Aim for Accuracy? Cognizant Is Hiring a Full-Time Inpatient Medical Coder

You’re not just a medical coder. You’re a super coder.

That’s pretty much what you’ll need to bring to the table to snag this remote inpatient coder job with Cognizant Technology Solutions.

For this full-time, day-shift position, you need to be able to maintain minimum accuracy of 98% while meeting company’s productivity standards of 24 encounters per day, with 20 minutes to code each encounter.

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Inpatient coder at Cognizant 

Responsibilities include:

• Coding diagnoses and procedures using an electronic encoder application.
• Communicating with physicians to obtain or clarify diagnoses and procedures.
• Performing peer reviews.

Applicants for this position must have:

• Experience with CCS, RHIT or RHIA (AHIMA).
• At least two years of facility-based inpatient experience.
• Knowledge of federal, state and payer regulations.
• Ability to interpret medical record reports and charts.
• Basic computer skills, including proficiency using Word and Excel.
• A score of 80% or better on a coding assessment.
• Organizational, time-management and multitasking skills.

Benefits at Cognizant include:

• Health plans.
• Professional development opportunities.

Tiffany Wendeln Connors is a staff writer/editor at The Penny Hoarder. Read her bio and other work here, then catch her on Twitter @TiffanyWendeln.