What are the responsibilities and job description for the Medical Coder position at Astrana Health?
Department: Billing - SoCal
Location: 1668 S. Garfield Ave. 2nd Floor, Alhambra, CA 91801
Compensation: $22.00 - $26.00 / hour
Astrana Health is currently seeking a highly motivated Medical Coder. This role will report to our Director - Revenue Cycle and enable us to continue to scale in the healthcare industry.
Our Values:
• Patients First
• Empowering the Independent Provider
• Be Innovative
• Operate with Integrity & Deliver Excellence
• Team of One
What You'll Do
- Extract diagnosis codes (specifically HCC codes) and CPT codes from hospital records.
- Reviews medical records to determine if specific disease conditions were correctly reported based on documentation.
- Follow the coding guidelines
- Ensures project activities are in compliance with applicable coding guidelines, government and federal regulations.
- Regularly and consistently meet quality and productivity standards established by management
- Maintain ongoing communication with management regarding coding workload, turnaround time expectations and deliverables. • Additional duties as necessary to meet the obligations to our providers
- Maintains at least 95% accuracy in all coding projects by researching literature and attending professional seminars, workshops and conference as required by AAPC and/or AHIMA to maintain professional certification(s).
- Have a current coding certification (CPC, CRC, CCS) through AAPC and/or AHIMA
- Minimum of 2-3 years coding experience
- Have risk adjustment experience
- Additional experience with specific knowledge of HCC preferred
- Our organization follows a hybrid work structure where the expectation is to work both in office and at home on a weekly basis. The office is located at 1680 S Garfield Avenue, Alhambra, CA 91801
- The total compensation target pay rate for this role is: $22.00 - $25.00/hr. The pay range represents our national target range for this role.
Salary : $22 - $26