Clinical Coder in Reem Hospital Abu Dhabi

Key responsibilities of Clinical Coder in Reem Hospital

• Assists in formulating and ensuring delivery of the Hospital corporate strategies and strategic plans.
• Work with the Senior Clinical Coder to develop the patient’s Financial service standards and ensure they are consistently met.
• Acting as a role model, they will deliver high operational performance standards by developing and supporting the Finance team.
• Collaborates with all levels of interdisciplinary teams, executive officers and other stakeholders in the development, implementation, and evaluation of programs and services.
• Reviewing and analyzing patient medical records to ensure all applicable patient data is available for coding and abstracting by checking the diagnosis and procedure
• Ensuring accurate coding and sequencing as specified by established coding principles and guidelines, following the clinical coding system
• Allocating the appropriate and specific codes from the indexing system and assigning the codes for completing a coding summary of the medical records
• Assisting with the preparation of medical records for the quality assurance and medical audit purposes by providing the coding data
• Investigating and resolving problems, complaints and incidents occurring within the coding section, and reporting these occurrences to the Senior Clinical Coder  for further action
• Ensuring timely completion of medical coding as per the orders
• Ensuring consistency in information data flow and documentation requirements for effective medical coding and groupin
• Collaborating with clinical and non-clinical staff in research projects, teaching activities, evaluation of medical records etc. by utilizing the coding database
• Applying knowledge of basic medical sciences and medical terminology skills
• Coordinating with the data analysis section for coding statistics requirements, and with other sections in medical records, for other clerical-related transactions/arrangements