Job Description
Job Summary and Responsibilities This job is responsible for the use of a system tool (currently Experian) to monitor, track, appeal and manage findings along with the denial team and payer strategies specific to underpayments from insurance companies. The incumbent will discern trends in complex streams of data and will find/seek solutions to issues affecting denials and/or reimbursement, inclusi
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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