What are the responsibilities and job description for the Data Abstractor for Abrazo Medical Group position at Abrazo Medical Group (VHS Outpatient Clinics, Inc)?
Description:
General Summary: Supports clinical performance through abstraction, review, and reporting of medical record clinical documentation and billing assessment, to support initiatives related to quality improvement, accreditation, and regulatory requirements.
Essential Job Responsibilities:
- Adheres to and supports the mission, purpose, philosophy, objectives, policies, and procedures of Tenet Physician Resources.
- Adheres to the Tenet HIPAA Compliance Plan and the Privacy Standards Confidentiality Agreement.
- Demonstrates support for the Tenet Corporate Compliance Program by being knowledgeable of compliance responsibilities as expressed in the Code of Conduct; adhering to federal and state laws, rules, regulations, and corporate policies and procedures policies that affect his/her specific job functions/responsibilities; and reporting compliance issues/concerns in a timely and appropriate manner.
- Abstract moderate to highly complex clinical data using established definitions and guidelines and maintain an abstracting volume to meet internal and external reporting deadlines.
- Perform clinical review of a medical record and summarize the findings to facilitate additional review.
- Reviews patient non-compliance lists and conducts outreach to ensure timely disease specific and wellness visits.
- Collects and tracks monthly, quarterly and annual process improvement measures.
- Conducts analysis of data in cooperation with the medical staff to assist in identification of improvement activities.
- Understands current issues, practices and trends in healthcare and communicates to employees as appropriate.
- Presents data collected in an organized format to facilitate analysis and identification of improvement opportunities.
- Provides documented reports of findings from data collection as requested.
- Provides education to medical staff members and hospital staff as appropriate to enhance performance and documentation.
- Other duties as assigned
