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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