Travel Clinical Educator

About This Role

Perform internal quality assessments on medical coders and coordinate day-to-day coding educational activities within a healthcare setting. This role ensures compliance with national coding guidelines and OUH policies for accurate and consistent coding, improving accuracy and integrity of patient data.

Responsibilities

• Perform internal quality assessment reviews on OUH coders to ensure compliance with national coding guidelines and OUH coding policies for accurate and consistent coding
• Coordinate and direct day-to-day coding educational activities
• Facilitate and provide coding educational classes/presentations to staff as needed
• Communicate outcomes to improve accuracy, integrity, and quality of patient data and physician documentation
• Assist Coding Leadership in root cause analysis of coding quality issues, perform account reviews, and prepare training documents
• Respond to coding-related questions from HSC coding staff
• Lead and perform all functions of quality reviews for inpatient and outpatient coding across OUMS
• Provide Coding Integrity Specialist (CIS) and CQR education as needed
• Monitor QA results to assist Coding Leadership in root cause analysis and educational opportunities
• Coaches and mentors coding staff to develop coding skills and provides skilled coding support

Requirements

• High School graduate or GED equivalent
• Minimum of 5 years acute care inpatient/outpatient coding experience
• RHIA, RHIT, CCS, or CPC certification
• Expert level knowledge of medical coding practices and concepts
• Extensive regulatory coding (ICD-10-CM, ICD-10-PCS, CPT-4, Modifiers, MS-DRGs, POA assignment, APR-DRGs, APCs) and reimbursement knowledge
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office

Qualifications

• High School graduate or GED equivalent required; undergraduate degree in HIM/HIT preferred.
• Minimum of 5 years acute care inpatient/outpatient coding experience required. Minimum of 3 years coding auditing/monitoring experience strongly preferred. Proven work experience in areas of coding education strongly preferred.

Nice to Have

• Undergraduate degree in HIM/HIT
• Minimum of 3 years coding auditing/monitoring experience
• Proven work experience in coding education

Skills

* Required skills

Certifications