Coding Educator

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The Coding Educator is responsible for administering medical coding training modules according to approved curricula . They are also responsible for ensuring that trainees are able to successfully apply their learning in an operations
environment, audit the work of newly-trained employees, and respond to coding questions escalated by the coding operations team . They are expected to abide by the Standards of Ethical Coding as set forth by AHIMA.

What You'll Do:

• Administer approved medical coding training modules
• Regular monthly and quarterly education to operations coding teams
• Ad hoc education based on results of individual and team audits
• Quality Audits: Performs quality checking (concurrent and retrospective) of live coding output of trainees after
• Application of agreed scoring system to assess accuracy of applied codes.
• Coding Queries: Responds to coding queries escalated by coding operations team to facilitate quality output.
• Auditing Productivity: Meets and/or exceeds auditing productivity benchmarks (charts per hour)
• Professional Development: Stays current with AHA Official Coding and Reporting Guidelines, CMS, and other agency directives for ICD-10-CM and CPT coding.
• Attends mandatory coding seminars on an annual basis
  (OPPS, ICD-10-CM and CPT updates) for inpatient and outpatient coding.
• Quarterly review of AHA Coding Clinic.
• Attends Quarterly Coding Updates and all coding conference calls.
• Communicates and resolves training and auditing issues (red flag for training outliers, audit quality outliers) for
  appropriate follow-up and resolution
• Other duties as assigned

Requirements

• High School graduate or equivalent required. Completion of basic coding course (academic, seminar, workshop or facility-based), including: medical terminology and basic anatomy and physiology.
• Five years of experience performing medical record coding in acute care setting, and one year of experience in performing either coding quality audits or medical coder training.

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