HIM Chart Analyst

  • Full-time
  • Shift: Day
  • Location: Upper Chesapeake Health System
  • Position Type: Non-Exempt

Company Description

On-Call 2 Weekends a Month Rotation

Monday-Friday 8am-4:30pm

The University of Maryland Medical System (UMMS) is an academic private health system, focused on delivering compassionate, high quality care and putting discovery and innovation into practice at the bedside. Partnering with the University of Maryland School of Medicine, University of Maryland School of Nursing and University of Maryland, Baltimore who educate the state’s future health care professionals, UMMS is an integrated network of care, delivering 25 percent of all hospital care in urban, suburban and rural communities across the state of Maryland. UMMS puts academic medicine within reach through primary and specialty care delivered at 11 hospitals, including the flagship University of Maryland Medical Center, the System’s anchor institution in downtown Baltimore, as well as through a network of University of Maryland Urgent Care centers and more than 150 other locations in 13 counties. For more information, visit www.umms.org.

Job Description

Overview

  • Under direct supervision, performs timely analysis on discharged inpatient, same day surgery, emergency room, or any other patient record for completeness according to standards established by the Medical Staff Rules and Regulations, outside regulatory agencies and departmental procedures.

Key Responsibilities

  • Key Responsibility 1: Performs daily analysis on appropriate patient records.
  • Key Responsibility 2: Validates the correct assignment of the deficiency to the provider. Analyzes the patient’s medical record to ensure that the correct deficiency and provider have been identified. If needed makes corrections and addresses any deficiencies with support from the provider.
  • Key Responsibility 3: Works with the Medical Staff to ensure that the chart completion process is timely and efficient. Generates physician record completion information on demand. Prepares and maintains incomplete and delinquent medical record lists/letters and notifies provider according to physician escalation protocol.
  • Key Responsibility 4: Reviews assigned electronic work lists daily and ensures timely processing of all work items on work lists. Communicates with the Supervisor or appropriate up-line any concerns in a timely manner. Maintains expected productivity and quality standards. Completes and submits productivity reports on a weekly basis.
  • Key Responsibility 5: Where applicable- Gathers the information needed to ensure accurate completion of birth certificate worksheets. Ensures accurate and timely completion of birth certificate filing with the state in compliance with state regulations and guidelines.    
  • Perform all other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

Qualifications

  • Education · High School Diploma or GED
  • Experience · Minimum of 1 year previous experience in a hospital Health Information Management Department

Preferred

  • Education · Associate Degree in HIM or related field
  • Experience · Two years previous experience in a hospital Health Information Management Department with additional experience in quality analysis or similar function

Additional Information

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
Compensation:

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