Job Information
Sharp HealthCare Charge Integrity Support Specialist - PFS Revenue Integrity - Corporate Office - Day Shift - Full Time in San Diego, California
Facility: Corporate Offices
City San Diego
Department
Job Status
Regular
Shift
Day
FTE
1
Shift Start Time
Shift End Time
Driver's License - CA Department of Motor Vehicles; Certified Professional Coder (CPC) - AAPC
Hours :
Shift Start Time:
Variable
Shift End Time:
Variable
AWS Hours Requirement:
8/40 - 8 Hour Shift
Additional Shift Information:
Weekend Requirements:
As Needed
On-Call Required:
No
Hourly Pay Range (Minimum - Midpoint - Maximum):
$28.686 - $35.857 - $43.029
The stated pay scale reflects the range that Sharp reasonably expects to pay for this position.  The actual pay rate and pay grade for this position will be dependent on a variety of factors, including an applicant’s years of experience, unique skills and abilities, education, alignment with similar internal candidates, marketplace factors, other requirements for the position, and employer business practices.
What You Will Do
To be the operational subject matter expert on all charge integrity solutions, coordinate revenue enhancement opportunities for all entities supported by the System Revenue Integrity Department and in alignment with the overall mission of Sharp HealthCare.
Required Qualifications
1 Year experienced with hospital and ambulatory care charging and coding practices, or hospital revenue cycle, or contractual payment schemes.
Driver's License - CA Department of Motor Vehicles -REQUIRED
Preferred Qualifications
3 Years Experience in a large hospital setting, medical group, or consulting company.
Certified Professional Coder (CPC) - AAPC -PREFERRED
Other Qualification Requirements
Bachelor's degree or relevant experience in excess of four years may be substituted for degree. - Preferred
Utilizes reliable transportation and possesses adequate personal insurance coverage. Demonstrates clean driving record in accordance with requirements of the employer DMV pull notice program and Sharp HealthCare Driver Guidelines.
Essential Functions
Analyzes, Evaluates, and ReportsReviews and follows-up on daily reports, system work queues and/or vendor portal to identify accounts that have potential lost, over, undocumented, duplicate charges. Identify, trend and report potential systemic issues to Charge Integrity Team for resolution. Conduct root cause analysis of charge integrity issues and provide recommendations.Follow up directly with department to ensure charges are entered onto accounts timely.Reviews and follows-up on daily reports to identify late charges.Researches, identifies, prioritizes, and communicates charge integrity opportunities. Demonstrates superb attention to detail and analytical thinking skills.
Department Support and TeamworkMaintains expertise in accurate charge entry and coding requirements, collaborates with coding compliance specialist(s).Work collaboratively across disciplines and communicate with various customers while seeking solutions. Might be assigned to support key clinical areas on a need basis.
Department System CompetencyMaintains expertise in charge source criteria and IT interfaces from upstream systems.Assists in deploying technology solutions, developing standard approaches, tools, reports, communication, policies and procedures to be utilized across the system.
Problem ResolutionReviews and follows-up on issues in assigned work-queues.Follows-up with clinical, coding, billing and operational contacts to resolve revenue integrity concerns in a timely manner.Assigns actions, turnaround times to appropriate parties, monitors progress and results, reports out to management. Contributes to analytical, technical and operations problem solution efforts.Works with revenue integrity, finance and clinical leadership to develop, implement charge capture entry, validation, reconciliation and correction processes; developing and implementing protocols, policies and procedures to support charge capture accuracy and timeliness.
Demonstrate Effective Self-direction and Time Management SkillsPractices strong organizational and project management skills. Manages workflows and tasks by prioritizing, planning, and executing. Embodies and complies with Sharp behavioral standards.Keeps current with trends, developments in the profession, industry and related fields of expertise.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
Must have an understanding of Revenue Cycle concepts and knowledge of clinical concepts.
Must be proficient with Microsoft Office Applications.
Sharp HealthCare is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, status as a protected veteran, among other things, or status as a qualified individual with disability or any other protected class
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