Rev Integrity Analyst 1 - CL / Revenue Cycle Cmdr Coding

Hartford Healthcare•Farmington, CT

About The Position

Work where every moment matters. Every day, more than 40,000 Hartford HealthCare colleagues come to work with one thing in common\: Pride in what we do, knowing every moment matters here. We invite you to become part of Connecticut’s most comprehensive healthcare network. The creation of the HHC System Support Office recognizes the work of a large and growing group of employees whose responsibilities are continually evolving so that we and our departments now work on behalf of the system as a whole, rather than a single member organization. With the creation of our new umbrella organization we now have our own identity with a unique payroll, benefits, performance management system, service recognition programs and other common practices across the system. Position Summary: This position contributes and supports Revenue Integrity's mission towards creating a multidisciplinary revenue integrity team to strengthen the interface between clinical departments and the charge improvement process. It is an integrated approach that guides the Hartford HealthCare (HHC) organization toward achieving operational efficiency, complete regulatory compliance, and total reimbursement. This role supports HHC institutes that includes hospitals and professional services for high profile areas and largest revenue generating clinical departments. Under the direction of the Manager Revenue Integrity Analyst – Clinical Liaison, the Revenue Integrity Analyst I plays a key role in a high-profile group tasked with improving revenue results. This position is integral to the Revenue Integrity Team to assist in ensuring charging accuracy, for patient services and appropriately coded supported by clinical documentation so the related revenue is recorded in the proper department. In turn, this promotes revenue enhancement and compliance with laws and regulations with feedback and education to the hospital departments as needed. This position is responsible for assisting Revenue Cycle Services, Coding, Clinical Documentation Improvement (CDI), and other departments with resolution of billing issues and/or denials requiring clinical expertise, participating in external audit requests, and special projects as needed. This position also serves as an audit outcome educator with clinical staff in clinic and department settings.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree with health management or financial emphasis and/or health services Or equivalent experience
Five (5 ) years of progressive on-the-job experience in an acute care hospital
Minimum\: Certified Coder, (CCS, CPC, etc.)
English - Strong written and verbal communication skills
Requires the ability to manage large complex projects assignments, investigate, analyze, and resolve issues at an important level. Excellent communication, presentation, organizational, analytical, and critical thinking skills.
Must approach problem-solving challenges independently, have strong attention to detail and enjoy working in a fast-paced, collaborative team-based environment.
Extensive knowledge of revenue cycle processes and hospital/ medical billing to include CDM, UB, RAs and 1500.
Extensive knowledge of code data sets to include CPT, HCPCS, and ICD 10.
Extensive knowledge of NCCI edits, and Medicare LCD/NCDs.
Extensive understanding of reimbursement theories to include OPPS, MPFS, and managed care.
Extensive working knowledge of health care compliance.
Extensive understanding of medical terminology, anatomy, and physiology along with clinical department activities. The ability to review, analyze and interpret managed care contracts, billing guidelines, and state and federal regulations along with assistance for all member entities.
The ability to work with and interpret detailed medical record documents and communicate effectively with physicians, nursing staff, leadership, and other billing personnel.
Read, write, and speak English proficiently.
Strong analytical capabilities.
Excellent organizational skills.
Proficiently read and interpret physician writing.
Function independently.
Manage multiple priorities.
Listen and acknowledge ideas and expressions of others attentively.
Converse clearly using appropriate verbal and body language.
Collaborate with others to achieve a common goal through cooperation.
Influence others for positive and productive outcomes.
Utilize coding subject matter expertise to support new specialized coders and other projects.
Work across the Hartford HealthCare System.
MS Office includes Word, PowerPoint, Excel and Outlook, Windows operating system, and the Internet.

Nice To Haves

Preferred\: Certified Healthcare Revenue Integrity (CHRI)

Responsibilities

This position is responsible for assisting Revenue Cycle Services, Coding, and other clinical departments with resolution of billing issues and/or denials requiring clinical expertise, participating in external audit requests, and special projects as needed. Performs denial resolution by analyzing denial data to identify root causes of preventable denials, develop and implement corrective action plans to address root causes, including collaborating with the clinical areas as well as other departments within revenue cycle. Optimizes revenue cycle processes by validating, evaluating, and trending substantial amounts of data for presentation to all levels of the organization.
This position serves as an audit outcome educator with clinical staff in clinic and department settings. Performs regular charge audits, identifying any trends, and implementing corrective actions when appropriate reporting to the Revenue Integrity Manager. Provides guidance, communication and education on correct charge capture, documentation, coding, and billing processes.
Performs an integrated approach toward achieving operational efficiency, complete regulatory compliance, and total reimbursement. In turn, this promotes revenue enhancement and compliance with laws and regulations with feedback and education to the hospital departments as needed. Evaluates current charging and coding structures and processes in revenue generating departments to ensure appropriate capture and reporting of revenue and compliance with government and third-party payer requirements. Assesses the accuracy of all charging vehicles, including clinical systems and dictionaries, encounter forms and other charge documents used to capture revenue.
This position is integral to the Revenue Integrity Team to assist in ensuring patient services are accurately charged, appropriately coded, supported by clinical documentation and that the related revenue is recorded in the proper department. This position is responsible for assisting Revenue Cycle Services, Coding, , and other departments with resolution of billing issues and/or denials, participating in external audit requests, and special projects as needed.
Communicate CDM maintenance activities to clinical departments and information systems staff to implement necessary changes that affect charge identification, capture, reconciliation, and claim processing. Ensure changes within the charge description master (CDM) coincide and are implemented with clinical systems by reviewing flow sheets or charge capture preference lists. Leads annual, quarterly, CPT®, HCPCS changes for accuracy, compliance with applicable billing guidelines, and optimization of reimbursement.
Monitor national, state, and local information to keep current with applicable regulatory and legislative changes and tailor the revenue integrity program accordingly.