Remote Emergency Department Coder – Precision Coding

Cognizant; Cheyenne (WY); Remote; USD 63,000 - 71,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary annual incentive

Fully remote role

Job summary

Cognizant is seeking an Emergency Department Coder to ensure the accuracy, quality, and compliance of medical coding across outpatient settings. You will collaborate with the Health Information Management team, physicians, and stakeholders to support regulatory compliance and revenue integrity.

This fully remote role requires CPC/CCS certification, strong ICD-10-CM, CPT, and HCPCS knowledge, and demonstrated ability to perform coding queries.

Qualifications

• Certified Professional Coder (CPC) or CCS certification.
• Experience coding and auditing outpatient, observation, ED, and outpatient diagnostic encounters.
• Strong understanding of ICD-10-CM, CPT, HCPCS and applicable regulatory guidelines.

Responsibilities

• Review clinical documentation and assign diagnosis and procedure codes for outpatient surgery, observation, ED, and outpatient encounters.
• Communicate with physicians and staff to obtain clarification on diagnoses and procedures via coding queries.
• Use electronic encoder applications to assign codes per company policies and regulatory guidelines.
• Perform peer reviews and quality audits to ensure accuracy, consistency and compliance.
• Prepare and deliver coding audit reports, findings, and recommendations to leadership.
• Maintain a minimum coding accuracy rate of 98% while meeting productivity standards.

Skills

CPC certification

CCS certification

ICD-10-CM knowledge

CPT/HCPCS knowledge

Auditing experience

Coding queries

Tools

Electronic encoder applications

Coding systems

Job description

Cognizant is seeking an Emergency Department Coder to ensure the accuracy, quality, and compliance of medical coding across outpatient settings. You will collaborate with the Health Information Management team, physicians, and stakeholders to support regulatory compliance and revenue integrity.

This fully remote role requires CPC/CCS certification, strong ICD-10-CM, CPT, and HCPCS knowledge, and demonstrated ability to perform coding queries.