Coder - Health Information Management - Full Time (40 hours/week)

Company Description

KVH is an integrated healthcare delivery system that includes 24-hour emergency care, inpatient, and outpatient hospital services through KVH Hospital. Clinics and services provided include family medicine, internal medicine, a geriatric nurse practitioner program, home health and hospice, physical therapy, orthopedics, general surgery, pediatrics, women’s health, and urgent care.

Kittitas Valley Healthcare expects all employees to uphold our Vision & Mission. The KVH Vision, Mission & Guiding Principles can be found at http://www.kvhealthcare.org/mission-and-vision.

KVH puts ‘employee care’ high on the priority list, with health benefits like low cost medical, dental, and vision insurance and a robust employee wellness program. KVH offers company contribution toward your choice of medical, dental, and vision insurance coverage, including coverage available for spouses/ domestic partners, and dependent children. KVH believes that continuing education is critical to our mission and vision.  We have implemented many educational programs such as the Medical Assistant Apprenticeship program and certification pay toS  encourage continuing education.  We want our employees to know they are valued. One of the ways we show this is by quickly vesting employees, making them pension eligible after just one year of part-time status. To view more details about the comprehensive benefits package we offer to eligible employees visit our website -

Benefits - KV Healthcare

www.kvhealthcare.org

Job Description

The Medical Record Coder is responsible for accurately coding inpatient, outpatient, and Emergency patient records, utilizing current coding methodologies. This position will be expected to cross-train to other positions within Health Information Management.

Qualifications

What is required...

• High School Diploma or GED;
• One of the following certifications; RHIA, RHIT, CPC, CCS, CCA  from the American Health Information Management Association or American Academy of Professional Coders;

What is preferred...

• One year of coding experience in a hospital setting

Additional Information

Wage:  Wage range starts at $25.01/hour and goes up to $38.66/hour. Actual wage will be based on years' of applicable experience. 

FTE:  1.0 = 40 hours/week

Benefits:  This position is benefits eligible 

Union Status:  This is a non-represented position

The first 30 days of this position will be in office, and remote eligibility will be evaluated at that time.

Once remote, position will require one day per week in the office in Ellensburg, WA.