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Atrium Health Physician Coding Liaison II - Cardiothoracic in Charlotte, North Carolina
Atrium Health – Charlotte, NC
About Atrium Health:
Atrium Health is a nationally recognized leader in shaping health, delivering world-class care, and transforming the communities we serve. We bring together world-class physicians, cutting-edge research, and innovative technology to provide compassionate, personalized care for every stage of life. Join our team and be a part of a mission-driven organization dedicated to improving health, elevating hope, and advancing healing – for all.
Job Summary:
Atrium Health is seeking a highly motivated and detail-oriented Physician Coding Liaison to join our dynamic team. The Physician Coding Liaison will serve as a critical link between physicians, coding teams, and revenue cycle departments, ensuring accurate and compliant coding practices. This role will involve providing education, conducting audits, and resolving coding-related inquiries to optimize revenue integrity and minimize compliance risks.
Salary: $28.05-$42.10
Accepting applications from candidates residing in these states: AL, CO, FL, GA, ID, KS, KY, ME, MI, NC, SC, VA, VT
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Compensation
Base compensation listed within the listed pay range based on factors such as qualifications, skills, relevant experience, and/or training
Premium pay such as shift, on call, and more based on a teammate's job
Incentive pay for select positions
Opportunity for annual increases based on performance
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Paid Time Off programs
Health and welfare benefits such as medical, dental, vision, life, and Short- and Long-Term Disability
Flexible Spending Accounts for eligible health care and dependent care expenses
Family benefits such as adoption assistance and paid parental leave
Defined contribution retirement plans with employer match and other financial wellness programs
Educational Assistance Program
Job Summary
Serves as the system-wide key contact for service line/specialty specific coding and proactively educates coding/documentation guidelines and/or concepts within a specific specialty. Collaborates with Chief Medical Officer (CMO), Senior director administrators, Production and Department support leaders for problem resolution and/or trends in payer specific rules/coverage. Educates Physicians, Advanced Practice Providers (APPs), Medical Group and Clinic Leadership to improve coding and documentation. Knowledge sharing with Patient Service Area (PSA) Liaisons, Production Coding, and Department Support to improve coding, documentation, and charge capture opportunities. Due to the system-wide service line/specialty specific support, the PCL Spec role is virtual. Note: For purposes of this document, the term Clinicians represents all billing providers.
Essential Functions
• Provides service line/specialty specific coding/documentation education and feedback related to coding changes (CPT including E&M, modifiers, ICD-10-CM, and HCPCS), annual code updates, payer requirements, and payer rejection resolution to assigned Physicians/APPs. Partners with CMOs to standardize coding processes across a specific specialty. Shares and/or presents coding/documentation education presentations to Chief Medical Officers (CMOs), Physicians/APPs, Senior Director Administrators across the organization. Coordinates with PSA Liaisons to provide adequate Physician/APP and/or clinical team member support.
• Conducts orientations for all Physicians/APPs, residents/students and clinical team members on specialty specific coding and documentation related education. Performs new clinician documentation reviews for specialty specific coding, and documentation feedback, as requested.
• Coordinates responses to Physicians/APPs, Locum Tenens, residents/student’s questions and feedback from various sources and partners, including Senior director administrators, CMOs, Medical Group Compliance, Internal Audit, Physician Compensation, Clinical Informatics/Clinical Informatics Educators, Quality Improvement Coordinators, and/or other external partners.
• Queries Physician/APP, Locum Tenens, residents/students when prompted by Professional Coding Department production coders to assist in resolving coding and documentation questions. Relays any coding changes, feedback, and education to Physician/APP, Locum Tenens, residents/students and/or clinic leadership, as appropriate.
• Monitors and works to resolve charge sessions requiring additional information for assigned clinicians and/or service line/specialty in the Epic work queues and/or other transfer work queues to ensure Clinicians are completing work timely to ensure proper supporting documentation for billing and timely filing.
• Attends and provides service line/specialty specific coding and documentation information, as requested, to CMOs, Physicians/APPs and/or Clinic/Site Department meetings. These may be virtually and/or in-person. Virtually attends Physician/APP education that include coding and/or documentation topics, such as Documentation Specialist clinician low risk review meetings, Risk Adjustment/HCC meetings, and/or Medical Group Compliance reviews/meetings.
• Collaborates with PSA Liaison to review and provide coding/documentation guidance on Epic order entry, diagnosis, and charge capture preference lists as well as SmartSets and templates.
• Develops Physician/APP monthly service line/specialty newsletters to continually educate and communicate updates from various coding resources including specialty society organizations. Communicates new services performed by Physician/APPs to Professional Coding department leadership.
• Identifies service line/specialty specific trending data and opportunities to capture revenue through documentation improvement. Attends service line/specialty specific coding and/or society conferences, as requested, to gain further knowledge that is uniquely relevant to that specialty and how coding, documentation, and billing are affected. Maintains expert knowledge of Medicare, Medicaid, and other regulatory requirements pertaining to nationally accepted coding policies and standards
Education, Experience and Certifications
License/Registration/Certification: Coding Associate (CCA) certification, or Coding Specialist - Physician (CCS-P) certification, or Health Information Administrator (RHIA) registration or Health Information Technician (RHIT) registration, or Professional Coder (CPC) certification, or Specialty Coding Professional (SCP) certification, and Specialty Medical Coding Certification obtained within 1 year.
Issued by (Governing Body): American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA), American Academy of Professional Coders (AAPP), or Board of Medical Specialty Coding and Compliance (BMSC)
Level of Education: Advanced training beyond High School that includes the completion of an accredited or approved program in Medical Coding Specialist.
Field of Study (if applicable): Medical coding or other related health field.
Years of Experience: Typically requires 5 years of experience in advanced-level professional coding and at least 3 years of experience educating/training licensed clinicians.
Describe Type Experience: Typically requires 5 years of experience in advanced-level professional coding and at least 3 years of experience educating/training licensed clinicians.
Atrium Health is one of the nation’s leading healthcare organizations, connecting patients with on-demand care, world-class specialists and the region’s largest primary care network. A recognized leader in healthcare delivery, quality and innovation, our foundation rests on providing clinically excellent and compassionate care.
We’ve been serving our community since 1940, when we opened our doors as Charlotte Memorial Hospital. Since then, our network has grown to include more than 40 hospitals and 900 care locations ranging from doctors’ offices to behavioral health centers to nursing homes.
Our focus: Delivering the highest quality patient care, supporting medical research and education, and joining with partners outside our walls to keep our community healthy.