RCM_Medical Coder

Objective:

In this role you shall be responsible for understanding and extract significant information from medical Records. Being a Medical coder, you must transform healthcare diagnosis, procedures, medical services, and equipment into universal medical alphanumeric codes. The diagnoses and procedure codes should be coded from Medical Record.

Profile:

Medical coding is the process of transforming descriptions of medical diagnoses and procedures into universal medical code numbers. The diagnoses and procedures are usually taken from a variety of sources within the medical record, such as the transcription of the doctor’s notes, laboratory results, radiologic results, and other sources. Diagnosis codes are used to track diseases, whether they are chronic diseases such as diabetes mellitus and heart disease, contagious diseases such as norovirus, the flu, athlete’s foot. These diagnosis and procedure codes are used by government health programs, private health insurance companies, workers’ compensation carriers and others.

Job Responsibilities:

Manage the program for high-quality, timely coding of diagnoses and procedures for inpatient and outpatient accounts, using ICD-10, CPT-4, and HCPCS (Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System) coding classification systems, to meet billing system requirements

Work closely with physicians, technicians, insurance companies, and other integral parties to uncover and discuss coding analysis results

Develop, modify, and execute company policies and procedures that affect immediate operations and may also have organization-wide impact

Analyze issues where understanding situations or data requires in-depth knowledge of organizational objectives

Implement strategic policies, while selecting methods and evaluation criteria for obtaining accurate results

Skills Required:

Surgery Coding

Oncology Coding

E&M

Ortho Surgery Coding

General Surgery

Must-Have:

Graduate with 2 -4 years of experience in US medical coding with an international BPO/KPO.

Candidate should have cleared the AAPC/ AHIMA Certification. (MUST)

The candidate will be responsible for coding related to US healthcare.

Should be well adept with ICD-10, CPT, HCC codes.

Minimum 2 years of Experience is required in the same profile.

Should have analytical skills and should be able to identify any code.

Basic accounting skills and accurate audit patient ledgers

Education: Graduates/Postgraduates in B.Sc with specialization in Zoology, Biology, Botany, Bsc-Nursing, Biotechnology (Bsc, Msc, BTech/MTech), Micro-Biology, B-Pharm and M-Pharm.

Work experience: Must have at least 2 years' experience in RCM

Employment Type: Full Time, Permanent