Coder - PRN - Req# 2080671417 bei Astria Health

About Astria

The Astria Health system, headquartered in the heart of the state of Washington’s wine country in the beautiful Yakima Valley, is the largest non-profit healthcare system based in Eastern Washington. Astria Health is the parent non-profit organization of Astria Sunnyside Hospital and Astria Toppenish Hospital and delivers care throughout the Valley through its Astria Health Hospitals and its Astria Ambulatory Care model focused on delivering the highest level of ambulatory and outpatient care in convenient locations in both the Lower and Upper Yakima Valley. Astria Ambulatory Care is designed to meet the changing lifestyles and diverse needs of those living and working throughout the region.

Across our healthcare network, you will find a dynamic range of meaningful careers and opportunities for growth and safe workplaces. Whether we use our expertise in accounting, human resources, finance, planning, marketing, or our clinical services in any of our operational divisions, our shared passion for providing exceptional healthcare to our communities motivates us to achieve excellence each day. If you share our passion, we want to hear from you.  

Our operating principles define how we come together as a team to do our work. They reflect Astria Health’s unique view on what’s important and right - being a leader in providing innovative, exceptional rural healthcare solutions with kindness and dignity. Documenting this core aspect of our culture helps employees make good decisions independently, cultivate trust through accountability, and go beyond the expected. We believe in continuously escalating the bar for talent and performance because we are obsessed with a commitment to excellence and patient care. It also helps candidates consider career opportunities and evaluate whether they will thrive at Astria Health.

Astria Health is seeking a Coder to join our team! This is a Per Diem position.

Shift: Monday - Friday, PRN

What you get to do every day!

As the Coder, you will  manage high quality, timely coding of diagnosis and procedures for inpatient and outpatient accounts, using ICD-10, CPT-4 and HSPCS classification systems. You will:

• Query physicians when code assignments are not straightforward or documentation in the record is inadequate, ambiguous, or unclear, to ensure the codes are to the highest degree of specificity
• Complies with the Standards of Ethical Coding as set forth by the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) and adheres to official guidelines.
• Maintains and achieves departmental standards of coding quality by assigning accurate ICD-10-CM/ICD-10-PCS and CPT codes and APC assignment utilizing an electronic encoder application.
• Analyzes, codes and sequences diagnosis and procedures codes utilizing coding guidelines
• Serve as resource and subject matter expert to other coding staff, physicians and other hospital staff
• Reviews and verifies documentation supports diagnoses, procedures and treatment results
• Assists in orienting, training, and mentoring staff new staff
• Performs other duties as assigned.                                                               
• Collaborate effectively across organizational boundaries.
• Adheres to the core values and standards of the organization.