Required: Background in Inpatient with 3-5 years' experience in Coding or Auditing.
Highly Preferred: Auditing experience with DRGs.
Job Description
Responds to commercial payers, managed care and third party review organizations in managing the appeals/denials process. Supports the review of denial trends and identifies coding issues and knowledge gaps.
Job Responsibility
- Supports denial reviews and response processes; prioritizes and reviews cases denied by commercial payers.
- Reports program performance and/or corrective action to management on regular basis.
- Assists in monitoring inpatient denial types, volume and formulates responses to requesting agency; seeks additional resources (e.g. legal counsel) to resolve issues, as needed; develops case-specific written rationale to substantiate and communicate findings.
- Addresses coding issues and knowledge gaps; functions as a organization resource for litigation as related to coding denials.
- Maintains hospital database.
- Remains up-to-date on DRG system literature from all agencies.
- Maintains coding clinic up-dates.
- Operates under general guidance and work assignments are varied and require interpretation and independent decisions on course of action.
- Performs related duties as required. All responsibilities noted here are considered essential functions of the job under the Americans with Disabilities Act. Duties not mentioned here, but considered related are not essential functions.
Job Qualification
- Bachelor's Degree required, or equivalent combination of education and related experience.
- Current Professional Coder Certification, or Current Coding Professional Certification, or Current Registered Health Information Technician Certification required, plus specialized certifications as needed.
- 1-3 years of relevant experience, required.
- Knowledgeable on DRGs, preferred.
- Proficient in Microsoft Excel, preferred.
*Additional Salary Detail
The salary range and/or hourly rate listed is a good faith determination of potential base compensation that may be offered to a successful applicant for this position at the time of this job advertisement and may be modified in the future. When determining a team member's base salary and/or rate, several factors may be considered as applicable (e.g., location, specialty, service line, years of relevant experience, education, credentials, negotiated contracts, budget and internal equity).
Skills Required
- Background in inpatient coding or auditing (3-5 years)
- Bachelor's Degree or equivalent combination of education and related experience
- Current Professional Coder Certification OR Current Coding Professional Certification OR Registered Health Information Technician (RHIT) Certification
- 1-3 years of relevant experience
- Auditing experience with DRGs
- Knowledgeable on DRGs
- Proficient in Microsoft Excel
What We Do
Northwell Health is New York’s largest private employer and health care provider, with 23 hospitals and nearly 800 outpatient facilities. We care for over two million people annually in the New York metro area and beyond, thanks to philanthropic support from our communities. Our 74,000+ employees – 18,500+ nurses and 14,200+ credentialed physicians, including about 4,500 employed doctors and nearly 3,300 members of Northwell Health Physician Partners – are working to change health care for the better. We’re making breakthroughs in medicine at the Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research. We're training the next generation of medical professionals at the visionary Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell and the Hofstra Northwell School of Graduate Nursing and Physician Assistant Studies. For information on our more than 100 medical specialties, visit Northwell.edu. Interested in a career at Northwell Health?
