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Certified Medical Coder
Ascension
United States
Full-time
2 days ago
CCS Certified Coder
Description
Responsibilities
Qualifications
Licensure / Certification / Registration
- Location: Remote | Tulsa, OK
- Facility: AMG South Harvard
- Department: Revenue Cycle Patient Accounting
- Schedule: Full-time | Day shift
Responsibilities
- Advanced Medical Coding: Abstracted critical clinical documentation from patient records to accurately assign complex ICD-10-CM/PCS, CPT, and HCPCS codes for optimal APC and DRG classifications.
- Physician Collaboration & Clarification: Audited clinical charts and initiated proactive physician queries to resolve documentation ambiguities, ensuring data integrity and strict compliance with official coding guidelines.
- Quality & Productivity Excellence: Consistently met and exceeded rigorous departmental productivity and quality benchmarks while strictly adhering to AHIMA Standards of Ethical Coding.
- Regulatory Compliance & Education: Maintained expert up-to-date knowledge of evolving reimbursement reporting requirements and provided targeted coding education to physicians and associates.
Qualifications
Licensure / Certification / Registration
- Required Credential(s):
- One or more of the following:
- Certified Coding Specialist (CCS) credentialed from the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) obtained prior to hire date or job transfer date.
- Certified Professional Coder (CPC) credentialed from the American Academy of Professional Coders (AAPC) obtained prior to hire date or job transfer date.
- Coder obtained prior to hire date or job transfer date.
- Reg Health Info Admnstr credentialed from the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) obtained prior to hire date or job transfer date.
- Reg Health Info Tech credentialed from the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) obtained prior to hire date or job transfer date.
- One or more of the following:
- High School diploma equivalency OR 1 year of applicable cumulative job specific experience required. *Note: Required professional licensure/certification can be used in lieu of education or experience, if applicable.