Behavioral Health Billing Coder

Monday to Friday-hours varies

At Lifepoint Behavioral Health, we specialize in compassionate behavioral health services, including crisis stabilization for acute mental health and substance use disorders. Our philosophy is built on a psychosocial model of care and follows the core principles of resilience, recovery and restoration. Our teams are committed to providing superior patient care that exceeds industry standards as well as patient expectations. This is a full-time remote position. 

Benefits:

• Working with a highly engaged staff
• Healthy staffing levels
• Flexible scheduling
• Career growth
• Competitive compensation
• Expansive benefits package
• Supportive leadership and culture

• UKG Wallet – We’ve partnered with UKG Wallet, a voluntary Earned Wage Access benefit, to offer employees access to their pay on their own schedule.

What you will do in this role:

• Enters appropriate ICD-CM/PCS codes into the patient information system using codes obtained from the current encoder system
• Finalizes abstract status to release codes to Fiscal Services within three to five (3- 5) days of discharges.
• Assigns corrections for any missing or incomplete documentation preventing final coding
• Queries physicians when code assignments are not clear or documentation in the record is inadequate for coding purposes, notifying supervisor of any outstanding queries beyond approved timeframe
• Maintains current department productivity and accuracy standards.

Qualifications:

• Associate’s degree with RHIT, CCS or CCA preferred.
• Previous coding experience in information management at psychiatric health care facility preferred
• RHIT, CCS or CCA preferred
• May be required to work flexible hours and overtime.