HIM Specialist

UHS•Richmond, VA

4d•Onsite

About The Position

The Atlantic Region Central Billing Office (“ARCBO”) or (“CBO”) provides business office services including billing, collections, cash posting, pre-access management, variance, and customer service to our affiliated Universal Health Services hospitals. The Atlantic Region CBO is seeking a dynamic and talented HIM Specialist. The HIM Specialist is responsible for the review of medical records to prepare for the scanning process, the scanning of medical records and the review of all medical records/electronic charts for quality control.

Requirements

High school diploma or equivalent.
Strong Microsoft Office skills (Excel, Word, Outlook)
Customer focused both internally and externally, strong attention to detail, the ability to multi-task, strong 10 key data entry, and excellent written and oral communication skills are required.

Nice To Haves

Bachelor's Degree preferred.
1-3 years healthcare experience preferred
1-3 years medical records experience preferred

Responsibilities

Reviews the paper medical chart and prepares it for the scanning process
Confirms medical documents have correct patient information, correct barcode stickers and are separated and batched properly for maximum productivity
Reconciles the paper charts prepped with the hospital discharge list and hospital census to verify receipt of all prepped charts and creation of the electronic chart
Scans batches of both medical records and/or loose pages to create of update the electronic chart
Manually indexes non standard documents to the correct encounter and document type
Determines the readiness of the documents for the QC process
Reviews the electronic medical record for verification against the paper record
Performs quality control and corrects any errors that occurred during the preparation, scanning and indexing of the medical charts
Generates error log and forwards to supervisor daily
Other duties as assigned