Coding/Billing Specialist, Billing, Heywood Medical Group, 40-Hours, Days, Hybrid
Heywood HospitalMassachusetts, United States
Posted November 11, 2025
Full Time
About the Company
Heywood Healthcare is an independent community healthcare system serving north central Massachusetts and southern New Hampshire. Comprising Heywood Hospital (134 beds) and Athol Hospital (25 beds), along with a network of primary care facilities, the company offers a wide range of services including orthopedics, obstetrics and gynecology, behavioral health, heart and vascular care, endocrinology, nutrition, and diabetes management. With a focus on comprehensive healthcare and community support, Heywood Healthcare provides accessible, high-quality medical services to its region.
Job Description
Coding Specialist will review medical records, abstract diagnosis, and add codes to surgical and outpatient accounts. Accurate and timely coding is essential.
Requirements
- Acquires knowledge to keep up with changes in technology and regulations
- Shares knowledge and expertise to help others improve performance
- Continuously prioritizes projects, activities, and tasks to ensure deadlines and customer needs are met
- Reviews medical records to code accurately all diagnoses and/or procedures using coding guidelines
- Enters all codes into the Meditech Computer System
- Creates and runs a list of unbilled accounts on a weekly basis
- Collaborates with Director Of HIM or Supervisor of Daily Operations to assess coding needs
- Maintains good communication with physicians, other Medical Records Staff, and all personnel throughout the hospital
- Retrieves any missing documentation and information from physicians and other departments prior to coding
Benefits
- Competitive wages
- Great benefits
- Generous earned time off
