experience.
- 4 years’ experience with coding outpatient hospital medical records.
- One of the following: Certified Coding Specialist (CCS), Certified Professional Coder (CPC).
- · Bachelor’s degree in related field
- Registered Health Information Technician (RHIT), Registered Health Information Administrator (RHIA).
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
Compensation:
Pay Range: $33.36-$46.7
Other Compensation (if applicable):
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