Position Summary:
This position is responsible for timely and accurate quality review of both internal and vendor coding team members to assure compliance with coding guidelines and standards in addition to their foundation coding responsibilities. The position performs quality checks on coding and provides feedback to coders to assure the timely and accurate coding of medical charts for billing. This will be heavier during onboarding and fulfillment of quality goals for new coding team members. In collaboration with HIM coding management, the coder/quality review analyst will assist with selection of coders and encounters to be reviewed, as well as education to be presented to the coder based on review outcomes. The coder/quality review analyst will also bring forward any issues related to documentation or systems as they are discovered during the review process. Much of the time the coder will work as a production coder to prevent backlogs and assure timeliness of coding. When all codes have successfully met their onboarding goals, periodic quality checks will be conducted by this role.