HIM Clerk

Primary City/State: John C Lincoln - 250 E Dunlap Ave, Phoenix, AZ 85020

Category: Administrative Support

Shift: Day

Department: Health Information Management

Position is working on-site; Monday–Friday, 8:00 AM to 4:30 PM.

HonorHealth John C. Lincoln Medical Center in the Medical Records Office.

Job Summary

Organizes and evaluates patient medical records. Reviews medical records for accuracy and completeness. Responsible for updating, filing, and retrieving medical records.

Essential Functions

• Plan, develop, maintain, or operate a variety of health record indexes or storage and retrieval systems to collect, classify, store, or analyze information.
• Process, maintain, compile, and report patient information for health requirements and standards in a manner consistent with the network's numerical coding system.
• Organize and evaluate patient medical records. Review medical records for accuracy and completeness. Responsible for scanning and retrieving medical records.
• Protect the security of medical records to ensure confidentiality is maintained and adhere to professional standards, hospital policies and procedures, and federal, state, and local requirements.
• Release information to persons or agencies according to regulations.
• Maintain effective communication with others inside and outside the department to give or obtain needed information.
• Retrieve patient medical records for physicians, technicians, or other medical personnel.
• Resolve or clarify codes or diagnoses with conflicting, missing, or unclear information by consulting with doctors and other medical staff and team members.