Coding Specialist
Remote
Join us. Lets make a direct impact in healthcare.
Being an Iodine employee means becoming part of something bigger: using clinical AI technology to drive smarter healthcare processes and positively impact patient care.
Who we are:
Iodine is an enterprise AI company that is championing a radical rethink of how to create value for healthcare professionals, leaders, and their organizations: automating complex clinical tasks, generating insights and empowering intelligent care. Powered by one of the largest sets of clinical data and use cases available, our groundbreaking clinical machine-learning engine, Cognitive ML, constantly ingests the patient record to generate real-time, highly focused, predictive insights that clinicians and hospital administrators can leverage to dramatically augment the management of care delivery.
What were looking for:
Reporting to the Chief Clinical Strategist, the Coding Specialist is a member of the Customer Success organization who will provide coding subject matter expertise, insight and an active role to our clinical and business goals including product innovation and development.
What youll do:
Coding
- Research and develop inpatient coding criteria that identifies common areas of coding error or discrepancy
- Conduct coding and documentation audits to assess product compliance with coding guidelines and regulations.
- Identify areas for product improvement and provide recommendations for enhancing accuracy.
- Stay informed about industry updates on coding guidelines and materials to ensure product compliance and competitiveness.
- Collaborate with internal teams to understand the implications of coding and clinical documentation requirements on product development.
- Engage with client partners to assess coding practices and responsibilities that would impact product development.
- Research healthcare technology changes and trends affecting documentation and coding, guiding product development accordingly.
- Evaluate coding processes, systems, and documentation practices, implementing strategies to optimize product performance and efficiency.
- Design workflow processes to ensure efficiency and quality for users.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams, especially the clinical team, to ensure clinical and coding compliance and support organizational initiatives.
- Stay up-to-date with changes in coding regulations, guidelines, and industry trends.
- Prepare coding-related reports, analyses, and recommendations for product development and strategic decision-making.
Product
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams, serving as the coding subject matter expert
- Collaborate with Data Science to improve inputs to models
- Conduct and coordinate audits and quality checks of product capabilities
What wed love to see:
- Bachelor’s degree in Health Information Management (RHIA) or Bachelor degree in related field with appropriate coding certification
- Certification: PCC and/or CIC required, CPC preferred
- Experience in monitoring and assessing coding accuracy
- Experience managing a second level review process that identifies coding error or discrepancies
- Experience in developing new technology highly preferred
- 5+ years of inpatient coding experience required
- Experience in coding consulting role preferred
- Ability to travel 15-20% of the time
Please note this position is not restricted solely to the responsibilities listed above and that the job scope and responsibilities are subject to change.