PROFESSIONAL CODER 1

**Who You’ll Join:** At **Santiam Hospital & Clinics**, we believe exceptional patient care starts with a supportive and inclusive work environment. We empower every team member by providing access to advanced medical technology and continuous professional development. Join our collaborative culture, where your contributions are valued and your growth is encouraged. Bring your coding expertise to **Santiam Hospital & Clinics** as a **Professional Coder 1**, where your accuracy and attention to detail directly support quality care, compliant documentation, and a smooth revenue cycle. In this role, you will use your ICD-10 knowledge with your extensive understanding of payer requirements and reimbursement guidelines to review health information records, identify documentation opportunities, and collaborate with providers and internal teams to resolve coding questions. We’re seeking a reliable, detail-driven professional who communicates with clarity, safeguards patient confidentiality, and takes pride in supporting our mission, vision, and values. If you are a coding professional looking to take the next step in your career - apply today and bring your expertise to **Santiam Hospital & Clinics**, recently honored as ***2025’s Best Hospital in the Willamette Valley!*** **What You’ll Do:** - Temporary/Full-time position with flexible hours given the job requires two evenings per month and some weekends. - Through prompt and effective onsite or remote communication with Medical Staff members, clinical Hospital staff members, and other staff members, including those who perform administrative, Patient Access Service, or professional coding functions, collaboratively participate in Revenue and Reimbursement Department professional coding activity. - Use Hospital patient health information system work queues to review and attend to assigned tasks. - While adhering to medical coding conventions and guidelines, use and ensure use of standardized codes to accurately and consistently describe Medical Clinics patient medical diagnoses and procedures that took place during patient encounters, locations where such services were provided, and applicable patient evaluation and management complexity; apply such conventions in manner that justly maximizes potential reimbursement for service provision. - Request from applicable Medical Staff members clarification that may be indicated to maximize coding accuracy and capture. - Use tools that are available in Department to verify coding accuracy. - Analyze patient health information records and use such analysis to identify documentation deficiency. - Maintain and apply current knowledge about coding systems and tools that include Correct Coding Initiative edits, Current Procedural Terminology (Categories I and II, including related Medically Unlikely Edits [MUEs]), International Classification of Diseases (Tenth Revision), and the Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System (including related MUEs), and about how such systems, tools, and related modifiers are used in reimbursement process; ensure that such resources are used in manner that complies with state and federal law. - Maintain current knowledge about healthcare payors, including knowledge about particular payor requirements for applicable reimbursement. - Perform other duties assigned by Professional Coder Lead, Coding Operations Supervisor, or Health Information Management Manager. **What You’ll Need:** - Knowledge of principles that relate to the position - Education or experience in medical coding that does not exceed apprentice level (i.e. possession of the Certified Professional Coder - Apprentice [CPC-A] credentialed issued by the American Academy of Professional Coders) - Aptitude in verbal and written communication - Possession of United States proof of citizenship or right to work in the United States - Possession of a driver’s license or analogous identification - Willingness to participate in Hospital orientation and education…