Medical Coding
Resume:
Davonah Dodd, RHIT, CCS-P
DeSoto, Texas 75115
Objective to obtain a responsible and challenging position in the health care institution that my education and work experience would be valued.
Qualifications
I am excellent employee who is dependable and reliable, two characteristics that’s hard to find in the today’s world. I approach all tasks assigned with a maturity and vigor. I will be a definite asset to your department because of my coding knowledge, speed, and accuracy.
Education
1992 San Diego, Mesa College, San Diego, CA
• AS Degree in Medical Records Technician
1990 Texas Women’s University, Denton, Texas
• General Studies
Experience
2010-present Parkland Health and Hospital System
Day Surgery /Observation Coder
• Coding SDS/OBS charts for various specialties and accurately assigning, sequencing ICD-9, CPT-4, and HCPCS codes and modifiers.
• Analyzes and interprets the medical record in its entirety to ensure accurate, complete and consistent selection of diagnoses and procedures to assure the production of quality healthcare data and accurate facility payment.
• Apply coding conventions and official coding guidelines approved by the Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) rules established by the American Medical Association (AMA), and any other official rules and guidelines established for use with the mandated outpatient procedure code sets.
• Apply and adheres to Outpatient Perspective Payment System (OPPS), APC foundations and the use of Correct Coding Initiatives (CCI) edits during CPT procedure selection.
• Apply the Uniform Hospital Discharge Data Set definitions as well as any additional regulatory guidelines and/ or coding references (Coding Clinic, 3M references) to select the principal diagnosis, secondary diagnoses, and all significant procedures as documented in the medical record.
2009-2010 Maxim Health Information Services
Emergency Room Coder (Remote Coder)
• Reviews medical record documentation (cpt/cms) to select and sequence the appropriate ICD-9-CM diagnosis and ICD-9-CM and HCPCS procedure codes.
• Apply all appropriate coding guidelines and criteria for code selections.
• Adheres to Company and Coding Compliance policies and procedures for the assignment of complete, accurate, timely, and consistent codes for diagnoses
• Abstracting Coding (ICD-9)
• Encoder
2004- 2009 Nicka and Associates, Inc., Plano, Texas
Emergency Room Remote Coder (Coding Specialist)
• Assign E/M codes and analyzes information within the chart to properly assign ICD-9-CM or CPT.
• Collect data from within the record to be abstracted.
• Knowledge of rules and regulations pertaining to clinical documentation
and reimbursement systems.
• Coding plain film x-ray
• Oberservation Stay
2003-2004 Synergistic Systems, Inc., Dallas, Texas
Emergency Room Coder (Specialty Team)
• Code ER records according to state and insurance regulations.
• Perform documentation and coding audit.
• Assign E/M codes, ICD-9CM and CPT-4 codes and maintain working knowledge of the coding principles.
• Physician base coding
• Review patience medical chart and assign appropriated diagnostics and procedures code to the medical records needed for billing purposes.
• Perform coding using current year CPT and ICD-9 books and regulations.
1993-2003 Med Trust Healthcare Services, Dallas, Texas
Physician Documentation Support Coordinator/Coder
• Code ER records
• Perform documentation and coding audit for emergency room physician practice, utilizing 95 guidelines.
• Work in conjunction with the coding supervisor, developing appropriate departmental goals, objectives and productively targets and requirements.
• Responsible for written and verbal communications with physicians, mid-level practitioner and staff on documentation issues.
• Provide follow-up education to the providers based on the findings of the audits.
• Develops and interprets reports to assist in the view and analysis of documentation and coding patterns to providers.
• Conducts a review on all emergency room records to ensure compliance with coding and documentation guidelines and all governmental rules and regulations.
• When evaluation and management services are not documented appropriately, seek to obtain proper documentation in a timely manner.
• Assures that all services documented in the patient’s chart are coded with the appropriate CPT-4 and ICD-9 codes. When services are not documented appropriately, seek to obtain proper documentation in a timely manner.
• Reconciles accounts to ensure all charges have been received and inputted into billing system correctly.
American Health Information Management Association
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