Join us at Holy Family Hospital
Not many healthcare professionals have the opportunity to build a career with a great job and robust benefits while also caring for friends, family and neighbors. You can when you work at Holy Family Hospital in Methuen and Haverhill. As part of the Steward Health Care System, our goal is to offer low-cost, high-quality healthcare to the people who live and work near our hospital, so they don’t have to travel far for great care.
Our two campuses in Methuen and Haverhill have a total of 320 beds, and we are a full-service, acute care hospital offering comprehensive inpatient medical/surgical units, outpatient care, and 24/7 emergency services. We have three behavioral health units: cardiac telemetry, and critical care service lines. Our Haverhill campus offers all private rooms, and our Methuen campus offers a new state-of-the-art catheterization suite and Joint Center of Excellence, named as a Blue Cross Blue Shield Blue Distinction+ Center for Knee and Hip Replacement.
Position Summary: 40 hour days, Remote
Summary
- Serves as a team leader and resource for day-to-day coding operations. Reviews daily control reports, workload, coder assignments and coverage. Assists in reconciling coding and billing edits or other issues hat preclude timely billing. Responds to delays with outstanding queries, status changes, uncoded or incomplete charts. Assists with cross-training, denials management, appeals, and education plans. Makes recommendations and immediately reports concerns to Director.
- Reviews medical records and assigns ICD-10-CM and CPT -4 codes for inpatients, day surgery, and observation other outpatient medical records including emergency department records. Abstracts/ verifies additional data required to maintain an accurate hospital patient database.
- Knowledge of ICD-10-CM, CPT-4 classifications systems, encoder software and demonstrated understanding of MS-DRG and APC assignment and reimbursement.
- Ensures medical records are coded in an accurate and timely manner, according to the hospital and official ICD-10-CM coding guidelines.
- Skilled in assignment of facility level codes. Abstracting clinical information from inpatient and outpatient medical records.
- Attends Revenue Cycle Meetings, CDI meetings and any other meetings concerning coding.
Qualifications
- Education: CCS credential required. Accredited Health Information Technician credentials preferred.
- Certification/Licensure: CCS
- Experience: Two years of acute hospital coding experience.
- Software/Hardware: Microsoft applications, encoder, Meditech preferred.
Benefits
We have many plans with various deductibles, which can cover individuals or families, so you can customize a plan that will work for you! Steward Health Care works with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts to provide affordable health insurance for our employees in benefit-eligible positions. Our Health Plans Highlights are:
- Deductibles will not apply to services provided by a Steward provider (Tier 1).
- Office visits copay will be $0 when a member uses a Steward Provider (Tier 1).
- Mental Health and Substance Abuse office visits will be $0 for all In-Network providers (Tier 1, Tier 2, and Tier 3).
Other Benefits Provided
- Dental, Vision, Health Care Savings Account, Life Insurance, Short Term and Long-Term Disability, Tuition Reimbursement, Paid Time Off, Shift Differential, Tuition Reimbursement, and more.
Salary Range: $15.81-$23.50
About Steward Health Care
Nearly a decade ago, Steward Health Care System emerged as a different kind of health care company designed to usher in a new era of wellness. One that provides our patients better, more proactive care at a sustainable cost, our providers with unrivaled coordination of care, and our communities greater prosperity and stability.
As the country’s largest physician-led, tax-paying, integrated health care system, our doctors can be certain that we share their interests and those of their patients. Together we are on a mission to revolutionize the way health care is delivered - creating healthier lives, thriving communities and a better world.
Steward is among the nation’s largest and most successful accountable care organizations (ACO), with more than 5,500 providers and 43,000 health care professionals who care for 12.3 million patients a year through a closely integrated network of hospitals, multi-specialty medical groups, urgent care centers, skilled nursing facilities and behavioral health centers. Based in Dallas, Steward currently operates 39 hospitals across Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Texas.
