Medical Coding Specialist - Inpatient Hospital

Trajectory is the largest revenue cycle management company in Wichita, KS. We provide revenue cycle management for clients throughout the US, managing over $300,000,000 in cash collections per year. We have grown by 50% in each of the last 5 years. This allows us to offer significant opportunity for advancement to those team members that prove excellence and meet our cultural imperatives of teamwork, client focus, and Pursuit of Awesome.

We believe our quality of service begins with our quality of team member. We offer exceptional benefits and working environments to exceptional employees. We are seeking a qualified medical coding specialist to join an established and talented team. The qualified candidate will have experience coding in a facility setting, be self-motivated, positive and detail oriented. Inpatient and outpatient hospital coding experience is a requirement for this position. Job functions include the following.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

1. Identifies and codes Inpatient records for the purpose of reimbursement, research, and compliance with federal regulations according to diagnosis and procedure using ICD-10-PCS 
2. Reviews clinical documentation, procedural information, and diagnostic results to assign ICD-10-CM and PCS diagnostic and procedural  codes used for billing, internal and external data reporting, research, regulatory compliance3, and quality monitoring.
3. Assigns the correct principal diagnosis, comorbidities and complications (CC's and MCC's) secondary diagnosis, POA (Present on Admission) indicators, HAC ( Hospital-Acquired Conditions), principal procedure codes, and secondary procedure codes according to official coding guidelines.
4. Query physicians as necessary to complete and accurately code accounts
5. Work directly with CDI (Clinical Documentation Improvement) department on concurrent review for completeness and accuracy
6. Work directly with the billing department to effectuate smooth AR processes
7. Identify trends and offer corrective action
8. Represent Trajectory and its clients in a professional manner
9. Maintain excellent customer service to both our clients and our provider's patients
10. Other duties as assigned by manager

FULL TIME BENEFITS

1. Employer sponsored Major Medical
2. Employer sponsored Dental
3. Employer sponsored Vision
4. Accidental Death and Disability insurance
5. Short term disability
6. 4.5% 401K matching
7. Flexible spending account
8. Generous paid time off

This is a remote position.