State Licensed Inpatient Coder

Job Summary

To support healthcare organizations, the part-time State Licensed Inpatient Coder will review clinical documentation to assign and sequence diagnostic and procedural codes for Facility Inpatient records, ensuring accurate billing and compliance while working remotely.

Key responsibilities

• Select and sequence ICD-10 CM and PCS codes for Acute Facility Inpatient records
• Review clinical records to ensure accurate MS-DRG assignments reflect documented diagnoses and procedures
• Abstract clinical data to ensure documentation supports the selected diagnoses, procedures, and discharge dispositions

Required qualifications

• Active AHIMA credential (RHIA, RHIT, CCS) or AAPC credential (COC, CCS-P, CPC)
• Two years of recent hands-on coding experience with Acute Inpatient records
• Successful completion of a pre-employment skills assessment