Encodes diagnoses and procedures using the International Classification of Diseases (ICD) coding system, abstracts patient information into a database, understands health insurance policies, reviews electronic statements for accuracy, assigns appropriate codes, ensures thorough documentation for coding accuracy, applies guidelines for billing purposes, tracking approvals for necessary services, confirming billed services align with insurer approvals, reviewing and seeking clarifications for repeated services, addressing coding edits, estimating costs for self-pay patients, sending physician queries, maintaining daily productivity, and ensuring timely closure and dispatch of insurance, corporate, and self-pay batches.

Responsibilities

• Encodes all relevant, current, and documented diagnoses and procedures as performed by attending physicians utilizing the appropriate International Classification of Diseases (ICD) coding.
• Creates an abstract of all ...