Coder

Join the transformative team at City of Hope, where we're changing lives and making a real difference in the fight against cancer, diabetes, and other life-threatening illnesses. City of Hope’s growing national system includes its Los Angeles campus, a network of clinical care locations across Southern California, a new cancer center in Orange County, California, and treatment facilities in Atlanta, Chicago and Phoenix. Our dedicated and compassionate employees are driven by a common mission: To deliver the cures of tomorrow to the people who need them today. 

Position Summary:

Under the supervision of the Coding Manager, Coding Supervisor, and Lead Coder, the Coder is responsible for following established procedures for the review, classification, and abstraction of clinical data from patients’ medical records regarding diseases, treatment given, and operative procedures for assignment of diagnostic and procedural codes and modifiers. This role abstracts and codes relevant data elements for a certain type of professional fee service area (i.e., Evaluation & Management, major and minor surgical procedure, radiologic service, pathologic service, ancillary service, radiation oncology, and/or infusion charges) for multi-specialty physicians. 

As a successful candidate, you will: 

• Reads and interprets medical record documentation to identify all diagnosis, conditions, problems and procedures for
• Evaluation & Management, surgical procedure, radiologic service, pathologic service, ancillary service, radiation oncology, and/or infusion charges.
• Clarifies conflicting, ambiguous, or non- specific information appearing in a medical record by consulting the appropriate physician.  
• Applies Official ICD-10-CM Guidelines to select first-listed diagnosis, primary procedure, complications, co-morbid conditions, other diagnoses and significant procedures which require coding.  
• Applies knowledge of ICD-10-CM and CPT-4 instructional notations and conventions to locate and assign the correct diagnostic and procedural codes and sequence them correctly.  
• Applies knowledge of current approved ICD-10-CM and CPT-4 coding guidelines to assign and sequence the correct diagnoses and procedure codes.  

Your qualifications should include: 

• Post High School or equivalent
• Two years of coding experience of professional fees (physician/medical office).  
• Thorough knowledge of medical terminology/anatomy/ physiology.  
  Comprehensive understanding of professional fee coding principles, including knowledge and proper application of assigning ICD and CPT codes, bundling, and modifiers based on regulatory guidelines.
  Current knowledge, training and experience in ICD-10.
• CPC, CCS-P, or CCS

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