at R1 RCM in Chicago, Illinois, United States
Job Description
Location: Ascension Resurrection Medical Center
Overview
As our HIM Associate II, you will be maintaining the integrity and precision of patient records. You’ll use your excellent communication and interpersonal skills to interview patients as well as physicians and their staff. Your role plays a key part in managing and overseeing health information systems.
To thrive in this position, you will need to be detail-oriented, organized, and passionate about handling sensitive information. You will use your understanding of Health Informatics (HI) to run an error analysis and recommend solutions. Exercises independent judgment related to the retrieval of health information.
Previous experience in health information management will give you leverage to understand the department. We will teach you our industry-leading technology and a variety of medical terminology to perform at your best and feel good about what you do.
Here’s What You Can Expect
+ You will be responsible for ensuring that the resolution of health record deficiencies is in accordance with patient care, regulatory compliance, legal standards, and reimbursement activities.
+ You will be entering and updating R1 software (epars, PAS, Chart Manager) for their specified functions of central business office requests, denials, and DNFB activities.
+ You will manage transcription issues as directed by the R1 transcription team.
+ Perform EMPI functions to ensure the accuracy and completeness of the facility’s master patient index as well as the patient’s medical record.
+ You will monitor the task queues for data integrity issues including duplicates, overlaps, and overlays as well as other data integrity issues.
+ You will initiate the medical record suspension process according to the facility and regulatory requirements.
+ You will perform quantitative reviews of the medical record and monitor the quality of the functions of the global team.
For this US-based position, the base pay range is $16.50 – $22.23 per hour . Individual pay is determined by role, level, location, job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.
The healthcare system is always evolving – and it’s up to us to use our shared expertise to find new solutions that can keep up. On our growing team you’ll find the opportunity to constantly learn, collaborate across groups and explore new paths for your career.
Our associates are given the chance to contribute, think boldly and create meaningful work that makes a difference in the communities we serve around the world. We go beyond expectations in everything we do. Not only does that drive customer success and improve patient care, but that same enthusiasm is applied to giving back to the community and taking care of our team – including offering a competitive benefits package. (http://go.r1rcm.com/benefits)
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R1 is the leading provider of technology-driven solutions that transform the patient experience and financial performance of hospitals, health systems and medical groups. We are the one company that combines the deep expertise of a global workforce of revenue cycle professionals with the industry’s most advanced technology platform, encompassing sophisticated analytics, AI, intelligent automation and workflow orchestration.
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