Denial Coding Coordinator

Job Description

Job Description

Responsibilities

Artificial Intelligence; Advanced Technology; The very best in patient care. With decades of expertise, RadNet is Leading Radiology Forward . With dynamic cross-training and advancement opportunities in a team-focused environment, the core of RadNet’s success is its people with the commitment to a better healthcare experience. When you join RadNet as our Denial Coding Coordinator , you will be joining a dedicated team of professionals who deliver quality, value, and access in the 21st century and align all stakeholders- patients, providers, payors, and regulators achieve the best clinical outcomes.

JOB SUMMARY

The Denial Coding Coordinator is a subject matter expert (SME) for the Denial Coding Team. As the SME for the team this role is responsible for coordinating workflows and assignments, and completing daily summary reports for the team’s operational metrics. This role is responsible for training and coaching new team members to ensure charges are accurately and compliantly reflected on claims submitted to payors for adjudication following all payor coding guidelines and within appeal timeframe. The Denial Coding Coordinator will be an active participant in meetings relevant to ensuring compliant processing of all denials timely. This role will be expected to meet operational metrics for processing charges with coding related denials and coding reviews requested.

You will :

• Maintains consistent daily workflow; create efficiency, improve process and identify and implement best practices.
• Engage, coach and train new team members to ensure the achievement of Company, RCO, and individual goals.
• Lead or participate in the development of appropriate workflows, processes, and training materials.
• Prepare, analyze and complete detailed daily and monthly summary reports of operational metrics. Respond proactively to trends of diminished performance, both individual and team.
• Determines “root cause” of coding denials. Updates documentation on patient accounts for tracking purposes. Assists with trending controllable denials. Ensure all team members are documenting according to standard operating procedures.
• Identifies payor related coding issues, and communicates through appropriate channels with specific details so issues can be reported during meetings with the managed care provider relations teams.
• Interacts with external business partners and associated teams to provide feedback on coding and payer guidelines ensuring productivity and accuracy standards are met successfully.

If You Are :

Ideal Candidate will possess :