Coding Assistant (Part Time)

Campus Description: Stony Brook University has established itself as one of America's most dynamic public universities, a center of academic excellence and a leader in health education, patient care and research. Listed among the top 1 percent of all universities in the world by Times Higher Education World University Rankings, Stony Brook is home to more than 24,000 undergraduate, graduate and doctoral students and more than 13,500 faculty and staff, including those employed at Stony Brook Medicine, Long Island's premier academic medical center and teaching hospital. With 597 beds, Stony Brook Hospital is the region's only tertiary care center and Regional Trauma Center. The University is a member of the prestigious Association of American Universities and co-manager of nearby Brookhaven National Laboratory.

REF#: HS-R-8162-13-09-S
Research Foundation Support Position
Department: Emergency Medicine
RF Line#: TBD
Grade: N.5
Campus: Stony Brook West Campus/HSC*
Salary: $17,490 - $19,080 @ 53% FTE

Required Qualifications: High School Diploma/GED. Two years of progressively responsible full time administrative experience including one year experience working with medical records.

Preferred Qualifications: Associate's Degree. One year of experience in physician billing, specifically entering charges (CPT codes) and diagnoses (ICD-9 codes). One year experience working in a physician practice. Experience with PatientKeeper physician billing systems.

Brief Description of Duties: The Coding Assistant will support billing for Emergency Medicine Physicians services provided at Peconic Bay Medical Center in Riverhead. The selected candidate will:

• Review ED medical records in scanning database to ensure all information complete for outside coding company.
• Enter patient information - CPT codes, ICD-9 diagnosis codes, and other required information into patient billing system. Annual patient volume is approximately 36,000.
• Pull charts from Medical Records for physician addenda.
• Prepare medical records copies needed for billing (workers compensation, no fault) and compliance inquiries.
• Scan missing charts and addenda into Scan-ER system.
• Reconcile outside coding with ED daily patient list to ensure all patients are billed.

Other Duties: As assigned.

Special Notes: This is a part-time position, 20 hours per week, days and hours vary. The Research Foundation of SUNY is a private educational corporation. Employment is subject to the Research Foundation policies and procedures, sponsor guidelines and the availability of funding. Internal and external search to occur simultaneously. FLSA Nonexempt position, eligible for the overtime provisions of the FLSA. *This position is located in Riverhead, NY.

The selected candidate must successfully clear a background investigation.

Application Procedure: Those interested in this position should submit a Research Foundation Employment Application, Resume and Cover Letter to:

Marsha Carlisle
Emergency Medicine
Health Sciences Center, Level 4, Room 080
Stony Brook University
Stony Brook, NY 11794-8350
Fax # 631-444-2406

Applications for this position must be received, as specified in the Application Procedure Section, no later than 5:00 PM Eastern Time on 10/04/2013, unless specifically noted otherwise in the Special Notes Section.

THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF SUNY IS AN AFFIRMATIVE ACTION/EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER.

IF YOU NEED A DISABILITY-RELATED ACCOMMODATION, PLEASE CALL THE HUMAN RESOURCE SERVICES DEPARTMENT AT (631) 632-6161 OR THE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HUMAN RESOURCES DEPARTMENT AT (631) 444-4700.

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