HB Outpatient Second Level Reviewer – Remote
The University of California, San Diego
About this position
Position Description
UC San Diego Health's Revenue Cycle department supports the organization's mission to deliver outstanding patient care and to create a healthier world — one life at a time. We are a diverse, patient-focused, high-performing team with a commitment to quality, collaboration, and continuous improvement that enables us to deliver the maximum standard of care to our patients. We offer challenging career opportunities in a fast-paced and innovative environment and we embrace individuals who demonstrate a deep passion for problem-solving and customer service. Responsible for review, audit, and remediation of any deviation from compliant coding, training the coding staff, and educating other workforce members in coding, grouping, and proper documentation. Oversees the generation and approvals of queries to assure a timely and appropriate response. Assures that all coding assignments and workflow achieves the intended result. Represents coding leadership at optimization, CDI, and other interdisciplinary meetings. Assure the highest level of data integrity, denial avoidance due to coding, and the highest quality of external data released to HEDIS, CMS and Vizient.
Qualifications
Seven (7) years of related auditing experience i.e. auditing experience in large academic hospital system, education/training, OR a Bachelor’s Degree in related area plus three (3) years auditing experience i.e. auditing experience in large academic hospital system, education/training. Thorough knowledge of the audit profession, theories and systems of internal control, and professional auditing standards. Gathers, organizes and performs analysis for moderately complex audit assignments. Working on mastering more advanced audit concepts and applications in the completion of assignments. Strong interpersonal and communication skills to present sensitive information with diplomacy and in a clear and concise manner. Presents to a wide variety of audiences, including senior management and external agencies. May require specialized expertise in enterprise software and relational databases.
Job Location
Remote