You’ll need
Education
✓High school graduate or its equivalent
Qualifications
✓Minimum of 2 years of profee coding experience in an acute care hospital with experience using an encoder
✓Proficient in detailed work
✓Maintain a professional image in handling confidential patient information
✓Excellent written and oral communication skills to interact with physicians, other health care workers, the general public, administration, and health information management staff
✓Team oriented
About the role
The Coder 2 classifies and abstracts inpatient and outpatient diagnoses and procedures, which are assigned appropriate ICD10-CM, ICD10 PCS and/or CPT codes for optimal reimbursement. They establish an accurate database for case mix indices which provide statistical reporting and trend analysis. The Coder 2 is proficient in coding DRG based records as well as all other payers.