Medical Coder (CCS / CIC)

You will review inpatient medical records and create accurate annotations that help improve AI systems. The work uses your medical coding expertise to interpret clinical documentation, assign codes, and explain complex cases.

You will also provide feedback on unclear documentation and coding guidance so that AI systems and coding workflows handle inpatient cases more accurately.

• Review admission notes, progress notes, operative reports, consults, laboratory and imaging results, and discharge summaries.
• Identify principal and secondary diagnoses and sequence codes under applicable guidelines.
• Assign ICD-10-CM and ICD-10-PCS codes and Present on Admission indicators.
• Validate MS-DRG assignments, including complications and comorbidities and major complications and comorbidities.
• Apply inpatient coding conventions, UHDDS definitions, official ICD-10-CM and ICD-10-PCS guidance, and AHA Coding Clinic guidance.
• Identify hospital-acquired conditions and patient safety indicators.
• Communicate clearly about documentation ambiguities and provide precise feedback on complex cases.

What it pays and takes

This is a part-time contractor role open to candidates in the United States. Prior AI training experience is not required; inpatient medical coding expertise is the primary qualification.

• Pay: $50 to $70 per hour.
• Location: Open to candidates in the United States.
• Language: Professional fluency in English.
• Credential: An active AHIMA Certified Coding Specialist (CCS) or AAPC Certified Inpatient Coder (CIC) credential is required.
• Experience: Hands-on inpatient coding experience and thorough knowledge of ICD-10-CM, ICD-10-PCS, and MS-DRG methodology.
• Helpful experience: Reviewing acute care, teaching hospital, surgical, trauma, oncology, cardiology, or transplant cases.
• Skills: Strong written and verbal communication, careful attention to detail, and access to current code sets, official coding guidelines, and MS-DRG grouper tools.

How it works

You apply here in about two minutes and finish on the hiring platform. The next step is a short AI interview (technical roles include a coding challenge). Passing it is how you qualify for paid tasks, so take it soon after you are invited.

The hiring platform's application for this job asks for your resume, your LinkedIn profile, your phone number, your location and answers to 4 screening questions.

About AI training work

AI training is the human work behind artificial intelligence, including reviewing documents and preparing examples that help models learn. Medical coding specialists are paid for applying professional knowledge and careful judgment to complex records.