Inpatient Medical Coder

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

1. Review inpatient medical records to ensure accurate ICD-10-CM and ICD-10-PCS coding in line with current guidelines.
2. Determine the principal and secondary diagnoses for the full admission.
3. Assess how MCCs, CCs, and procedures affect DRG assignment.
4. Review clinical documentation for accuracy and completeness, and flag opportunities for provider queries.
5. Evaluate AI-generated clinical notes and summaries against real-world medical documentation.
6. Review AI-generated code suggestions for compliance with inpatient coding standards.
7. Identify and resolve diagnosis and procedure coding discrepancies to protect data integrity.
8. Enter and validate AI-generated patient information in inpatient medical record and encoder systems.

Preferred Qualifications

1. Active coding certification such as CIC, CCS or CPC.
2. Inpatient ICD-10-CM and ICD-10-PCS coding experience, including DRG, MCC/CC, and POA concepts.
3. Access to current official ICD-10 code sets and guidelines, and familiarity with AHA Coding Clinic.
4. Currently working in inpatient coding, clinical documentation improvement, or a closely related role.
5. Availability of at least 10 hours per week.

Compensation Structure:

1. Compensation is task based, meaning experts are paid per completed task that meets the project specifications.
2. 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.