Medical Coder

About the job

About the offer

GHOL is the reference hospital for the Western Lake Geneva region with its facilities in Nyon and Rolle. Tomorrow, we offer you the opportunity to continue your professional development by engaging in your new duties and participating in the development of GHOL, within its new hospital building on the Nyon site.

Job description:

In your new role, your duties impact the quality of patient care. Your role will notably include:

• Ensuring the coding of acute and rehabilitation hospital cases for all GHOL specialties, according to ICD and CHOP classifications, respecting current regulations, ensuring faithful reflection of medical and nursing care.
• Validating the final coding in Opale, checking the completeness of the file, the coherence of the obtained DRG, and associated variables.
• Guaranteeing the justification of coding for cases followed with payers and within quality controls, defending the institution's interests as best as possible.
• Actively participating in coding closures (monthly, quarterly, and annual).
• Maintaining active monitoring and anticipating changes in coding catalogues.
• Collaborating closely with doctors and nursing teams to ensure complete documentation and comprehensive coding.
• Raising awareness among doctors and medical-nursing teams about the importance and impacts of coding.

Other activities:

• Ensuring the completeness and quality of stay documentation to guarantee precise and compliant coding.
• Contributing to the continuous improvement of coding tools and associated support materials.
• Proposing and implementing improvements aimed at optimising medical documentation and coding processes.
• Actively participating in working groups and institutional reflections aimed at strengthening the quality of clinical documentation and coding.
• Contributing to the optimisation of the ICM through appropriate valorisation of medical documentation and efficient use of coding tools.

Contributing to training;

• Maintaining and developing skills through regular participation in continuing education.
• Integrating and applying changes in coding catalogues in daily practice.
• Actively contributing to internal continuing education by sharing expertise.
• Participating in the integration and training of new colleagues.

Required profile:

We are confident in your rapid integration into your future role thanks to your:

• Minimum 3 years of confirmed experience in the role
• Experience in the hospital sector
• Excellent mastery of SwissDRG and ST-Reha tariff structures
• Analytical skills and ability to propose solutions
• Flexibility and good stress management
• Good command of IT tools (Soarian, Portpat, Opale, Kodip, Intensive Care)
• Interest in innovation and new developments related to your sector

Education level:

• Higher education diploma or equivalent qualification in the medical, nursing or medico-technical field required (ideally nurse with operating theatre specialisation).
• Medical coding training certification desired
• Federal specialist diploma in medical coding would be an asset

Benefits:

A pleasant working environment, with flexible hours and the possibility of remote work.

Attractive remuneration conditions, which may take into account performance and individual contributions.

A human-sized team promoting exchange, collaboration and professional development.

Collaborate with innovative managers, active in their environment and creative in responding to current and future challenges;

The opportunity to participate in the development of artificial intelligence tools, within data science projects at the institution.

The advantages of a private structure recognised as serving the public interest, offering working conditions governed by the collective labour agreement of the parapublic health sector.