About this role
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Role Title:Inpatient Coder
Role Type: Contractor
Location:United States, Remote
our partner is engaging Inpatient 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 clinical documentation for accuracy, completeness, and coding integrity.
- Evaluate AI-generated clinical notes and summaries against real-world documentation and coding standards.
- Validate alignment between clinical documentation and assigned codes.
- Write prompts that test how an AI handles real healthcare administrative work, including billing and coding, insurance and prior authorization, scheduling, and regulatory compliance.
- Correct the code/data when the model falls short, grounded in day-to-day operational experience.
Required Qualifications
- Active coding certification such as CIC, CCS or CPC.
- Inpatient ICD-10-CM coding experience, including DRG, MCC/CC, and POA concepts.
- Demonstrated expertise in reviewing and abstracting information from EMRs.
- Strong analytical skills and the ability to interpret complex clinical documentation.
- Availability of at least 10 hours per week.
- US-based.
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, and the effective hourly rate will depend on the number of tasks completed and successfully signed off times the selected rate.
This is a 100% remote contract role. Applicants must be located in: United States.
