Audit Clinical Data Coordinator

Location: Northern

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** Summary
* * Works with all clinical audit teams, compliance department, and specific departments to maintain an organized and timely logging, gathering of documentation, tracking, and follow-up of all audits including recovery audit contractor and any third-party request activities. Follow-up and support data, manages the data and organization, and administrative needs to all clinical audit teams to help with reporting of data and identifying trends.

** Job Duties
*** Analyze data of requested claims and applies critical analytic thinking to identify pre and post-pay audit trends and claim denial trends by facility location, payers, and services lines to prepare reports to reflect RAC audits, insurance, and third-party activities and claim denials.
* Logs all audit and claim denial requests, review findings, and determinations into the audit and tracking data base and evaluate logging and tracking processes and log all claim denials.
* Identify workflow road blocks and makes recommendations to management and software vendor.
* Develops and maintains a productive client, staff, and management relationships through individual contacts, events, and group meetings.
* Communicate the results of audit activities via written report and oral presentation to management.
* Completes follow-up and closing of audits.
* Creates educational materials on use of audit tracking software and provides ongoing training to staff.
* Works, reviews, and files all mail coming in via fax/scanning/e-mail and assign to most appropriate work queues for the Audit Compliance and Data Coordinator team to work.
* Coordinators sending of appeals via Right Fax while creating a database of all appeals sent.
* Assist clinical audit and follow-up teams with write-offs and assigned to management work queue.
* Attend monthly insurance/payer vendor meetings to ensure up to date information on policy updates/billing updates/etc. Maintains open communication with insurance/vendor representatives.  
** Minimum Qualifications
*** High School Diploma/GED
* 3 years 3 years in a hospital or healthcare administrative secretarial or office management enviroment
* Ability to handle multiple tasks, deadlines, and requests utilizing appropriate time-management…