Job Description

Nemours Children's Health is seeking a remote Professional Fee Abstractor

Assesses each professional session (i.e. claim) for all documented conditions and application of M.E.A.T. criteria (i.e. monitoring, evaluation, assessment, treatment) to accurately apply ICD 10 CM codes to capture diagnoses, evaluation & management CPT codes, procedure codes, HCPCS codes and modifier application per payer specific guidelines.

This is a remote position.

Applicants must reside in one of the following states: Alabama, Colorado, Delaware, the District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Maryland, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia.

Essential Functions:

1. Ability to comprehend medical record documentation to assign codes for each active session, in multiple specialties. (i.e. Codes assigned by provider are evaluated and modified with the approval of the provider)
2. Codes a minimum of 60-100 sessions per shift. The number of lines per session varies, therefore, “Coding Required” sessions are completed daily.
3. Works collaboratively in a team setting with providers, allied health staff, business office staff throughout the enterprise to achieve accurately coded 1500 claims.
4. Analyzes high-risk encounters for accurate charge capture and makes recommendation before transferring to second level review work queues.
5. Facilitates modifications to clinical documentation to ensure that information captured supports the level of service rendered, with attention towards chronic conditions, hierarchical condition categories (HCC) and risk adjustment factors (RAF).
6. Understands complexity of billing requirements and incorporates payer specific trends into day-to-day reviews to reduce “take backs” associated with un-clear, nonspecific, or un-substantiated care rendered.
7. Crossover coding is expected to help in any and all professional sessions (as assigned) using written reliable methods which identifies standard work requirements by session type.
8. Communicates with providers directly for clarification or gaps in documentation prior to submitting the session to assign the code(s) which fit services rendered.
9. Maintains production and accuracy objectives (i.e. metrics) identified annually.

Qualifications:

• CPC, CCS-P, RHIA, or RHIT required. CRC, CEMC preferred
• 3-5 years coding experience
• Medical Terminology and Anatomy and Physiology preferred

• High School Diploma Required. Associate's preferred

Nemours Children’s Health is an internationally recognized children’s health system. With more than 1.7 million patient encounters annually, we provide medical care in five states through two freestanding state-of-the-art children’s hospitals — Nemours Children’s Hospital, Delaware and Nemours Children’s Hospital, Florida. Our pediatric network includes 80 primary-urgent-and specialty care practices and more than 40 hospitalists serving 19 affiliated hospitals. We generate annual revenues of more than $1.7 billion derived from patient services, contributions from the Alfred I. duPont Trust, as well as other income.

As one of the nation's premier pediatric health systems, we’re on a journey to discover better ways of approaching children’s health. Putting as much focus on prevention as cures and working hand in hand with the community to make every child’s world a place to thrive. It’s a journey that extends beyond our nationally recognized clinical treatment to an entire integrated spectrum of research, advocacy, education, and prevention, leading to the healthiest generations of children ever.

Inclusion and belonging guide our growth and strategy. We are looking for individuals who are passionate about, and committed to, leading efforts to provide culturally relevant care, reducing health disparities, and helping build an inclusive and supportive environment. All of our associates are expected to ensure that these philosophies are embedded in their day-to-day work with colleagues, patients and families.

To learn more about Nemours Children’s and how we go well beyond medicine, visit us at www.nemours.org