Inpatient Medical Coder
Pay: $50-$70/hrType: ContractorRemote: Yes
About this role
Role Title: Inpatient Medical Coder
Role Type: Contractor
Location: United States, Remote
micro1 is engaging Inpatient Medical Coders to contribute to a valued project focused on enhancing inpatient clinical coding accuracy and data quality. In this role, you’ll apply your facility coding expertise to help train next-generation AI systems. Your work will shape how models learn, reason, and perform through high-quality, real-world input.
Scope of Work
- Review inpatient medical records to ensure accurate ICD-10-CM and ICD-10-PCS coding in line with current guidelines.
- Determine the principal and secondary diagnoses for the full admission.
- Assess how MCCs, CCs, and procedures affect DRG assignment.
- Review clinical documentation for accuracy and completeness, and flag opportunities for provider queries.
- Evaluate AI-generated clinical notes and summaries against real-world medical documentation.
- Review AI-generated code suggestions for compliance with inpatient coding standards.
- Identify and resolve diagnosis and procedure coding discrepancies to protect data integrity.
- Enter and validate AI-generated patient information in inpatient medical record and encoder systems.
Preferred Qualifications
- Active coding certification such as CIC, CCS or CPC.
- Inpatient ICD-10-CM and ICD-10-PCS coding experience, including DRG, MCC/CC, and POA concepts.
- Access to current official ICD-10 code sets and guidelines, and familiarity with AHA Coding Clinic.
- Currently working in inpatient coding, clinical documentation improvement, or a closely related role.
- Availability of at least 10 hours per week.
Compensation Structure:
- Compensation is task based, meaning experts are paid per completed task that meets the project specifications.
- The average handling time (AHT) is approximately 1 hour per task. task, and the effective hourly rate will depend on the number of tasks completed and successfully signed off times the selected rate.
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Details
- Pay: $50 to $70/hr
- Company: micro1
- Location: Remote
- Eligible locations: United States
- Platform: micro1
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