Senior Coding Educator

Hourly Pay Range:
$32.60 - $48.90 - The hourly pay rate offered is determined by a candidate's expertise and years of experience, among other factors.

Position Highlights:

• Position:
  Senior Coding Educator
• Location:
  
  Skokie, IL
• Full Time
• Hours:
  
  Monday-Friday, 8:00am-4:30pm

A Brief Overview:
The purpose of this job is to educate physicians, other qualified billing providers, and ancillary staff on their documentation for all specialties and review providers progress notes, as needed, to ensure coding/billing compliance in accordance with coding rules, third party payor guidelines, governmental regulations, and MG's Coding Compliance Program. The Senior Analyst will conduct face-to-face summary review sessions to report findings to the Practice Manager, Provider audited, and/or Senior Management of the MG.

Through the audit/review process, this person will also conduct a report back to the provider and practice manager any income enhancing opportunities that might be uncovered in the investigation. The Senior Analyst, as a coding and billing expert, will assist all freestanding and provider-based outpatient departments with ICD-10, CPT-4, and HCPCS coding education and billing regulation interpretation. They will also assist in conducting department presentations.

What you will do:

• Analyzes progress notes, op reports, pathology reports, encounter forms, explanation of benefits, patient insurance information, and various other health information documents for pro-fee coding and billing accuracy.
• Assigns appropriate ICD-10, CPT, and HCPCS codes to medical record documentation under review by applying physician specialty coding rules, third party payor guidelines, and Medicare Local Medical Review Policies.
• Assists Manager/Director with providing information to the physician or medical specialty based on the Office of Inspector General's (OIG) and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) risk areas. Reads the OIG's Semi-Annual reports and the OIG'S/CMS's Annual Workplan, in addition to notifications published on government websites.
• Performs physician and departmental documentation reviews based on industry standard coding and billing guidelines and payer policies to provide documentation and workflow improvement opportunities.
• Works with MG physicians or clinic personnel, HIRS, to interpret medical record documentation and/or documentation summary as necessary.
• Works with Customer Service and MG Operations to review and resolve escalated patient coding disputes.
• Works collaboratively with Billing, HIRS, overseeing provider/specialty and Denials Management Team to provide educational and/or income enhancing opportunities when issues are identified by those teams.
• Conducts educational sessions with Site Directors, Practice Managers, and providers on frequently seen coding errors in their site and assists with implementing changes to improve coding quality and minimize compliance risk.
• Provides feedback to Manager/ Director that identifies inefficient coding/operational processes.
• Assists with related special projects as assigned by Manager/ Director.
• Initiate and provide coding education to all MG billing providers, focusing on Evaluation and Management (E&M) documentation and billing requirements, as well as any specialty-specific coding guidelines.
• Works on special projects with the Hospital Billing Business Office and/or the Finance Department to perform reimbursement analysis functions as assigned by Manager/ Director.
• Submits ideas to Manager of Coding Quality & Auditing departmental newsletter based on coding/billing issues, coding help-line questions, or results of provider audits. May produce Monthly Newsletter if assigned.
• Participates in Coding and Business Operation Education in-services assigned by Manager
• Researches multi-specialty coding and billing questions received from the Coding Help-line/email for EHMG provider/staff and provides verbal or written response as appropriate. Maintains filing system of all questions received and answers provided to caller.
• Identifies trends or patterns of questionable coding and billing practices at Hospital Outpatient and Medical Group sites and reports issues to…