Employment Type : Full-Time
Hourly Base Rate: $13.58 - $19.01Shift: DaysHours Per Week: 40 hours/weekDate Posted: 9/9/2021 Education/Licensing: High school diploma or GED required. College coursework in medical record practices preferred. Qualifications/Skills: Prepare, scan and index all records for the EMR (electronic medical record) system. Accurately analyze and reanalyze patient records in compliance with hospital policies and procedures. Maintain current knowledge of release of information laws including HIPPA and hospital wide policy and procedures. Demonstrate knowledge of technical medical record practices. Assist with the training of new staff. Provide ongoing mentoring to current staff. Assist with performance improvement activities. Provide office coverage, answering telephones, assisting physicians with record completion, assisting with walk-in customers as needed. Establish and maintain working relationships that foster teamwork and effective communication.
Position Purpose: The Medical Records Clerk Specialist participates as a member of the Medical Records services by performing technical and specialized medical record functions in an accurate, timely and complete manner. These duties involve a combination of the following: Receptionist functions, retrieving discharged charts from patient nursing units, filing records, prepping, scanning and indexing discharged charts for the EMR (electronic medical record) system. All specialists must demonstrate the ability to provide qualitative and quantitative analysis and reanalysis of all patient positions, are responsible for answering the telephone as needed, follow up on requests, assisting physicians, tracking charts in and out of department, delivering charts to requesting unit.