Job Duties and Responsibilities:

The Senior Coding Specialist will be a Radiation Oncology coder that requires either an existing ROCC certification or RadOnc coding experience and willingness to certify in ROCC.

- Responsible for assigning diagnostic and procedural codes to encounters of high complexity.
- 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 in accordance with hospital policy and regulatory
body guidelines.
- Maintains and achieves departmental standards of abstracting quality by reviewing the discharge disposition entered by
nursing and corrects if necessary in order to achieve the highest quality of entered data. Assigns and enters physician
identification number and procedure date correctly in the medical record abstracting system.
- Reviews medical record documentation and abstracts data into the encoder and Electronic Health Record (EHR) to
determine principal or final diagnosis, co-morbid conditions and complications, secondary conditions and procedures.
- Utilizes all tools/resources for accuracy.
- Complies with the Standards of Ethical Coding as set forth by the American Health Information Management Association
(AHIMA) and adheres to official guidelines.
- Accuracy of 95%
- Must be comfortable communicating with provider
- Metrics/charts vary depending on the specialty
- 17 weeks up and going for training

3-5 Must Have Skills/Qualifications:
- Certified Professional Coder
- Willingness to certify ROCC
- Dedicated RadOnc coding experience is necessary.
- Candidates must have a minimum of 5 years coding experience.

Pay: Starts at $27.88/hr - 44.52/hr DOE!

Education: High School Diploma and CPC

Hours:
- Schedule between 5am-11pm Sun-Sat allowing flexibility to meet 40 hours a week. (can choose your own days/hours)