Hospital Coding Liaison

Position Summary

At Orlando Health, we are ordinary people with extraordinary individuality, working together to bring help, healing and hope to those we serve. By daily embodying our over 100-year legacy, we reinforce our reputation as a trusted and respected healthcare organization that delivers professional and compassionate care to our patients, families and communities. Through our award-winning hospitals and ERs, specialty institutes, urgent care centers, primary care practices and outpatient facilities, our 27,000+ team members serve communities that span Florida’s east to west coasts and beyond.

Orlando Health is committed to providing you with benefits that go beyond the expected, with career‑growing FREE education programs and well‑being services to support you and your family through every stage of life. We begin your benefits on day one and offer flexibility wherever possible so that you can be present for your passions. “Orlando Health Is Your Best Place to Work” is not just something we say, it’s our promise to you.

The Hospital Coding Liaison will be responsible for performing, developing, and implementing hospital coding services to ensure the diagnostic and procedure codes are assigned accurately to inpatient and outpatient encounters based upon documentation within the electronic medical record while maintaining compliance with established rules and regulatory guidelines.

• Interacts and communicates effectively with coders, physicians, physician extenders, physician offices and members of the coding and management team.
• Collaborates with manager and other members of the Revenue Management Team to review all necessary patient records for accurate coding for best practice.
• Review and audit medical records to ensure quality of work and specificity of diagnoses and procedures to ensure appropriate and optimal reimbursement.
• Responds promptly to internal and external requests to provide feedback on coding related issues.
• Participates and provides good feedback during coding section meetings and coding education in services as well as takes initiative to assist others and shares knowledge with the appropriate stakeholders.
• Maintains and achieves the highest standards of coding quality by assigning accurate/ICD‑10‑CM/ICD‑10‑PCS codes utilizing an electronic encoder application in accordance with hospital policy and regulatory body guidelines.
• Maintains and achieves department standards of abstracting quality by reviewing accurate discharge disposition, to achieve the highest quality of entered data.
• Reviews medical record documentation and abstracts data into Electronic Health Record (EHR) to determine principal or final diagnosis, co‑morbidity conditions and complications, secondary conditions, and procedures. Utilizes all tools/resources for accuracy.
• Complies with the Standards of Ethical Coding as set forth by the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA), American Academy of Professional Coders (AAPC), and adheres to official guidelines.
• Collaborates with Clinical Document Excellence (CDE), Quality Management and other departments to determine appropriate DRG assignment for compliance and reimbursement purposes.
• Attends departmental and interdepartmental meetings as required.
• Utilizes resource material available in department to support coding practices.
• Assists in coding in any inpatient and/or outpatient cases as needed.
• Takes an active role in developing and presenting educational materials to different stakeholders.
• Serves as a preceptor to new coders.
• Maintains reasonably regular, punctual attendance consistent with Orlando Health policies, the ADA, FMLA and other federal, state, and local standards.
• Maintains compliance with all Orlando Health policies and procedures.

• Develops and updates internal departmental processes.
• Assumes the responsibility for professional growth and development through educational programs, research, etc.
• Maintains certification status.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.
• Maintains 95% or above accuracy rate.

• Completion of coding certificate program or Associate’s or…