Optum Hiring Freshers Medical Coding Analyst

Optum is a global organisation dedicated to improving health outcomes through innovative technology solutions. By connecting millions of people with essential care, pharmacy benefits, and resources, we empower individuals to lead healthier lives. Our culture thrives on diversity, inclusion, and collaboration, offering comprehensive benefits and career development opportunities.

Medical Coding Analyst

Job Title: Medical Coder

As a Medical Coder at Optum, you’ll play a crucial role in indexing medical information to support hospital statistics, regional planning, and accurate reimbursement. Your responsibilities include coding inpatient and outpatient records, ensuring accurate assignment of ICD-10 and/or CPT-4 codes, and maintaining coding accuracy above 95%. Additionally, you’ll participate in coding meetings, educational conferences, and demonstrate a commitment to ongoing skill development.

Primary Responsibility:

• Be able to implement all the updates of AMA guidelines, AHA guidelines, and CMS guidelines
• Be able to review and analyse medical records and add/modify CPT codes for minor surgical procedures, vaccines, and laboratory CPT codes as per documentation
• Be able to extract and code various screening CPT codes and HCPCS codes from the documentation
• Be able to check NCCI edits and LCD & NCD coverage determinations and modify ICD-10-CM codes, CPT codes, and modifiers accordingly
• Be an ideal team player who can work in a large group and provide inputs to the team for betterment of the team in terms of quality and productivity
• Under general supervision, organizes and prioritizes all work to ensure that records are coded, and edits are resolved in a timeframe that will assure compliance with regulatory and client guidelines
• Adherence with confidentiality and maintains security of systems
• Compliance with HIPAA policies and procedures for confidentiality of all patient records
• Comply with the terms and conditions of the employment contract, company policies and procedures, and any and all directives (such as, but not limited to, transfer and/or re-assignment to different work locations, change in teams and/or work shifts, policies in regards to flexibility of work benefits and/or work environment, alternative work arrangements, and other decisions that may arise due to the changing business environment). The Company may adopt, vary or rescind these policies and directives in its absolute discretion and without any limitation (implied or otherwise) on its ability to do so

Required Qualifications:

• Graduate Certified Fresher or Experience in medical coding or with any other previous experience
• Certified coder through AAPC or AHIMA. Certifications accepted include CPC, CCS, CIC and COC – Anyone
• All the candidates must have current coding certifications and must provide proof of certification with valid certification identification number during interview / Offer process
• Certification validity date should be a minimum 3 months from Date of Joining Note – We hire only certified candidates and not trained candidates

Additional Job Details:

• Requisition Number: 2262478
• Job Category: Medical & Clinical Operations
• Primary Location: Chennai, Tamil Nadu, IN

How to Apply:

Interested and eligible Candidates, please share your resume to vidhyaa.baskaran@optum.com  / dineshvenkatasai.babu@optum.com

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Tagged as: Good Clinical Practice (GCP)