Clinical Coder Position
4 weeks ago
About the Role:
An exciting opportunity exists to work within the Northern Adelaide Local Health Network as a Clinical Coder within the Corporate Services Division.
As a Clinical Coder, you will be responsible for the timely allocation of ICD-10-AM codes to inpatient episodes of care to produce accurate and comprehensive morbidity & casemix profile for NALHN situated at Lyell McEwin and Modbury Hospitals.
Key responsibilities of this role include:
- Ensuring accurate, timely and detailed abstraction and classification of inpatient episodes of care on to the relevant Hospital database, according to the ICD-10-AM or subsequent versions, and following established State & National guidelines and coding standards.
- Providing support in the assistance to medical and other clinical personnel to ensure the allocation of ICD-10-AM diagnoses and procedure codes are correct and complete, and can be substantiated by documentation within the medical record.
- Ensuring ethical Documentation Queries are completed, when required, to support accurate and comprehensive morbidity & casemix profile for NALHN; providing advice and support to clinical staff to ensure clinical documentation improvement.
- Accessing all patient information for each episode via Sunrise or associated computer systems to ensure accurate coding of inpatient data.
- Demonstrating competence in the knowledge of the APC data collection process, definitions and procedures.
- Demonstrating competence in the knowledge of Activity Based Funding and DRG principles.
As an Advanced Clinical Coder, you will be responsible for more complex and intricate clinical coding, for quality clinical documentation, mentoring less experienced clinical coders and providing advice and support to clinical staff in relation to clinical documentation.
Key responsibilities of this role include:
- Translating the narrative descriptions of diagnoses and procedures into valid, accurate and complete ICD-10-AM codes which reflect the complete clinical picture of the patient, reason for admission and treatment administered.
- Performing clinical coding at an advanced level, covering a broad Casemix, using appropriate initiative, judgement and resources, to make coding decisions in abstraction and assignment of codes.
- Applying and always maintaining a high level of knowledge and performance outcomes for advanced abstraction, code assignment, interpretation and application of the National and State Coding Standards.
- Ensuring correct allocation and sequencing of all additional diagnosis and procedure codes in accordance with the Australian Coding Standards.
- Ensuring the correct assignment of codes and appropriate DRG assignment.
To be eligible for this position, you must have satisfactory completion of the Health Information Management Association of Australia (HIMAA) coding course, together with demonstrated competency in ICD-10-AM coding.
The South Australian public sector promotes diversity and flexible ways of working including part-time. Applicants are encouraged to discuss the flexible working arrangements for this role.
Appointment will be subject to a satisfactory Criminal History Check.
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