Pear VC is hiring a
Medical Coding Expert, Remote - United States

Summary

The job is for a fully remote Emergency Medicine Medical Coder - Contractor position at Abstractive Health, a healthcare AI company. The role involves assisting in the design of clinical document improvement nudges for emergency medicine physicians. The contractor needs CPC or CCS-P certification, a Bachelor's degree, and at least 5 years of experience as a Senior Billing and Coding Specialist.

Requirements

• CPC (AAPC) or CCS-P (AHIMA)
• Bachelor of Arts or Science
• 5+ years experience as a Senior Billing and Coding Specialist

Responsibilities

• Assist in determining the AI logic for our CDI nudges specific for Emergency Medicine summary notes related to Evaluation & Management (E&M) CPT service 99211 - 99215
• Work through an excel spreadsheet with one column representing examples of how a physician commonly documents, another column representing how a physician could ideally document to optimize for the robustness of the care they performed, and then a third column recommending advice/notes to help the engineering team with formulating the difference between that logic for the AI system
• Provide recommendations and advice on improving the user experience for physicians for the CDI nudges workflow
• Attend a 30 minute weekly meeting with Emergency Medicine physicians, AI engineers, and business operational stakeholders to work through any project based questions
• Advise the operational team on expanding the CDI nudges logic, when appropriate, to outpatient primary care E&M CPT codes

Preferred Qualifications

• Educational specialization in Health Information Management, RHIT & RHIA Degree Programs, or a related field
• Experience as an Operations Director/Manager of Medical Coding at an Academic Medical Center
• Compliance and regulatory experience in medical coding
• Digital health tech startup experience

Benefits

$75.00 / hour. Estimated at 3 to 5 hours a week for 5 months