Medical Records Specialist

Medical Record Specialist

Pacific Grove Hospital in Riverside, CA, is a leader in behavioral healthcare, providing superior healthcare treatment to the people, communities, and military installations we serve. We are a private inpatient 68 bed acute psychiatric facility with out-patient services, dedicated to the treatment of behavioral health and substance abuse services. Pacific Grove Hospital is proud to be a part of the Acadia Healthcare family.

We are seeking a Medical Record Specialist to assist with maintaining medical record integrity through filing, assembling, analysis, and retrieving confidential patient records.

The schedule for this position is 6am-2:30pm and 8am-4:30pm. Your schedule will rotate week to week on this schedule. This will be a schedule of 24 hours per week.

Pay range: $25-29 DOE

Pacific Grove Hospital offers the following benefit package for benefit-eligible staff:

• Competitive wages
• Paid time off (vacation, sick, & personal days)
• 8 paid Holidays
• Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance
• FSA and HSA plans available
• Company paid life insurance
• Employee Assistance Program
• 401k with annual match
• Employee Discount Program

Essential Functions:

• Prepare and assemble medical records.
• Organize and analyze medical records for accuracy and completeness.
• Identify, track, and enter practitioner deficiencies in Medhost.
• Pull charts as requested for audits, peer review, readmissions, HBIPS processing and route to appropriate area or department.
• Ensure files are stored in the designated area according to storage procedures.
• Maintain and search computerized medical records.
• Maintain chart control, access, and storage in accordance with established policies, procedures, and regulations.
• Process medical records requests according to policy and procedure.
• Scan records to contract coders for processing, when applicable.
• Assist with HIM department audits including HBIPS, CMS Quality Measures, and concurrent reviews.
• Pick up discharge records from patient units.
• Assemble new admission folders, if applicable.
• Print and deliver medical records forms to patient units.
• Search and print dictated reports from computerized transcription system.
• Purge and inventory medical records for off-site storage.
• Promotes quality improvement, staff and patient safety, and cultural diversity through department operations and by personal performance.

Education/Experience/Skill Requirements:

• High School diploma or equivalent required.
• Three or more years' experience in psychiatric setting or combination of education and experience necessary.

Licenses/Designations/Certifications:

• RHIT or RHIA preferred.

We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all applicants for employment regardless of an individual's characteristics protected by applicable state, federal, and local laws.