Certified Inpatient Medical Coder

micro1; United States; Remote; USD 55,000 - 83,000; Part time

Job summary

micro1 is a data lab that helps AI labs train models and agents, focusing on high-value domains and data quality. They seek a Certified Inpatient Medical Coder (contractor) to enhance medical data accuracy for client projects and to train AI systems with real-world input.

Remote work available across the United States. Responsibilities include reviewing inpatient records, ensuring correct ICD-10-CM/PCS coding, validating MS-DRG, and providing clear feedback to improve model performance.

Qualifications

• Active CIC or CCS or AHIMA/AAPC certification.
• Inpatient ICD-10-CM/PCS coding experience.
• Access to official ICD-10-CM/PCS materials and Coding Clinic guidance.
• Experience in inpatient medical coding or related documentation role.

Responsibilities

• Review and analyze inpatient records to ensure accurate ICD-10-CM/PCS coding.
• Review documentation for accuracy, completeness and coding integrity.
• Identify principal/secondary diagnoses and assign POA indicators.
• Validate MS-DRG assignment and flag CCs/MCCs and HACs.
• Evaluate AI-generated notes against documentation and standards.
• Code AI-generated data from records using ICD-10-CM/PCS.
• Resolve discrepancies to maintain data integrity.
• Provide written feedback to improve model performance.

Skills

Inpatient Coding

Inpatient Records

ICD-10

CIC

CPC

AAPC

CPT

Job description

pay

Required Skills

• Inpatient Coding
• Inpatient Records
• ICD-10
• CIC
• CPC
• AAPC
• CPT

About micro1

micro1 is a data lab that helps AI labs & Enterprises train foundational models and agents. We provide frontier evaluations and reinforcement learning environments to improve LLM capabilities, as well as contextual evaluations to monitor and improve AI agents in enterprise settings.

Our AI recruiting agent sources and vets domain experts for our data platform that enables rapid production of high-quality training data. Our research spans high-value, specialized domains (legal, medical, finance, coding, etc.), where expert-level data is the hardest to produce and most valuable for advanced model performance. Our pipeline performance system ensures both quality and velocity.

Role Title: Certified Inpatient Medical Coder

Role Type: Contractor

Location: United States, Remote

micro1 is engaging a Certified Inpatient Medical Coder to contribute to a customer's project focused on enhancing medical data accuracy and integrity. In this role, you'll apply your 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 and analyze inpatient medical records to ensure accurate ICD-10-CM and ICD-10-PCS coding in alignment with current guidelines and best practices.
• Review clinical documentation for accuracy, completeness, and coding integrity.
• Identify principal and secondary diagnoses, sequence codes per the Official Guidelines, and assign Present on Admission (POA) indicators.
• Validate MS-DRG assignment, including identification of CCs and MCCs, and flag hospital-acquired conditions (HACs) and patient safety indicators.
• Evaluate AI-generated clinical notes and summaries against real-world documentation and coding standards.
• Code AI-generated diagnostic and procedural information from the record using ICD-10-CM and ICD-10-PCS classification systems.
• Identify and resolve discrepancies in diagnosis and procedure coding, ensuring the integrity of record abstraction and data capture.
• Provide clear written feedback on coding errors and complex cases to improve model performance.

Preferred Qualifications

• Active certification in one of the following: CIC or CCS, or other coding certification through AHIMA and AAPC (e.g., RHIA, RHIT, COC).
• Inpatient ICD-10-CM/PCS coding experience.
• Access to up-to-date official ICD-10-CM/PCS coding books and Coding Clinic guidance.
• Currently working in inpatient medical coding, clinical documentation improvement, or a closely related documentation role.
• Availability of at least 10 hours per week.
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