Coding Specialist

We’re Maimonides Health, Brooklyn’s largest healthcare system, serving over 250,000 patients each year through the system’s 3 hospitals, 1800 physicians and healthcare professionals, more than 80 community-based practices and outpatient centers. At Maimonides Health, our core values H.E.A.R.T drives everything we do. We uphold and maintain Honesty, Empathy, Accountability, Respect, and Teamwork to empower our talented team, engage our respective communities and adhere to Planetree's philosophy of patient-centered care.

The system is anchored by Maimonides Medical Center, one of the nation’s largest independent teaching hospitals and home to centers of excellence in numerous specialties;
Maimonides Midwood Community Hospital (formerly New York Community Hospital), a 130-bed adult medical-surgical hospital; and Maimonides Children's Hospital, Brooklyn's only children's hospital and only pediatric trauma center. Maimonides' clinical programs rank among the best in the country for patient outcomes, including its Heart and Vascular Institute, Neuroscience Institute, Boneand Joint Center, and Cancer Center. Maimonides is an affiliate of Northwell Health and a major clinical training site for SUNY Downstate College of Medicine.

Data management functions in a variety of application areas; including clinical coding, outcomes

management, and specialty registries. Reviews medical records to confirm diagnoses and apply appropriate

disease and procedure codes in ICD-10- CM, ICD-10-PCS and CPT-4 classification systems.

Abstracts and analyses records for appropriateness of documentation for assigning DRG. Enters data into computer system to produce documentation required for correct patient billing. Assists in protecting legal interests of the patient, hospital and physician. Data Entry, and retrieval of data for the purpose of statistical reporting.

• Examines the medical record for consistency and accuracy of identifying information; reports any discrepancies or problems to supervisor
• Reviews medical record to determine all diagnoses and procedures in order to assign the appropriate codes.
• Assigns and sequences ICD-10-CM diagnostic and ICD-10-PCS procedural coding on all cases and utilizes AHIMA coding guidelines
• Abstracts data required by federal and state regulatory agencies (e.g., physician information, patient demographics) and enters into hospital computer system
• Analyzes for optimization and DRG assignments utilizing Encoder
• Identifies documentation specifics to support the diagnoses; provides the supervisor with the information to be communicated to the physicians
• Carries out all quality control procedures required by the department to ensure the accuracy of data
• Meets the required daily coding (ICD-10) and competency levels established for inpatient medical records (14-16) records with error rate