Join our team as a Medical Record Specialist in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Our 94-bed treatment center provides psychiatric and addiction services to individuals of all ages.
Purpose of the role: assist with maintaining medical record integrity through filing, assembling, analyzing, and retrieving confidential patient records.
Essential duties
- Prepare and assemble medical records.
- Organize and analyze records for accuracy and completeness.
- Identify, track, and enter practitioner deficiencies in Medhost.
- Pull charts for audits, peer review, readmissions, and HBIPS processing, and route them to the appropriate area or department.
- Ensure files are stored according to established storage procedures.
- Maintain and search computerized medical records.
- Maintain chart control, access, and storage in accordance with policies, procedures, and regulations.
- Process medical records requests according to policy and procedure.
- Scan records to contract coders for processing when applicable.
- Assist with HIM department audits, including HBIPS, CMS Quality Measures, and concurrent reviews.
- Pick up discharge records from patient units.
- Assemble new admission folders when applicable.
- Print and deliver medical records forms to patient units.
- Search and print dictated reports from the computerized transcription system.
- Purge and inventory medical records for off-site storage.
- Promote quality improvement, staff and patient safety, and cultural diversity through department operations and personal performance.
Requirements & Qualifications
Qualifications
- High school diploma or equivalent required.
- Three or more years of experience in a psychiatric setting, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
- RHIT or RHIA preferred.
Benefits & Perks
Benefits and perks
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Health Savings Account (HSA) and Flexible Spending Account (FSA) options
- Company-paid basic life and AD&D insurance
- Disability benefits
- 401(k) retirement plan with company match
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Employee discount program
- Paid holidays
- Paid time off (PTO)
- Tuition reimbursement opportunities
Location
Tennessee, US
Employment Type
Full-time
Experience Level
Intermediate Level
Remote work allowed
No
Posted
3 weeks ago