What’s on Offer
- Mission: Provide compassionate, excellent and holistic healthcare. Tagline: Serve all with Love.
- Company: Guided by Catholic values, as a missionary not-for-profit hospital, we reach out to and serve all our patients and visitors with love, continue to make private healthcare accessible to our community by providing reasonable price points and bill transparency. We continue to be progressive to better serve current and future generations.
- Values: Compassionate, Humility, Integrity, Respect and Peace (CHIRP).
- Sustainability: Love for nature and the environment. For instance, BYO food containers at staff canteen.
- Work-Life balance: Attractive leave days to rest and re-charge.
- Work Satisfaction: An impactful role in shaping a high performing & engaging culture.
Who We Need
As a Clinical Coder, you shall be responsible for the timely and accurate analysis of clinical statements for the assignment of standard DRG codes using a classification system in compliance to the Australian code standards for ICD 10AM. Your responsibilities are as stated below.
- Perform clinical coding of separations using the 3M Code Finder and ICD 10 AM coding books / eBooks, dictionary, coding authority and any other resources when necessary for all diagnostic and procedural information documented every inpatient and day surgery discharges.
- Complete clinical coding within 96 hours of discharge.
- Liaise with internal / external clinical coders regarding coding queries and coordinate follow-up of queries with clinicians.
- Ensure quality of coding and medical case notes completeness with effective clinician engagements to clarify incomplete or ambiguity from clinical documentation in the process of clinical coding.
- Monitor and evaluate coding statistics to ensure targets and key performance indicators are met.
- Report to the Head of Department Medical Record Office regularly on the status of coding and issues relating to the evaluation of information and any significant trends that are observed.
- Ensure confidentiality for patient information used in data collection and reporting systems.
- Adhere to statutory regulations and hospital policies and procedures.
- Develop close working relationships with clinicians, nurses, and overall hospital staff, to support an understanding of the various mechanisms of information collection and its use in evidence-based decision making.
- Assist department with key responsibilities, including clerical, reporting, medico-legal etc. as required.
- Undertake projects and quality improvement activities where requested by the Head of Department Clinical Quality & Informatics.
- Participate in departmental audits as well as external audits for self-assessment, periodic review and accreditation.
- Complete all yearly mandatory training competencies.
How to Succeed
- Possess a Degree qualified in Health Information Management/Medical Record Administration or equivalent competency through clinical coding experience.
- Recognized Clinical Coding qualification is an advantage.
- Participate in hospital audits and accreditation and actively review hospital wide quality improvement projects.
- Be the point of contact for MAH accredited Specialists and their clinic managers for all matters pertaining to Medical Records.
- Experience in computerized patient administration systems and applications including coding software.
- At least 1 year of working experience as a Clinical Coder.
