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Certified Coder - Anesthesia

Roles & Responsibilities

  • Certified Medical Coder with anesthesia coding experience (e.g., CPC, CCS) or equivalent credential.
  • Proficiency in ICD-10-CM/PCS and CPT-4 coding, including ASA and HCPCS coding for anesthesia services.
  • Experience reviewing anesthesia and medical records to determine appropriate charge tickets and DRG assignments.
  • Strong attention to detail with the ability to identify incomplete or inaccurate charge tickets, communicate with providers/billers, maintain confidentiality, and comply with information security and organizational policies.

Requirements:

  • Code anesthesia charge tickets and ensure accurate CPT/ICD-10/ASA/HCPCS coding on all tickets.
  • Review anesthesia and medical records to ensure supporting documentation and DRG accuracy; request additional information from providers as needed.
  • Identify cosmetic and/or prepaid cases and create dual tickets (insurance and patient responsibility); deliver coded charts to the billing department.
  • Assist Billing and AR departments as needed and communicate issues to management while adhering to confidentiality and information security policies.

Job description

Company Overview

National Partners in Healthcare (NPH) is a progressive healthcare company specializing in anesthesiology. We partner with physicians and health systems to deliver high quality care, aligning synergies and best practices to achieve superior outcomes. As a leader in the industry, we believe in developing a foundation of trust, transparency, and excellence in everything we do. The success of our company has created excellent career advancement opportunities that support a healthy work/life balance.

Position Summary:

 The Certified Coder abstracts clinical information from a variety of medical records, charts and documents and assigns appropriate ICD-10 and/or CPT-4 codes to patient records according to established procedures. Works with coding databases and confirms DRG assignments. Inputs and maintains data on procedures required for state or other reporting.

 

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

  • Codes Anesthesia charge tickets.
  • Reviews CPT, ICD-10, ASA and HCPCS coding on charge tickets.
  • Reviews anesthesia records for supporting documentation for charge tickets.
  • Reviews medical records for supporting documentation for charge tickets.
  • May require sending back to the providers for additional information.
  • Review all incomplete or inaccurate charge tickets that are sent back from the billers for additional information and make necessary corrections. 
  • Identify cosmetic and/or prepaid cases and ensure two tickets are created, one for insurance and one for patient responsibility.
  • Deliver coded charts to assigned box for delivery to billing department.
  • Assist Billing and AR Department as needed. 
  • Communicates issues and questions to management when appropriate.
  • Maintains strictest confidentiality.
  • Adhere to all company policies and procedures.
  • Adherence to and compliance with information systems security is everyone’s responsibility. It is the responsibility of every computer user to: Know and follow Information Systems security policies and procedures. Attend Information Systems security training, when offered.  Report information systems security problems.
  • Perform other duties as assigned

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