Coder 2

Fairview is seeking a Coder 2 to join our team. This is a full-time, benefit-eligible position (80 hours per pay period) offering the opportunity to work within a collaborative and supportive coding environment. The role includes a weekend rotation requiring one Saturday shift per month; when scheduled to work a Saturday, you will receive a weekday off (Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday) during the same week.

This position provides flexibility in where work is performed following training and departmental expectations, while remaining closely connected to the coding team and organizational operations. The ideal candidate will have coding experience across Hospital Billing (HB), Professional Billing (PB), and Emergency Department (ED) accounts, along with a strong understanding of ICD-10-CM, CPT, and HCPCS coding guidelines. Candidates should possess excellent attention to detail, coding accuracy, and a commitment to maintaining compliance with coding, documentation, and regulatory standards.

The Coder 2 analyzes clinical documentation; assign appropriate diagnosis, procedure, and levels of service codes; abstract the codes and other clinical data. Performs a variety of technical functions within the Outpatient coding area, codes outpatient visits, sent-in-labs, consolidated funding accounts, utilizing ICD-10-CM, CPT-4, and HCPCs Coding Classification systems. Utilizes an electronic coding software to code to the highest level of specificity, ensuring optimal and appropriate reimbursement for the services provided. Responsibility includes resolving medical necessity edits and extracting and entering data into the medical record. This information is then used to determine reimbursement levels, assess quality of care, study patterns of illness and injuries, compare healthcare data between facilities and between physicians, and meet regulatory and payer reporting requirements. Coder 2's also resolves clinical documentation and charge capture discrepancies and provides feedback to providers on the quality of their documentation and charging. 

Responsibilities

• Maintains knowledge of, and complies with, all relevant laws, regulations, policies, procedures, and standards.
• Actively participates in creating and implementing improvements.
• Assigns ICD-10, CPT-4, and HCPCs codes to all diagnoses, treatments, and procedures, according to official coding guidelines.
• Knowledge of relationship of disease management, medications and ancillary test results on diagnoses assigned.
• Extracts required information from electronic medical record and enters encoder and abstracting system.
• Follows-up on unabstracted accounts to assure timely billing and reimbursement.
• Resolves any questions concerning diagnosis, procedures, clinical content of the chart or code selection through research and communication. May query physicians on documentation according to established procedures and guidelines.
• Meets departmental productivity and quality standards
• Complete projects as assigned.
• Timely and accurate work
• Contributes to the process or enablement of collecting expected payment
• Understands and adheres to Revenue Cycle’s Escalation Policy.

Required Qualifications

• Certificate program in Coding or A.A./A.S. in HIM or Certificate with 1-3 years of healthcare experience (MA, HUC, Revenue Cycle)
• 1 year of coding experience
• Basic knowledge of Windows-based computer software. Epic and Microsoft Teams.
• Registered Health Info Admin (RHIA) or Registered Health Info Tech (RHIT) or Certified Coding Specialist (CCS) or Professional Coder Cert (CPC) or Certified Coding Specialist – Professional (CCS-P) or Professional Coder- Hospital (CPC-H) or Certified Outpatient Coding (COC) or AAPC specialty certifications

Preferred Qualifications

• B.S./B.A. in HIM
• 2 years of coding experience