Mindseeker is a leading healthcare professional services company focused on delivering HIM and Revenue Cycle Services, including outsourced medical coding, quality and compliance auditing, CDI, consulting, contracted interim management, and HIT staffing to health systems, hospitals, physician groups, and clinics nationwide. Mindseeker supports complex initiatives that demand extraordinary combinations of project management, technical competence and industry expertise.

Mindseeker currently has multiple immediate openings for Full-time Remote Inpatient (IP) Medical Coders with Level 1 Trauma experience to join our growing coding services team.

Essential Job Functions

• Utilize technical coding principals and MS-DRG reimbursement expertise to assign appropriate ICD-10-CM and/or ICD-10-PCS diagnoses and procedures.
• Responsible for accurately assigning present on admission (POA) values for inpatient diagnoses.
• Accurately capture MCC and CCs along with identifying hospital-acquired conditions (HACs) supported in physician documentation and reportable to corresponding quality committees.
• Verifies data and discharge disposition to assure coding compliance.
• Contact physicians and other health care professionals when needed or formulate appropriate physician queries for clarification about treatments or diagnostic tests given to patients for accurate code assignment and sequencing.
• Extract required information from source documentation and enter into encoder and abstracting system.
• Review daily pre-bill edits and coding errors to make corrections or complete missing data elements.
• Work collaboratively with HIM Staff and Clinical Documentation Improvement Specialists (CDIS) to ensure the most accurate and complete documentation to support accurate coding/billing.
• Efficiently utilize Coding software and HIMS to abstract required data from patient visits in the appropriate coding assignments and timely billing in accordance with DNFB goals and established hospital policy and procedures.
• Attend continuing education workshops, webinars, etc., for coding compliance and maintenance of CEUs.

Minimum Qualifications

• Candidates must have a minimum of 3 years Inpatient (IP) coding experience and must have CCS certification
• Meet coding productivity and accuracy requirements – 3 charts per hour/95% accuracy
• Candidates must have experience coding acute care Trauma/Teaching Level 1 Facility, Transplants – Kidney, Liver and Pancreas, Surgical Services including Gen Med Surg, Ortho, Cardiothoracic, Vascular, Bariatric, Gynecologic, Neurologic, Urologic, Colorectal, Behavioral Health, Gastroenterology, and Wound Care