What are the responsibilities and job description for the Certified Coder position at City of Hope?
Join the transformative team at City of Hope, where we're changing lives and making a real difference in the fight against cancer, diabetes, and other life-threatening illnesses. City of Hope’s growing national system includes its Los Angeles campus, a network of clinical care locations across Southern California, a new cancer center in Orange County, California, and treatment facilities in Atlanta, Chicago and Phoenix. our dedicated and compassionate employees are driven by a common mission: To deliver the cures of tomorrow to the people who need them today.
As a successful candidate, you will:
- Reads and interprets medical record documentation to identify all diagnosis, conditions, problems and procedures for inpatient discharge, inpatient interim, outpatient surgery, outpatient clinic and ancillary services coding
- Clarifies conflicting, ambiguous, or non- specific information appearing in a medical record by consulting the appropriate physician through the established query process
- Applies Uniform Hospital Discharge Data Set definitions to select principal diagnosis, principal procedure, complications, co-morbid conditions, other diagnoses and significant procedures which require coding.
- Applies knowledge of ICD instructional notations and conventions to locate and assign the correct diagnostic and procedural codes and sequence them correctly.
- Applies knowledge of current approved ICD coding guidelines to assign and sequence the correct diagnoses and procedure codes.
- Applies knowledge of anatomy, clinical disease processes, and diagnostic and procedural terminology to assign accurate codes to diagnoses and procedures.
- Applies the Basic Coding Guidelines for Inpatient, Outpatient Services and Diagnostic Coding to select and sequence diagnoses, conditions, problems, or other reasons which require coding in ambulatory care and or inpatient.
Your qualifications should include:
- Post High School or equivalent
- Two years of acute care coding experience.
- Thorough knowledge of medical terminology/anatomy/ physiology/ coding principles
- CCS
Additional Information:
- There are 2 open positions
- This is a union position
City of Hope employees pay is based on the following criteria: work experience, qualifications, and work location.
City of Hope is an equal opportunity employer. To learn more about our commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion, please click here.
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Salary : $40 - $56
