Job Description
Position Summary The Clinical Appeals Coordinator works in collaboration with the team of clinicians, coding professionals, physicians and HIM members to increase the team’s program awareness, process and program benefits with the goal of decreasing denials, enhancing performance and increasing reimbursement for the health system. This person is a liaison for all government and commercial payer ap
8:00 AM
Coders start the day by pulling their assigned chart queue. In a hospital setting, an inpatient coder might work 15–25 charts per…
8:30 AM
Open the first chart. Read the operative report, discharge summary, and physician notes. Assign the principal diagnosis code (the…
10:30 AM
Encounter a complex chart — a patient with multiple comorbidities and a surgical complication. You spend extra time to capture eve…
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