What are the responsibilities and job description for the Certified Coding Specialist/Auditor Team Lead position at Novant Health Urgent Care (Formerly Doctors Care)?
Title: Certified Coding Specialist/Auditor Team Lead
Location: Columbia, SC
Status: Full-Time
Who Are We?
Part of the Novant Health family based in North Carolina, Novant Health Urgent Care (formerly Doctors Care) provides exceptional healthcare through our network of more than 50 urgent care centers and 20 physical therapy facilities across South Carolina. Our Columbia-based headquarters delivers non-medical management and administrative services to support these locations. For decades, we have been committed to delivering exceptional, convenient, and affordable healthcare experiences to families and communities throughout the Palmetto State.
What Do We Offer?
Novant Health Urgent Cares is currently seeking a Certified Coding Specialist/Auditor Team Lead to join our team. The Certified Coding Specialist/Auditor Team Lead assists the Senior Certified Coding Auditor and Trainer with monitoring the overall performance/achieving daily goals of the Coding Team, provides education to new providers on medical coding and documentation requirements, conducts additional provider documentation audits as assigned, and participates in CDI projects to provide data and reports to management related to coding and claims for Doctors Care patient encounters, manages BVC and DCAIN encounter coding.
Job Duties:
A good candidate will bring with them:
Location: Columbia, SC
Status: Full-Time
Who Are We?
Part of the Novant Health family based in North Carolina, Novant Health Urgent Care (formerly Doctors Care) provides exceptional healthcare through our network of more than 50 urgent care centers and 20 physical therapy facilities across South Carolina. Our Columbia-based headquarters delivers non-medical management and administrative services to support these locations. For decades, we have been committed to delivering exceptional, convenient, and affordable healthcare experiences to families and communities throughout the Palmetto State.
What Do We Offer?
- Competitive wages
- Generous PTO that increases with tenure
- 403B
- Health, dental, vision insurance
- Flexible Spending Account
- Short term and Long term Disability
- Whole and Term Life Insurance
- Rewarding Careers
Novant Health Urgent Cares is currently seeking a Certified Coding Specialist/Auditor Team Lead to join our team. The Certified Coding Specialist/Auditor Team Lead assists the Senior Certified Coding Auditor and Trainer with monitoring the overall performance/achieving daily goals of the Coding Team, provides education to new providers on medical coding and documentation requirements, conducts additional provider documentation audits as assigned, and participates in CDI projects to provide data and reports to management related to coding and claims for Doctors Care patient encounters, manages BVC and DCAIN encounter coding.
Job Duties:
- Reviews and analyzes medical records to ensure accurate coding and billing.
- Assigns appropriate ICD-10, CPT, HCPCS and modifiers when coding.
- Stays updated on changes in medical coding guidelines and regulations.
- Works with supervisor on overall performance of Coding team.
- Conducts initial/30/60/90-day New Hire WebEx training sessions and audits with Doctors Care providers on medical coding and documentation requirements.
- Act as a liaison between the Coding/Billing team and DC providers.
- Reviews various processes related to coding for accuracy and identifies process improvements opportunities and reports findings of errors, inaccuracies and trends to supervisor.
- Assists with teaching and training of new Coding staff.
- Serves as back up and co-ordinates with supervisor to ensure all Coding Team objectives and daily goals are met.
- Other duties and responsibilities as assigned by supervisor.
A good candidate will bring with them:
- High School diploma or equivalent
- One (1) year coding experience post certification
- Medical Coding Certification from AHIMA or AAPC
- Knowledge of insurance filing, coding, collections and billing policies and procedures
- Knowledge of the ICD9/10-CM, HCPCS, and CPT-4/5 nomenclature, coding rules and guidelines
- Ability to properly sequence ICD-9/10-CM codes
- Advanced understanding of medical terminology and body systems/anatomy and physiology and concepts of disease
- Ability to elicit cooperation from and work in a cooperative manner with professionals and non-professional associates
- Dependable in both production and attendance
- Ability to adapt to new software programs
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent
- 3 years’ experience healthcare coding with certification
- Working knowledge of Cerner EMR