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

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

Preferred Qualifications

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

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. task, and the effective hourly rate will depend on the number of tasks completed and successfully signed off times the selected rate.