Outpatient Auditor

At e4health, our vision is to Empower Better Health for our clients, our team, and the communities we serve. We live by five core values that guide everything we do:

• Embrace Change, Fun, and Learning: We maintain an unrelenting focus on quality, client success, and team member growth.
• Our PEOPLE Make the Difference: We build trusted relationships and celebrate wins every day.
• WE GROW: We believe in win/win outcomes—when our customers win, we win.
• GSD (Get Stuff Done): We say no to politics, drama, and egos, and yes to informed, agile decisions.
• Respectfully Listen, Challenge, & Support Each Other: We listen intently, challenge respectfully, and support fully.

Serving more than 400 hospitals and health systems nationwide for nearly two decades, e4health provides solutions to tackle the toughest problems in healthcare with unmatched technology, mid-revenue cycle, and operational expertise. Our solutions streamline clinical, financial, and health information workflows, optimize coding, quality, and clinical documentation integrity processes, and address health IT operational challenges to deliver material results for healthcare organizations across the country.

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Full Time

Non-Exempt

The Outpatient Auditor is responsible for completing quality assurance reviews on internal and/or external outpatient coding specialists or external providers. The facility-based chart types may include one or more of the following:
Emergency Department, Observation, Same Day Surgery, Ancillary, Interventional Radiology, or Facility-Based Clinic. This may also include onboarding audits and training of newly hired e4health coding specialists. This role is responsible for validating the coding specialist is accurately for accurately abstracting data into appropriate client electronic medical record systems, following the Official ICD-10-CM, CPT, and HCPCS Guidelines for Coding, AMA CPT Guidelines, and CMS directives.

The Outpatient Auditor also plays a key role in reporting quality results, tracking and trending of educational opportunities of the coding specialist, responding to client subject matter needs, and providing educational support and training to coders and/or providers. The Outpatient Auditor is expected to maintain consistent coding auditing accuracy rate of 95% or better while also meeting agreed upon productivity standards.

• Complete all regularly scheduled quality assurance reviews for clients
• Complete onboarding quality assurance reviews for newly hired consultants
• May provide training for newly hired coding consultants
• Communicate quality issues to management as appropriate
• Assist with identification of, drafting, implementation, and monitoring of quality improvement action plans for coding consultants
• Maintain reports and accuracy rates for coding consultants and clients as appropriate.
• Respond to client QA needs at the direction of management
• Provide coding consultants educational sessions on error trends as requested by management
• Notifying management when there is a compliance concern or incident
• Demonstrating knowledge of HIPAA Privacy and Security Regulations as evidenced by appropriate handling of patient information
• Promoting confidentiality and using discretion when handling patient information.
• Attend educational conference calls
• Provide coding support to the business as needed
• Perform other duties as needed with the project
• Maintains required productivity and quality requirements

We offer an excellent salary, full benefits package including 401(k) with company match, medical, dental, vision, life, short/long term disability insurance, and PTO policy.