Medical Coder Educator - USFTGP UMSA RCO Back End
Tampa General Hospital
Location
Tampa, Florida
Quick overview
The Medical Coder Educator serves as a documentation reviewer and educator, providing coding literacy training to revenue cycle staff and medical professionals. They analyze review findings to identify documentation gaps and report recommendations to improve coding accuracy and compliance.
Requirements summary
Candidates must hold a High School Diploma or GED and possess a professional certification such as CPC, CCS-P, or CPMA. Proficiency in Microsoft Office tools and a strong understanding of healthcare policies, coding updates, and payer guidelines are required.
Job description
- Serves as the coding reviewer and documentation educator for USFTGP Revenue Cycle Operations.
- Collaborate extensively with compliance; utilizing approved coding industry tools and approved internal documentation.
- This position is responsible for providing coding literacy and awareness using adult methodologies to revenue cycle, coding professionals, department managers, medical staff and others, ensuring proficiency is accurate and within compliant coding practices for billing.
- Analyze and report review findings indicating documentation gaps reimbursement and data internation, inpatient, outpatient and professional service coded.
- Report to compliance focused areas of improvements, recommendations and actions taken to improve medical staff knowledge and coding accuracy.
- Conduct individual and group coding and documentation support instructions as assigned and acts as an internal coding expert resource.
Required
High School Diploma or GED Certification And/Or Certified Professional Coder (CPC) Or Certified Coding Specialist-Physician (CCS-P) Or Certified Medical Auditor (CPMA) Work Experience and
Additional Information
As the coding educator, it is essential to be proficient and comfortable working with Microsoft products such as Excel and Power Point. These tools are integral for creating organized literacy plans, delivering engaging presentations, and visualization, ensuring a well-rounded and effective learning experience. Understand healthcare policies and developments (including coding updates, payer guidelines, denial trends).