Certified Clinical Coder

Job description / Role

As Qatar's leading medical services organization, we are offering you an exciting opportunity to be a part of our dedicated and enthusiastic team of healthcare professionals.

Our healthcare services are internationally recognized as a high standard, comparable with other developed countries. We have a countrywide network of hospitals and healthcare centers which utilize the most advanced medical equipment available today and provide care from highly qualified staff.

Now is your chance to be part of this world-class team!

Within the Mission, Vision and Values of HMC and the Department of the Corporation the incumbent is responsible to achieve the corporations targets for standards of accuracy, completeness, and timeliness of clinically coded data.

The incumbent is also responsible for developing coder-clinician interaction and should demonstrate a high standard of clinical coding activity, to ensure that both clinicians and managers maintain a high level of confidence in the quality of the data.

Principal Accountabilities:
- Achieves the corporations targets for standards of accuracy, completeness, and timeliness of clinically coded data.
- Maintains and further enhances the levels of coder-clinician interaction.
- Demonstrates the continued achievement of high standards of clinical coding in order to ensure that both clinicians and managers maintain a high level of confidence in the quality of the data
- Assists in the development of a clinical coding training programme for staff.
- Keeps abreast of clinical coding standards, reporting, and information policies
- Assists in the development of a Clinical Coding Audit programme involving clinician and clinical coders.
- Assembles medical records in standard order.
- Checks and analyzes medical records for accuracy, adequacy and consistency of documentation.
- Assigns appropriate codes for each diagnosis, operation and procedure based on the International Classification of Diseases and Procedures.
- Prepares deficiency slips for incomplete records.
- Collates generated abstracts from medical records and inputs information into the computer.
- Records abstracts on discharge list.
- Assists in data gathering for research, studies, and statistics.
- Accounts for daily discharges and performs audit as necessary.
- Performs other duties as required

Requirements

- Certified Coding Specialist (CCS) certificate from the American Health Information Management Association or home-country coding certificate
- Minimum 2-3 years experience in medical records/health information and ICD coding

Preferred Education:
- Degree in Medical Records/Health Information, Allied Health Sciences, Medicine, or Nursing

Preferred Experience:
- 5 years in ICD 10 coding, prefer ICD 10AM
- Good training background in coding and reimbursement

Licensure/ Registration:
- Recognized certificate in coding qualification: CHIMA, AHIMA,HIMA, NCCQ, or home country equivalent

Language Skills:
- English essential, Arabic preferred

Key Competencies:
- Human anatomy
- Medical terminology
- Physiology
- Pathology and other hospital environment

If interested, kindly apply directly on http://www.healthcarejobs.hamad.qa/en/

About the Company

Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC) is the principal public healthcare provider for the State of Qatar. HMC is committed to actively contributing to and enabling the sustainable development of Qatar and its people in alignment with the Qatar National Vision (QNV) 2030.

HMC believes in excellence in healthcare, education and research with each supporting the other to provide the safest, most effective and compassionate care to each and every one of our patients.

To meet the healthcare challenges of Qatars growing population, Hamad has transformed into a thriving and integrated Academic Health System which will make significant, positive impacts upon patient care, medical education and medical research.

In addition to three general hospitals (Al Khor Hospital, Al Wakra Hospital and The Cuban Hospital) HMC also manages five specialist hospitals (Hamad General Hospital, Rumailah Hospital, Womens Hospital, the National Center for Cancer Care and Research and Heart Hospital) which look after patients with the most prevalent conditions, including cancer, heart conditions, rehabilitation, and providing specialist treatment for women and children.