Medical Records Technician (Office Automation)

Review and screen incoming inpatient, outpatient and ambulatory procedure visit records for compliance with established criteria. Review records and files, assembling loose reports, and properly verify each jacket for patient identification making additions/corrections as necessary. Verify selected inpatient and ambulatory procedure visit records with computer generated patient indexes to ensure a record is present. Research and retrieve inpatient and ambulatory procedure records from the archive system. Separate records into distinct shipments by patient category depending upon designated retention periods in accordance with guidelines, ensuring proper sequencing in terminal digit order. Prepare and label boxes and packs records accordingly. Utilize Patient Record Tracking (PRT) system to generate record retirement index. Check out records in the Medical Tracking Module and track the location of the record. Subject Matter Expert (SME) on proper retirement and retrieval of records at a