Mid Coding Specialist III, General Surgery

SUMMARY

UT Southwestern Medical Center has a new opportunity for a Mid Coding Specialist III who will code General Surgery cases. The successful candidate will work under general supervision to perform advanced, accurate, and compliant coding of high-complexity surgical, procedural, and interventional specialties within a specialized academic medical center environment.

Exercises independent judgment in the review of encounters characterized by high documentation variability, evolving intraoperative findings, multi-procedure operative cases, complex bundling and add-on logic, advanced payer nuance and regulatory interpretation, device-intensive procedures, validation of incident-to/split-shared services, and teaching physician documentation compliance. 

Ability to articulate billing related questions with physicians on staff. 

Supports audit and denial escalation review and evaluates and resolves high-risk AI-assisted coding exceptio...