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Wellstar Health System · 5 hours ago

Coding Data Analyst

Atlanta, GA

Full-time

Onsite

Mid Level

3+ years exp

Wellstar Health System is committed to enhancing health and well-being through compassionate care. They are looking for a Coding Data Analyst to leverage coding expertise and drive documentation improvement, data integrity, and process optimization, collaborating with multidisciplinary teams and utilizing advanced analytics to enhance care quality and safety.

FitnessHealth Care

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Defines problems, collects data, establishes facts, and draws valid conclusions

Accurately completes timely reports as requested by CDI and Coding Leadership in an executive summary format

Ensure and maintain the integrity of data that is utilized for any reports or dashboards

Provides other documentation or reports, as requested by the leadership, including but not limited to EPIC, 3M, Coding & CDI Auditing Software, other external data, etc

Communicates trends identified in CDI and Coding reviews and makes suggestions for continual process improvement to CDI and Coding leadership in the form of written and verbal reports

Utilizes Excel or other platforms to build, compiles and distributes scheduled departmental data dashboards

Collaborates with multidisciplinary teams to develop analytic strategies to assess the quality and safety of care, and associated activities for the Outpatient and Inpatient Documentation Improvement efforts, provided at WellStar Health System

Oversees and maintains shared data sources (all spreadsheets/templates) for CDI and Coding departments and annually updates/reviews for data and departmental intranet page(s)

Utilize reporting functionality in the EPIC/EPSi, 3M 360 Encompass, Vizient and any other data sources

Assists CDI and Coding leadership with ad hoc report creation and completion of data projects for daily operations

Interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and deal with several abstract and concrete variables

Conducts validation of reports and special project tasks to support the CDI/Coding functions and ensure appropriate data is entered, captured and reported for the accuracy and completeness of clinical information used for measuring and reporting physician and hospital outcomes

Build systems to transform raw data into actionable business insights

Plans and oversees data related projects and timelines, considering the outlined scope and the overall departmental priorities and vision

Takes initiative to identify and apply best practices for data analytics relevant to CDI and Coding in both outpatient and inpatient settings

Partners with CDI, Coding, CI and IT Connect teams and makes suggestions for technology improvements, optimization and efficiencies for operational data

Serves on work teams as needed for operational and technical projects to provide CDI point of view

Represents the CDI Department on all CDI-related IT projects, sitting on project teams, coordinating, and performing testing, and communicating issues and resolution

Acts as a super user for CDI and Coding analytics tools; provide education to internal and external stakeholders

Participates in monthly, quarterly, and other CDI and Coding application testing, including reviewing documentation, preparing test plans, testing, validating, and preparing training materials and communications for the Outpatient and Inpatient CDI/Coding stakeholder departments

Available to act as a technology training resource for WellStar CDI and Coding team members, mentoring them on relevant software and applications, IT related issues, and other questions, as needed

Works on miscellaneous CDI and Coding IT initiatives and projects, as needed

Understands business needs and objectives, and has the flexibility to adjust to shifting departmental priorities

In collaboration with Leadership, presents trends and report metrics relevant for CDI and Coding

Shows eagerness towards understanding customer needs to assess for data applicability

Provides data interpretation services for key customers

Performs other duties as assigned

Qualification

Inpatient Coding expertiseCertified Health Data AnalystData AnalysisAdvanced Microsoft ExcelTableauMicrosoft PowerBICDICoding proficiencyLogical reasoningAnalytical skillsData aggregationEpic3M 360 EncompassVizientDRGsHCCRAFDatabase managementHealthcare regulations knowledgeCoding guidelines knowledgeHealthcare metricsWritten communicationVerbal communicationOrganizational abilitiesAttention to detailProblem-solving aptitudeTime managementCollaboration skills

Required

Bachelors Health Science or Bachelors Health Administration or Bachelors Statistics or Bachelors Other

Certified Health Data Analyst (CHDA) from AHIMA within 1 Year Required or

Registered Health Information Administrator (RHIA) from AHIMA within 1 Year Required or

Registered Health Information Technician (RHIT) from AHIMA within 1 Year Required

Minimum 3 years Relevant data reporting and analytics experience, including working in Tableau environment and/or Microsoft PowerBI

Advanced Microsoft Excel skills

Must exercise strong logical reasoning skills and business intelligence

Exceptional written and verbal communication skills

Analytical Skills And Strong Organizational Abilities

Comfortable applying data analysis and reporting concepts

Attention to detail

Problem-solving aptitude

Time management skills

Ability to collaborate with other departments to achieve departmental and organizational goals

Ability to review data from multiple sources and aggregate into meaningful, actionable information for use within and outside of the CDI and Coding departments

Preferred

Proficiency in CDI or coding, including chart review experience

Familiarity with Epic, 3M 360 Encompass and Vizient

Understanding of diagnosis related groups (DRGs), Hierarchical Condition Category (HCC) & Risk-Adjustment Factor (RAF)

Database management experience

Background in healthcare regulations and coding guidelines

Familiarity with standard healthcare-related metrics

Company

Wellstar Health System

Glassdoor3.6

The largest health system in Georgia.

Founded in 1993

Marietta, Georgia, USA

10001+ employees

https://www.wellstar.org

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