Documentation Specialist

Hill Crest Behavioral Health is an acute care, 194 bed inpatient psychiatric facility located in Birmingham, AL, providing mental health services for adolescents and adults.

Hill Crest Behavioral Health offers comprehensive benefits for the Assessment Coordinator position, such as:

• Challenging and rewarding work environment
• Competitive Compensation
• Excellent Medical, Dental, Vision, and Prescription Drug Plan
• Generous Paid Time Off
• 401(K) with company match and discounted stock plan
• Career development opportunities within UHS and its Subsidiaries
• www.hillcrestbhs.com

If you would like to learn more about the Documentation Specialist position before applying, please contact Emma Peterson, Recruiter at Emma.Peterson@uhsinc.com or by phone at (205)838-4062.

What do our current employees value at UHS?

An environment that puts patient care first. One of the most rewarding aspects of working at Hill Crest Behavioral Health is providing excellent care, comfort, and security to the patients and families you treat, at their most vulnerable times. Having the opportunity to grow, learn, and advance in your career. There are very robust continuing education options and opportunities for leadership development as a Therapist with UHS. Supportive and responsive leadership. Competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package.

Functions as backup inpatient coder, appropriatley coding inpatient medical records ytilizing DSM-V and ICD-10-CM coding systems for claims processing. Responsible for re-analysis, update and competion of medical documentation by clinicians according to the Joint Commission, CMS and other regulatory guidelines. Responsible for weekly delinquency count for physicians ans other clinicians.

Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• High School graduate or GED
• Graduate of an accredited Health Informaton Management program preferred.
• Demonstrates knowledge of ICD-10-CM and DSM-V coding principles and guidelines
• Minimum of two years inpatient coding experience to include behavioral health required.
• RHIA, RHIT credential, and/or CCS (Certified coding specialist) certification accepted in lieu of ecperience
• Knowledge of medical terminology, anatomy and physiology and disease processes.
• Minimum one year experience performing related medical records processes preferred.
• knowledge of federal, state and payer specific regulations, policies and compliance standards pertaining to documentation, coding and billing.
• Functions as backup inpatient coder as workload necessitates or primary coder is unavailable
• Logs discharges in discharge book

Physical demands

• Ability to work long hours
• Ability to work indoors or outdoors in direct sunlight
• Ability to remain continuously alert and focused
• Ability to wirte
• Ability to effectively communicate
• Ability to see (suffucuent to read charts and instrustions, handwritten and typewritten material)
• Ability to detect potential or actual safety hazards (sufficient to detect smoke, chemicals or other environmental threats)
• Ability to squat, stoop, and bend downward and forward by bending spine at the waist
• Ability to reach above head level and lift and hold approximately 15 pounds repeatedly
• Ability to move approximately 50 pounds
• Ability to perform physical aspects of CPR

EEO Statement

All UHS subsidiaries are committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants and teammates. UHS subsidiaries are equal opportunity employers and as such, openly support and fully commit to recruitment, selection, placement, promotion and compensation of individuals without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), genetic information, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

We believe that diversity and inclusion among our teammates is critical to our success.

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