Inpatient Rehabilitation Coder

Job Category:
Health Information Management

Job Type: Full-Time

Job Location:

LA-Lafayette

Facility Type:
Corporate

Shift Type (Clinical Positions):
Day Shift

Acadiana Management Group, LLC dba AMG
- Integrated Healthcare Management (AMG), an employee-owned company, is hiring a full-time home-based Inpatient Rehabilitation Coder
. At a minimum, two years’ Inpatient Rehabilitation coding experience is required. Must be certified as an RHIT, RHIA or CCS. A secure work area and internet access are required.

• Attendance via Zoom for Coding meetings and weekly hospital team meetings
• Perform ICD-10-CM and ICD-10-PCS coding for both the IRF-PAI and UB for all assigned rehabilitation hospitals
• Review medical records and code clinical data such as diseases, operations, procedures, and therapies according to coding guidelines and facility-specific policies for multiple facilities
• Perform initial and concurrent coding of all in-house patients and update diagnosis in information system as necessary according to facility policies.
• Perform final coding on all discharges according to billing policies.
• Initiate timely queries per coding ethics and clinical documentation improvement guidelines for any documentation clarification that is needed in the medical record.
• Update case management and facility team timely with all changes in CMG.
• RHIT/RHIA or Certified Coder (CCS) required
• Must have a required minimum of 2 years’ coding experience in Inpatient Rehabilitation with a strong knowledge of case mix groups and impairment group categories
• Well organized and able to multi-task
• Comfortable with maintaining daily open communication with the hospital team: CEO, MD, Case Management and Clinical Liaison’s
• Self-motivated with an ability to work with limited direction and distraction
• Proficient in 3M, Microsoft Excel & Microsoft outlook.

AMG is a hospital system committed to our patients, our people, and to the pursuit of healing. As a Top-5 Post-Acute hospital system, we’re known for excellence, integrity, community, and compassion.

Our mission is to return patients to their optimal level of well-being in the least restrictive medical environment. We accomplish this through a multi-disciplined approach that includes aggressive clinical and therapeutic interventions, as well as family involvement. Our high staff to patient ratio ensures individualized attention. Our nurses, therapists, and physicians work with each patient to obtain the best possible outcomes.

Acadiana Management Group, LLC is an equal opportunity employer.