Quality Assurance Lead

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Job description

Description

At UCLA Health, our advanced information technology plays a critical role in elevating our overall patient care and delivering positive patient experiences. Your passion and specialized expertise will help us enhance our award-winning technological capabilities. Join us and experience a career of unmatched challenges and profound rewards.

As an experienced CTR, you will perform quality reviews/control on completed abstracts for cancer reporting to the State to comply with a 97% or higher accuracy rate, comply with COC Quality Standards, and ensure quality data for research and other data requests. You will act as a lead resource for abstracting and reportability of cases for other Cancer Registry staff and help train new staff. You will perform periodic review and sampling of abstracts for required accuracy, with expectation of less than 3% error rate, and review and manage the Cancer Surveillance Program correction requests.

At UCLA Health, our passion for leveraging state-of-the-art technology to support world-class patient care has enabled us to become an internationally renowned health system with four award-winning hospitals and more than 270 community clinics throughout Southern California. We're also home to the world-class medical research and clinical education capabilities of the David Geffen School of Medicine. If you're looking to experience greater challenge and fulfillment in your career, come to UCLA Health.

Fully Remote Schedule: Monday - Friday; 8:00am - 5:00pm (PST)

Annual Salary Range: $76,200.00 - $158,800.00

Qualifications

• CTR certification required
• Prefer 10+ years abstracting experience
• Have CoC and Tumor board experience
• Experience using CNEXT, EPIC, and MS Office software
• Must meet productivity standards and State quality standards
• Detailed knowledge of the American College of Surgeon standards, California Cancer Registry and SEER standards.
• Detailed knowledge of medical terminology, anatomy, pathology, and disease processes.
• Detailed knowledge of ICD-0 coding classification scheme
• Ability to abstract clinical information from patient records and code data accurately into Cancer Registry database and follow-up if additional information is needed.
• Excellent organizational skills in maintaining Cancer Data files.
• Skill in prioritizing and performing a variety of duties within a system that has constantly changing priorities, assignments, and deadlines.
• Detailed knowledge of laws, rules and regulations affecting the confidentiality of medical information.
• Skill in working independently and following through on assignments in an environment with frequent interruptions.
• Skill in writing legibly and in using basic English words to complete concise documentation.
• Knowledge and understanding of functions and activities of various hospital departments contacted for source information to expeditiously coordinate follow up procedures.
• Ability to work independently and exercise appropriate decisions in determining follow up actions and complete assignments in a timely manner.
• Ability to judge system/procedure malfunction/discrepancies and circumstances to be referred to supervisor for immediate action.
• Strong oral and written communication skills for the purposes of conveying information to individuals at various organizational levels and the public and in completing concise documentation.
• Advanced MS Office skills

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