Job Details: Coding Specialist

Description: Parkview Health is currently offer an outstanding opportunity to join our growing team as a Coding Specialist.
Responsible for abstracting and coding all inpatient and/or outpatient records according to established procedures and standards.

Credentials of RHIA, RHIT and/or CCS at time of hire preferred. Candidates with formalized acute care coding education by an AHIMA accredited program and/or three years of acute-care hospital coding experience will be considered with the requirement for taking and passing the associated credentialing exam within six months of hire as a condition for continuing in the position.

Who is Parkview Health?
Parkview Health, northeast Indiana's only not-for-profit health system, is a seven-hospital, 'A' rated organization with financial ratios ranked among the nations top health systems. The system's seven hospitals employ 6,300. Our financial stability allows us to return dollars as investments in the communities we serve. Parkview Health offers careers in hospitals, physician clinics, long-term care facilities, home health and hospice, laboratory, EMS, and research center serving a 15 county region in Indiana and Ohio. Parkview Health's mission is to provide trusted quality care and to improve the health of the communities it serves.

We are the fourth largest Hospital in Indiana and an employer of choice in Fort Wayne. We combine high tech with high touch, giving our patients the best medical care possible. Parkview is a recipient of the Most Wired for the last three years. Parkview operates the Samaritan Flight Program and a hospital-based hospitalist and intensivist/eICU® program and the Parkview Heart Institute. The central Allen County campus is also home to Parkview Behavioral Health, a nationally verified Level II Adult & Pediatric Trauma Center, certified stroke center, accredited comprehensive cancer center and accredited chest pain center. The north campus includes Parkview North Hospital and the Orthopedic Hospital at Parkview North.

In 2008, ground will be broken for a new 524-bed tertiary care facility on the north campus-the Parkview Regional Medical Center-to serve the medical needs of patients in the region. The new facility is being planned with new technology focused on patient safety and improved outcomes and staff/physician efficiencies. The facility will be open by 2011.

Parkview offers outstanding benefits, opportunity for growth and an atmosphere of excellence. Sign-on bonus also available for Coding Specialist. EOE
To apply for this position please visit our website at www.parkview.com or contact and/or send resume directly to: leon.brown@parkview.com

Leon Brown, Healthcare Recruiter
Parkview Health
10501 Corporate Drive
Fort Wayne, Indiana 46845
ph - 260-373-7071
fx - 260-373-7090

Posting Date: May 20 08