Coding Educator Specialist - Remote - Radiology IVR E/M

Description

POSITION SUMMARY

The Coding Educator is responsible for creating, designing, and delivering coding education to coders, coding coordinators, coding auditors, and coding leadership. Assists the coding department with coding questions, reviews, or inquiries.

DESCRIPTION OF RESPONSIBILITIES

• Creates, designs, and performs coding education on at least two coding topics per month. Plans, organizes, provides and evaluates coding education. Creates and delivers monthly coding newsletter.
• Reviews coding quality reports for coding error trends and creates education based on topics that are trending for errors
• Assists coding manager and coding department with coder questions and coding inquiries.
• Attends Tenet coding educations and maintains coding credentials.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, ABILITIES

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The list below is representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Required:

• 3-5 years acute hospital coding educator experience
• Skilled and advanced working knowledge of MS Office suite; ability to design professional coding education
• Experience with delivering coding education via webinars
• Excellent communication and organizational skills.
• Ability to analyze coding related reports, trend data, and take action

Preferred:

• 5 plus years’ coding educator experience in a large, complex, multi-system acute care hospital organization

EDUCATION / EXPERIENCE

Include minimum education, technical training, and/or experience for the job.

Required:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Health Information Management
• For PRCM:
• Associate’s Degree is acceptable

Preferred:

• Master’s Degree in Health Information Management

REQUIRED CERTIFICATIONS/LICENSURE

Include minimum certification required to perform the job.

Required:

• RHIA or CCS
• Preferred:
• RHIA and CCS

For PRCM:

• AHIMA or AAPC Coding Credentials are acceptable

SUBORDINATES

• Number of employees directly reporting for this position: 0
• Number of employees indirectly reporting for this position: 0

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Be in a stationaryposition approximately 50% of the time, use computer and answer telephone
• Occasionally moves through hospital-based departments across broad campus settings, including Emergency Department environments

TRAVEL

• 10% of the time

As a part of the Tenet and Catholic Health Initiatives family, Conifer Health brings 30 years of healthcare industry expertise to clients in more than 135 local regions nationwide. We help our clients strengthen their financial and clinical performance, serve their communities and succeed at the business of healthcare. Conifer Health helps organizations transition from volume to value-based care, enhance the consumer and patient healthcare experience and improve quality, cost and access to healthcare. Are you ready to be part of our solutions? Welcome to the company that gives you the resources and incentives to redefine healthcare services, with a competitive benefits package and leadership to take your career to the next step!

Compensation and Benefit Information

Compensation

• Pay: $72,509.00 - $108,763.00 annually. Compensation depends on location, qualifications, and experience.
• Management level positions may be eligible for sign-on and relocation bonuses.

Benefits

Conifer offers the following benefits, subject to employment status:

• Medical, dental, vision, disability, life, and business travel insurance
• Paid time off (vacation & sick leave) – min of 12 days per year, accrued accrue at a rate of approximately 1.84 hours per 40 hours worked.
• 401k with up to 6% employer match
• 10 paid holidays per year
• Health savings accounts, healthcare & dependent flexible spending accounts
• Employee Assistance program, Employee discount program
• Voluntary benefits include pet insurance, legal insurance, accident and critical illness insurance, long term care, elder & childcare, AD&D, auto & home insurance.
• For Colorado employees, Conifer offers paid leave in accordance with Colorado’s Healthy Families and Workplaces Act.