Medical Coding Educator

POSITION SUMMARY

As a part of the Tenet and Catholic Health Initiatives family, Conifer Health brings 30 years of healthcare industry expertise to clients in more than 135 local regions nationwide. We help our clients strengthen their financial and clinical performance, serve their communities and succeed at the business of healthcare. Conifer Health helps organizations transition from volume to value-based care, enhance the consumer and patient healthcare experience and improve quality, cost and access to healthcare. Are you ready to be part of our solutions Welcome to the company that gives you the resources and incentives to redefine healthcare services, with a competitive benefits package and leadership to take your career to the next step!

The Coding Educator is responsible for administering medical coding training modules according to approved Conifer 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.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Beginning with the most important, briefly state the major duties and responsibilities of this job, percent of total job and frequency of each activity.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, ABILITIES

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The list below are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

The following responsibilities and duties [45%]:

• Training: Administers Conifer-approved medical coding training modules as part of the Conifer Coding University.
• COC, CPC, specialty coding classes
• 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
• they graduate from training programs. Quality audits include documentation of coding errors/issues and
• 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.
• Target is to respond within 1 business day.
• Goal: Average training pass rate of =>90% pass rate per batch. (The pass rate is the number of trainees who passed training divided by the number of overall trainees. This is a measure of the Coding Educator success as a trainer.)
• Does not meet =<90% pass rate
• Meets => 90% pass rate
• Exceeds =>90% pass rate
• Auditing Productivity: Meets and/or exceeds Conifer¶s auditing productivity benchmarks (charts per hour). [40%]
• 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. [10%]
• Communicates and resolves training and auditing issues (red flag for training outliers, audit quality outliers) for appropriate follow-up and resolution [5%] Other duties as assigned

Required Certifications/Licensure:

• Coder Certification from AHIMA or AAPC such as CCS, CIC, CPC

Working Conditions:

• Amenable to work onsite in BGC
• Willing to work in a dayshift schedule

Company Benefits:

• Competitive Salary
• HMO with 2 free dependents
• Group life insurance
• PTO Credits
• Annual Appraisal
• Annual Performance Bonus