Health record technician vs medical coder

Differences between health record technician and medical coder duties and responsibilities

Health record technician example responsibilities.

• Maximize ROI by effectively managing the microfiche process.
• Treat all patients, their families, visitors, peers, staff and representatives in a pleasant and courteous manner.
• Process relatively structure records including detail coding and basic abstracting of discharge patients.
• Process records for HCC/HEDIS audits; perform regular monitoring of establish documentation deficiency and HIPPA reports.
• Organize, analyze and technically evaluate inpatient and outpatient medical records for physician completeness according to hospital bylaws and JCAHO standards.
• Analyze and process patient status in Meditech application.

Medical coder example responsibilities.

• Manage all EDI relate communication with trading partners and assist to produce all operational documents for all end users.
• Manage all aspects of AR including writing letters for medical necessity, claim denials, bundling issues and charge capture.
• Manage health records while applying ICD-10 coding to update and process insurance claims for time and accuracy to various insurance companies.
• Manage the outsourced transcription company.
• Create documentation education classes to general surgery residents, increasing the leveling of reporting which lead to increase revenues.
• Adhere to regulations with CPT-4, ICD-9-CM and HCPCS coding with medical terminology and effort meet all audit requirements.
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