Inpatient Coder
Quick facts
- Pay
- $50 - $70/hour
- Type
- Part-time
- Location
- United States, Remote
- Hours
- 10+ hours / week
- Platform
- Micro1 — 289 open jobs
- Typical pay at Micro1
- $20–300/hour · median $65 (284 jobs on our site)
- Payout
- Deel (twice a month)
- Apply
- Free to apply — never pay to get AI training work
Pay: $50 - $70/hour
Required Skills
ICD-10-CM
DRG
EMR
Clinical Documentation
About micro1
micro1 is a data lab that helps AI labs & Enterprises train foundational models and agents. We provide frontier evaluations and reinforcement learning environments to improve LLM capabilities, as well as contextual evaluations to monitor and improve AI agents in enterprise settings.
Our AI recruiting agent sources and vets domain experts for our data platform that enables rapid production of high-quality training data. Our research spans high-value, specialized domains (legal, medical, finance, coding, etc.), where expert-level data is the hardest to produce and most valuable for advanced model performance. Our pipeline performance system ensures both quality and velocity.
Role Title: Inpatient Coder
Role Type: Contractor
Location: United States, Remote
micro1 is engaging Inpatient 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 clinical documentation for accuracy, completeness, and coding integrity.
Evaluate AI-generated clinical notes and summaries against real-world documentation and coding standards.
Validate alignment between clinical documentation and assigned codes.
Write prompts that test how an AI handles real healthcare administrative work, including billing and coding, insurance and prior authorization, scheduling, and regulatory compliance.
Correct the code/data when the model falls short, grounded in day-to-day operational experience.
Required Qualifications
Active coding certification such as CIC, CCS or CPC.
Inpatient ICD-10-CM coding experience, including DRG, MCC/CC, and POA concepts.
Demonstrated expertise in reviewing and abstracting information from EMRs.
Strong analytical skills and the ability to interpret complex clinical documentation.
Availability of at least 10 hours per week.
US-based.
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, and the effective hourly rate will depend on the number of tasks completed and successfully signed off times the selected rate.
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