Medical Record Specialist

    Highlights

    Medical Record Specialists process coding edits and denials, follow up of unbilled accounts, provide transcriptionist assistance and support, monitor and follow-up H&P and OR completion, report, department supply inventory, equipment maintenance and issues, ongoing record review database and reports, FormFast software system and medical record document processing, and ordering of subscriptions and resource materials. Interacts with medical staff, nursing, ancillary departments, provider offices, and outside organizations.

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    Medical Record Specialist

    Job Description

    Medical Record Specialists process coding edits and denials, follow up of unbilled accounts, provide transcriptionist assistance and support, monitor and follow-up H&P and OR completion, report, department supply inventory, equipment maintenance and issues, ongoing record review database and reports, FormFast software system and medical record document processing, and ordering of subscriptions and resource materials. Interacts with medical staff, nursing, ancillary departments, provider offices, and outside organizations. Also, responsible for the understanding of the contents of a medical record and the principles of releasing health care information. Processes requests for release of health information, while safeguarding the privacy of the patient. Interacts with medical staff, nursing, ancillary departments, provider offices, and outside organizations.


    *Release of information focus!*


    Department: Medical Records

    Hours: Full time, 40 hours/week

    Shift: 1st

    Required: High School Diploma

    Pay: Based on experience, starting at $16.94

    Location: Onsite in Mattoon

    Responsibilities

    Answer phone lines and
    follow-up requests for
    transcription area., Assists with workload
    distribution as needed., Correct radiology report based
    on questions to Radiologist in
    regards to dictation
    discrepancies. Corrections are
    made in the Radiology DR
    system and Meditech system.
    Correct Transcriptionist
    mistakes on hospital reports in
    EMON and Meditech system.
    This involves errors found
    after a physician has signed a report., Distribution of reports to non-
    SBL providers includes faxing,
    mailing, and SBL doctor boxes., Faxes Provider offices for
    diagnoses that are missing for
    tests ordered and for Medical
    Necessity diagnoses., Handles equipment issues as needed., Maintains department supply inventory., Maintains Medical Necessity
    spreadsheet of tests ordered
    by the providers in which a
    Medically Necessary diagnosis
    is not provided. This
    spreadsheet is used to educate the Providers., Monitor pending file in EMON., Orders all subscriptions and
    resource materials for coding
    and other operations in MRM., Processes coding denials
    received from
    Medicare/Medicaid and applicable payers., Processes the NEBO Report by
    looking for OCE and Medical
    Necessity errors and notifying
    the appropriate
    staff/department’s for
    correction. Tracks the
    information on a spreadsheet and does follow-up., request Processes patient portal
    requests and answers
    customer questions., Responsible for copy machine maintenance., Responsible for the FormFast
    software system, which
    houses all the medical record
    documents., Responsible for the Ongoing
    Record Review database with updates/revisions., Responsible for the report
    creation based on the Ongoing
    Record Review by Ongoing
    Record Review Team.

    Requirements

    High School (Required)

    Compensation

    Estimated Compensation Range

    $16.94 - $26.26

    Pay based on experience

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