An Iowa Top Workplaces of 2022, Adair County Health System is a special place. We are fortunate to have some of the most highly skilled and compassionate health care professionals in the area who truly care about our patients and each other. We value teamwork, recognize achievements and celebrate successes. ACHS fosters a positive and fun work environment for employees to learn, grow and serve. Most importantly, we strive to create a culture of excellence where providing exceptional health care and extraordinary patient experience are paramount.

ACHS is seeking a full-time HIM Technician in our Revenue Cycle team who will be responsible for a variety of duties, including but not limited to:

• HIM technicians maintain, analyze, code, abstract and report medical records information. They are responsible for ensuring complete encounters, checking accuracy and ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements.
• Specifics can include the following:
  • Scan and import PHI (protected health information) into the EMR (electronic medical records) system to ensure complete documentation for each encounter to ensure patient care and support of charges.
  • Monitors medical records to ensure appropriate patient record documentation of assessment, care, instructions given, medication refills, orders.
  • Appropriate maintenance of medical records according to our Records Retention Policy.
  • Releasing medical records to patients and medical offices as needed.
  • Answering of operator phone and directing patients as needed.
  • Coordinates with Revenue Cycle team members regarding charge entry, medical necessity, and coding/billing issues.
  • Code disease and injury diagnoses, acuity of care, and procedures, using standard references for coding to include current ICD, CPT, HCPCS guidance.
  • Maintains confidentiality at all times.

• High school diploma or equivalent required.
• Past successful usage of computer systems is required, to do data entry and information processing into medical record systems.
• The below items are all preferred:
  • Technical or specialized training such as would be acquired in a college or technical school (CPC, etc) preferred.
  • Medical terminology and uses, covering the full range of general medical, surgical, pharmaceutical, and hospital terms and abbreviations, as well as medical abstract is preferred
  • Physiology, major anatomical systems, and related disease processes.
  • Ability to correlate laboratory tests, procedures, and treatments with diagnoses.
  • Legal and regulatory requirements for medical records.
  • Laws and regulations on the confidentiality of medical records and the procedures for obtaining informed consent for release of information from the record.
  • Skill to collect and organize data for statistical reports.
  • Data collection methods for basic health care and research information.