Information Technician Health

NICSIN MILLARE RHIT

SUMMARY

Acute care coder for 15 + years. AHIMA Certified RHIT #30646

EXPERIENCE

Inpatient Outpatient Coder, 11/1989 - 06/2021

Swedish Covenant Hospital - Chicago, IL

EDUCATION AND TRAINING

Associate of Applied Science, Health Information Technology, 05/1989 Harry S. Truman College - Chicago, IL

CERTIFICATIONS

CONTACT

Address: Hanover Park, IL 60133

Phone: 773-***-****

Email: *********@******.***

SKILLS

Communicated with CDI Nurses to promote DRG accuracy if necessary to achieve better case mix.

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Read through patient health data, including H & P, Daily progress notes, Consultants impression or assessments, Surgical reports and treatments to gain understanding for coding purposes.

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Carefully coded diseases, injury diagnoses and treatments to capture severity of illnesses.

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Reviewed and abstracted relevant data from dictated operative reports to and assign PCS-10 to capture intensity of services.

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• Carefully assign POA code.

• Code and finalize 2-3 DRG/hour.

Use 3M DRG analyzer if DRG GMLOS is very low and patient hospital days is very high.

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Hold DRG "Principal Dx unrelated to PCS-10" and re analyze ER and H & P notes or assessment to make sure in compliance with coding guidance.

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Hold single MCC or CC to make sure "action or treatment" can support ICD-10 codes.

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• Code and finalize 30-35 SDC per day

• Code and finalize 80-90 ER per day

• Code and finalize 28-32 INO per day

Assist billing with coding related question: invalid PDx, obsolete ICD-10, missing modifier and / or missing code to match revenue code.

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• Registered Health Information Technician (RHIT)

• Medical terminology

Knowledgeable in 3M DRG encoder

and APC grouper

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• Professional work ethic

• Friendly, positive attitude

ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Consistently meet and exceed department expectations.

• AHIMA #30646

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