Job Description
Medical Record Specialist to assist with Maintaining medical record integrity through filing, assembling, analysis and retrieving confidential patient records. ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS: · Prepare and assemble medical records. · Organize and analyze medical records for accuracy and completeness. · Identify, track and enter practitioner deficiencies in Medhost. · Pull charts as requested for audits, peer
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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