CODER III

Coder III

Full-time

Company Description

Healthcare

Job Description

Coder III

3-5 years experience preferred

Provides high level technical competency and subject matter expertise analyzing physician/provider documentation contained in assigned Complex Outpatient (CO) and Inpatient health records (electronic, paper and hybrid) to determine the principal diagnosis, secondary diagnoses, principal procedure and secondary procedures. Provides appropriate Medical Severity Diagnostic Related Groups (MS-DRG), Present on Admission (POA), Severity of Illness (SOI) & Risk of Mortality (ROM) assignments for Inpatient records and accurate APC assignments and all required modifiers for Complex Outpatient records.

Utilizes encoder software applications, which includes all applicable online tools and references in the assignment of International Classification of Diseases, 9th Revision, Clinical Modification (ICD-9-CM) diagnosis a...