Job Description
Position Summary Segment HR is recruiting six (6) experienced Medical Coders to provide remote inpatient and outpatient coding support for the Captain James A. Lovell Federal Health Care Center and its affiliated clinics. The selected coders will review complete electronic medical records, assign and validate accurate diagnosis and procedure codes, identify incomplete or conflicting documentation,
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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