Medical Records Specialist

About NYC Health + Hospitals NYC Health + Hospitals/Gouverneur is a 295-bed Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF) with a 5-Star CMS Quality Rating, located in Manhattan’s Lower East Side neighborhood. Gouverneur offers enhanced, cutting edge healthcare services in a state-of-the-art space. It provides 24-hour care for individuals in need of sub-acute care, long-term care or hospice care which include services like physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech and vocational rehabilitation.

Gouverneur is an academic affiliate of NYU School of Medicine and Rusk Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine. From more than 600 Nursing Homes in New York, Gouverneur ranks #2 in the State, and #1 in New York City, in Newsweek’s Best Nursing Homes in New York 2026 ; and also received high-performance ratings for Long-term Care and Short-term Rehabilitation from U. S.

News & World Report’s Best Nursing Homes in America 2026 . At NYC Health + Hospitals, our mission is to deliver high quality care health services, without exception. Every employee takes a person-centered approach that exemplifies the ICARE values (Integrity, Compassion, Accountability, Respect, and Excellence) through empathic communication and partnerships between all persons.

Duties & Responsibilities Purpose of Position : Under supervision, analyzes, abstracts, codes or indexes patients' medical record in a health care setting in compliance with all applicable local, state, and federal rules and regulations. Through coding and reporting, supports optimal utilization of System resources and services to improve outcomes in conformance with NYC Health + Hospitals standards of care; performs related work.

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1. Reviews, analyzes, abstracts, codes or indexes patients' medical record. 2. Prepares and maintains records, abstracts and summaries. 3.

May do comparative studies for determining data quality. 4. Completes data correction forms. 5. Prepares Congenital Malformations Report, Alzheimer's Disease, and other Dementias Report forms, as required. 6.

Instructs health care setting staff in the use of current coding classification. 7. May supervise and train other professional administrative staff of a medical record department. 8. May organize, file and retrieve medical records.

1. High school diploma or its educational equivalent, approved by a State’s Department of Education or a recognized accrediting organization; and 2. Completion of a coding or billing, medical record technology or health information technology (HIT) program approved by a nationally accredited agency (e.g., the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) or the Commission on Accreditation for Health Informatics and Information Education (CAHIIM)); or 3.

Certified Coding Specialist (CCS) by AHIMA, Certified Professional Coder (CPC) by the American Academy of Professional Coders (AAPC) or Certified Medical Billing Specialist (CMBS) by the Medical Association of Billers (MAB); or 4. Two (2) years of satisfactory experience in coding and/or abstracting medical records in a health care setting. How To Apply If you wish to apply for this position, please apply online by clicking the "Apply for Job" button.