Health Information Management Specialist

Nuvance Health has a network of convenient hospital and outpatient locations — Danbury Hospital, New Milford Hospital, Norwalk Hospital and Sharon Hospital in Connecticut, and Northern Dutchess Hospital, Putnam Hospital Center and Vassar Brothers Medical Center in New York — plus multiple primary and specialty care physician practices locations, including The Heart Center, a leading provider of cardiology care. Non-acute care is offered through various affiliates,
Summary:
The HIM Specialist is responsible for the timely processing and completion of all hospital-based medical records. Responsibilities include, but are not limited to document retrieval, prepping, scanning, indexing, quality control, analysis, validation, and record completion for all discharged medical records.
Responsibilities:
Retrieves prepares, and assembles permanent record documents in the required order for scanning, ensuring that all pages are properly identified and labeled.
Scans documents according to established department procedures, and maintains scanning equipment to ensure optimal image quality.
Manually indexes documents if automated indexing fails, and rearranges documents as needed.
Performs quality control review on all documents throughout the stages of prepping, scanning and indexing and makes necessary corrections upon identification of errors.
Demonstrates the ability to identify serious quality issues in the scanned document and take appropriate corrective action.
Performs qualitative record review and analysis following established departmental procedures to ensure the documentation in the medical record complies with applicable hospital Rules and Regulations and regulatory standards.
Assigns deficiencies to practitioners and assists clinicians with questions related to medical record completion.
Achieves and maintains established accuracy and productivity standards.
Coordinates daily/weekly delinquent record data collection, physician communication, and related documentation to ensure that identified deficiencies are completed in accordance with hospital Rules and Regulations.
Performs other related duties, as required.
Location: Norwalk-34 Maple St
Work Type: Full-Time
Standard Hours: 40.00
FTE: 1.000000
Work Schedule: Day 8
Work Shift: 8-4:30
Org Unit: 291
Department: Health Information Management
Exempt: No
Grade: S4
Salary Range:
$16.3200 - $31.0500 Hourly
Working conditions:
Essential:

• Some manual skills / motor coord & finger dexterity
• Generally pleasant working conditions.
• Sedentary/light effort. May exert up to 10 lbs. force
• Little or no potential for occupational risk

EOE, including disability/vets.
We will endeavor to make a reasonable accommodation to the known physical or mental limitations of a qualified applicant with a disability unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship on the operation of our business. If you believe you require such assistance to complete this form or to participate in an interview, please contact Human Resources at 203-739-7330 (for reasonable accommodation requests only). Please provide all information requested to assure that you are considered for current or future opportunities.