Emergency Department Coder

At e4health, our vision is to empower better health for our clients, team, and the communities we serve. We maintain a strong focus on quality, client success, and team member growth. Serving more than 400 hospitals and health systems nationwide for nearly two decades, e4health provides solutions to tackle tough healthcare problems with unmatched technology, mid-revenue cycle, and operational expertise. Our solutions streamline clinical, financial, and health information workflows, optimize coding, quality, and clinical documentation integrity processes, and address health IT operational challenges.

The Emergency Department Coder is responsible for accurately abstracting data into client electronic medical record systems, following Official ICD-10-CM, CPT, and HCPCS Coding Guidelines, AMA CPT Guidelines, and CMS directives. Duties include data entry of abstracted patient information, querying physicians when appropriate, working with Clinical Documentation staff, and maintaining coding accuracy of 95% or better while meeting productivity standards.

Key duties:

• Assign appropriate ICD-10-CM, CPT, HCPCS codes and modifiers for facility-based ancillary, emergency department, observation, and outpatient surgery accounts.
• Abstract and enter coded data and charges for hospital reporting requirements.
• Query physicians to clarify conflicting or incomplete clinical information.
• Communicate documentation improvement opportunities and coding issues.
• Collaborate with Clinical Documentation Improvement and Revenue Cycle teams.
• Maintain coding credential requirements and productivity standards.

This is a remote, full-time position.

Requirements:

• Approved AHIMA or AAPC coding credential.
• Minimum 2 years coding experience.
• Trauma level 3 facility experience.
• Experience with both professional fee and facility coding and leveling.
• Experience with injections and infusions.
• Preferred experience with Alterra and 3M systems.

Attributes:

• High integrity, passion, and ethics.
• Strong collaboration, analytic and problem-solving skills.
• Initiative, drive for results, strong interpersonal and communication skills.
• Self-motivation, time management, and organizational skills.

Benefits include full benefits package with 401(k) match, medical, dental, vision, life, short/long term disability insurance, and PTO.