Job Description

Align yourself with an organization that has a reputation for excellence! Cedars Sinai was awarded the National Research Corporation?s Consumer Choice Award 19 years in a row for providing the highest-quality medical care in Los Angeles. We were also awarded the Advisory Board Workplace of the Year. Join us. Discover why U.S. News & World Report has named us one of America?s Best Hospitals!

What will you be doing in this role?

The Health Information Department's Health Information Technician II (HIT II) is responsible for performing specialized health information activities related to the organization, maintenance, privacy, and use of the electronic and paper patient health records. This onsite role is in Torrance. Primary Duties for this role include:

• Addresses customer inquiries for patient information, assists callers with making record requests and general customer service. Educate customers on information confidentiality and privacy regulations. Receive and prioritize customer requests from multiple sources and work them through the appropriate systems to completion within required response time-frames and in accordance to State and Federal requirements and HIPAA regulations.
• Receives and prioritizes customer requests from multiple sources and works them through the appropriate systems to completion within required response time-frames and in accordance to State and Federal requirements and HIPAA regulations.
• Analyzes and prepares deficiency reports. Receives requests to research, add providers, and updates or add SER provider demographic information for multiple systems. Resolve Provider identifiers and duplicate provider identification numbers.
• Assists physicians in system navigation and completing record/document requirements and deficiencies in accordance to regulatory, Joint Commission, Title 22 and organizational requirements. Notifies physicians that are non-compliant and pending suspensions. 
• Responds to internal and external requests for assistance. Monitors daily concurrent compliance with documentation completion timeliness standard(s). Queries and researches within multiple hospital systems to assess compliance with documentation requirements. Monitors completion of work queues to confirm and update status of documentation.

Qualifications

Requirements:

• High School diploma or GED diploma required. AA degree or college courses in a related field preferred.
• A minimum of 2 years' experience working in Health Information, Medical Records or a related field required.
• Registered Health Info Tech (RHIT) credential preferred.
   

Experience/Skills Sought:

Strong medical terminology skills.
Basic knowledge of ICD-10.
Attention to detail, advanced problem solving and high analytic skills.
Demonstrated proficiency with Microsoft Suite (Word, Excel, Outlook, etc.)
Detailed knowledge of the medical record content and chart organization.
Detailed knowledge of documentation and privacy regulatory standards.
Strong customer service and interpersonal skills. English language proficiency, written and spoken. Bilingual preferred
Strong data analysis and research skills for error corrections. Knowledge of EMR, EPIC, and hospital computer systems. 

Why work here?
Beyond outstanding employee benefits including health and dental insurance, vacation, and a 403(b) we take pride in hiring the best, most passionate employees. Our accomplished staff reflects the culturally and ethnically diverse community we serve. They are proof of our commitment to creating a dynamic, inclusive environment that fuels innovation.

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About Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

Providing healthcare for more than 100 years, Cedars-Sinai has evolved into one of the most dynamic and highly renowned medical centers in the world. Along with caring for patients, Cedars-Sinai is a hub for biomedical research and a training center for future physicians and other healthcare professionals. This attracts exceptional talent to Cedars-Sinai, including world-renowned physician-scientists who seek a place where they can both conduct research and see patients--the ideal formula for discovery and its translation into cures. Our patients benefit from access to doctors at the top of their fields, and our researchers have an ideal community in which to study the impact of healthcare challenges, and reflect that knowledge in their research. The greater Los Angeles area in which Cedars-Sinai resides possesses unparalleled cultural and ethnic diversity which offers outstanding opportunities for translational and clinical research and a dynamic environment for medical education.Although community based, Cedars-Sinai is a major teaching hospital affiliated with the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Cedars-Sinai has highly competi...tive graduate medical education programs in more than 50 specialty and subspecialty areas, a graduate program in biomedical sciences and translational medicine, a clinical scholars program directed towards junior physicians with aspirations to become clinical scientists, and post graduate training opportunities.There are more than 250 full-time faculty members at Cedars-Sinai. The voluntary medical staff, comprised of more than 2,200 specialty board-certified or board-qualified physicians, represent all of the specialties and subspecialties and collaborate with full-time medical staff in the teaching responsibilities of the graduate medical education programs.

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