Medical Records Clerk

The work location for this position is Lewiston, Idaho

Full-Time: 80-hrs per pay period

Hours: 8:00am - 4:30pm

Benefits May Include:

• Medical, Dental, Vision
• 401k w/ employer match
• Short & Long-term disabilities
• Life & AD&D insurances
• Employee Assistance Program
• Pet Insurance
• and more…

Position Summary:

The Medical Records Clerk is responsible for timely and accurate qualitative/quantitative analysis of records, scanning and form assignment, for monitoring physician documentation deficiencies, for retrieval and release of health information, and for a working knowledge of the required component parts for all types of patient records processed by the HIS department.

Primary (Essential) Duties:

• Organizes medical record documents following established systems, ensuring timely and accurate filing to the Electronic Medical Record (EMR).
• Files records utilizing a variety of filing systems and utilizes optical imaging software.
• Retrieves records and assists physicians in performing chart completion activities.
• Assists in analysis of inpatient, outpatient and ER records.
• Performs understanding and ability to scan and assign form IDs for all documents scanned to the EMR.
• Receives and answers routine inquiries from patients, insurance companies, physician offices and others regarding patient records, birth verifications, and dates of medical service.  Routes non-routine calls to Level II staff.
• Provides patient specific information to physician offices to facilitate patient care and physician office billing.
• Ensures the integrity of the Facility Master Patient Index by monitoring the assignment of the unique medical record number and performing MERGE PATIENT computer routines where necessary.
• Performs routine clerical tasks including reception activities, answering routine requests for patient record information.
• Provides basic instructions to physicians regarding dictation procedures and transcription inquiry procedures.  Assists physicians in use of the Physician Workstation Management module.
• Compiles computerized reports detailing physician delinquencies, chart location recipients and correspondence database reports.
• Copies and distributes reports for physicians, insurance companies, hospitals and other referral agencies.

Scion Health considers a consistently positive, cooperative, self-motivated, courteous, and professional attitude to be an essential function of every position.  While different positions have different primary areas of responsibility, everyone needs to work as a team, and we expect all employees to roll up their sleeves and pitch in as necessary to get the job done.

Employees must be able to relate to other people beyond giving and receiving instructions: (a) can get along with co-workers or peers without exhibiting behavioral extremes, (b) perform work activities requiring negotiating, instructing, supervising, persuading, or speaking with others; and (c) respond appropriately to constructive feedback from a supervisor.

While this job description is intended to be an accurate reflection of the requirements of the job, management reserves the right to add or remove duties from particular jobs when circumstances (e.g., emergencies, changes in workload, rush jobs or technological developments) dictate.

Required:

• High school diploma or GED
• Ability to keyboard at 55-60 wpm
• Medical terminology
• Computer experience in word processing, mainframe keyboarding, or spreadsheet applications

Preferred:

• Graduation from a medical secretary program