Coder, Outpatient

Welcome to Ovation Healthcare! At Ovation Healthcare, we’ve been making local healthcare better for more than 40 years. Our mission is to strengthen independent community healthcare. We provide independent hospitals and health systems with the support, guidance and tech-enabled shared services needed to remain strong and viable. With a strong sense of purpose and commitment to operating excellence, we help rural healthcare providers fulfill their missions. The Ovation Healthcare difference is the extraordinary combination of operations experience and consulting guidance that fulfills our mission of creating a sustainable future for healthcare organizations. Ovation Healthcare's vision is to be a dynamic, integrated professional services company delivering innovative and executable solutions through experience and thought leadership, while valuing trust, respect, and customer focused behavior. We’re looking for talented, motivated professionals with a desire to help independent hospitals thrive. Working with Ovation Healthcare you will have the opportunity to collaborate with highly skilled subject matter specialists and operations executives, in a collegial atmosphere of professionalism and teamwork. Ovation Healthcare's corporate headquarters is located in Brentwood, TN. For more information, visit https://ovationhc.com. Summary: Amplify, an Ovation Healthcare company is seeking a same day surgery coder with at least three years of experience. The SDS coder is responsible for reviewing medical records for outpatient, or same day, surgical procedures, and assigning appropriate diagnostic and procedural codes (CPT and ICD-10) to ensure accurate billing and reimbursement. Duties and Responsibilities: Apply appropriate coding classification standards and guidelines to medical record documentation for accurate coding. Submit necessary provider queries to resolve documentation discrepancies. Perform quality assessment of records, including verification of medical record documentation. Review appropriate charges and make changes or recommendations based on the documentation. Responsible for researching errors or missing documentation from medical records to provide accurate coding processes. Abstracts and assigns the appropriate ICD-10-CM and CPT codes for all diagnoses and procedures performed in the outpatient and surgical settings as applicable. Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities: Must have facility outpatient surgery and observation experience and ideally be exposed to observation hours, injections, anesthesia, and infusion code assignment. Must be able to pass a coding assessment. Must be proficient in Microsoft Office, including Outlook, Excel, and Teams. Ability to multi-task and have excellent communication skills. Must meet and maintain a 95% quality accuracy rate and productivity standards. Must be able to apply official coding guidelines, NCCI edits, CPT Assistants, and Coding Clinics. Must have experience working in a remote environment. Work Experience, Education, and Certifications: AHIMA/AAPC Credentials Required. Five or more years of Auditing experience. Physician surgery coding experience preferred. Ovation will never contact applicants via Chatwork or any other messaging platform outside of our official channels. If you receive any communication claiming to be from Ovation through Chatwork or any unauthorized platform, please disregard it and report it to us immediately. Our official communication will always come from our company email domain or through recognized professional channels like LinkedIn. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the authenticity of a communication, please contact us directly at communications@ovationhc.com for verification. Headquartered in Brentwood, Tenn., Ovation Healthcare partners with 220 hospitals and health systems across 40 states. For 45 years, Ovation Healthcare has supported hospitals and health systems through a portfolio of shared services – Octave Advisory Services, Elevate Supply and Expense Management Solutions, Amplify Revenue Cycle Management, Forte Professional Solutions, and Cadence Clinical Services– designed to provide scale and efficiency to hospital business operations.