Clinical Coders — PbR / HRG4 x 6

Location: UK-wide
Salary: £40,000
Job posted: 5 Oct 2009

This highly renowned and well established healthcare organisation is looking for 6 Clinical Coders to work at various sites across the UK. The Clinical Coder will join a highly skilled administrative team working to implement an improvement methodology to ensure depth of coding and accurate funding under PbR (Payment by Results).

The Clinical Coder will promote HRG4 and encourage the routine completion of accurate and comprehensive clinical information as part of the patients’ medical records. In short, the Clinical Coder’s key role it to improve the depth of coding from the Hospital’s activity data and assist in auditing, training and streamlining of process.

Key responsibilities

• Promote a robust data quality culture as the basis for PbR by articulating the need for and benefits of data quality in creating reliable and robust health information;
• Promote the complex issues associated with PbR and HRG4;
• Work closely with the Hospital’s billing and finance teams and clinical staff;
• Monitor and analyse the ward listings on PAS and the completion of discharge summaries;
• Code clinical information when required to ensure that the Data Quality and Clinical Coding within the Hospital achieve their deadlines.

Experience and qualifications

• Proven track record in Clinical Coding;
• High level of competency and understanding of all aspects of clinical coding;
• Experience of working with the EPR (Electronics Patient Record);
• In-depth knowledge and practical experience of coding improvements, HRG validation, quality assurance, audit and resolving errors.

If you are an experienced Clinical Coder looking for a new challenge, apply for this outstanding role today.

Email your CV to mira_p@informatiq.co.uk or call Mira on 01923 22 44 81 for more information.