Coding Quality Analyst – Inpatient
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Job Description
Coding Quality Analyst auditing inpatient cases for UW Health, Wisconsin’s #1 hospital. Ensuring coding compliance, improving quality, and training inpatient coders.
Responsibilities:
- Assess the accuracy and completeness of inpatient case coding through retrospective and concurrent audits
- Ensure compliance with coding guidelines and regulatory requirements
- Provide feedback to coding team members regarding audit results
- Respond to coding questions
- Assist with training and onboarding new Inpatient Coders, including auditing
- Maintain internal coding guidelines
- Research, prepare, and disseminate information related to official coding guidance updates
- Collaborate with Coding and CDI Quality Analyst teams on DRG issues and other operational activities
- Participate in internal and external secondary coding reviews
Requirements:
- Graduate of a medical coding program required, or two (2) years of Coding experience may be considered in lieu of the medical coding program in addition to the experience below
- Three years of progressive acute care hospital inpatient coding experience, including experience coding MS-DRGs and APR-DRGs, required
- Certified Coding Specialist (CCS), or Certified Inpatient Coder (CIC) required
- Graduate of a Health Information Technology Program preferred
- Five years or more of inpatient coding experience in an academic medical center preferred
- Experience with coding quality audits and improvement projects preferred
- Training experience preferred
- Registered Health Information Technician (RHIT), Registered Health Information Administrator (RHIA) preferred
- Must be in an approved remote work state for UW Health to be eligible to work remotely
Benefits:
- An excellent benefits package, including health and dental insurance
- Paid time off
- Retirement plans
- Two-week paid parental leave and adoption assistance
- Options for a variety of schedules and shifts that offer flexibility and allow for work-life balance
- Access to resources through the UW Health Employee Wellbeing Department supporting emotional, financial, and physical well-being
- Tuition benefits eligibility for coursework associated with career advancement
- Opportunity to earn a referral bonus for referring friends, former colleagues or others to apply for open, posted positions




















