Mortality Medical Coder, ICD-10 Cause-of-Death Coding Specialist

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🔥 13 hours ago

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🏥 Medical Billing and Coding

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Cetechs

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2009

🏥 Healthcare

🤝 B2B

Healthcare • Engineering • B2B

Cetechs is a strategic workforce solutions firm headquartered in Mesa, Arizona. Cetechs offers business insight, best-in-class resources, and rapid execution for your Healthcare, Engineering, and Administration projects under one roof. Our company is a quickly growing Service Disabled Veteran-owned Small Business as well as a well-established and reputable leader in the business community.

📋 Description

• Review and assign ICD-10 cause-of-death codes to mortality and fetal death records • Perform manual coding of records that cannot be processed through automated coding systems • Apply applicable ICD-10 mortality coding conventions, rules, and procedures • Review and resolve complex or ambiguous cause-of-death statements • Support quality assurance, quality control, and coding accuracy initiatives • Identify and correct coding discrepancies • Participate in recoding and validation activities as assigned • Maintain coding accuracy consistent with CDC performance standards • Meet established productivity, turnaround, and quality requirements • Participate in required training and maintain proficiency with updated coding guidance • Protect confidential government information and comply with applicable security requirements • Collaborate with project leadership and other coding specialists to meet contract deliverables

🎯 Requirements

• Demonstrated experience with ICD-10 mortality cause-of-death coding, preferably supporting CDC, NCHS, state vital records programs, or similar public health mortality coding operations • Knowledge of mortality coding rules, conventions, and procedures • Ability to interpret medical terminology and causes of death documented on death certificates • Strong attention to detail and ability to consistently produce accurate coding results • Ability to work independently in a remote environment • Strong organizational, communication, and time-management skills • Ability to complete required federal background screening and obtain necessary government system access • Specialized mortality coding experience required • Traditional ICD-10-CM medical billing and reimbursement coding experience alone may not meet the qualifications • Current or previous experience supporting the CDC/NCHS mortality coding contract preferred • Experience as a mortality nosologist preferred • Experience coding both mortality and fetal death records preferred • Familiarity with automated mortality coding systems and manual coding exception processes preferred • Experience performing mortality coding quality control, recoding, or system validation preferred • Experience working on federal public health contracts preferred • Prior experience meeting government coding accuracy and production requirements preferred

🏖️ Benefits

• Job skills training and other support services • Authorized government-furnished equipment • Remote/telework work environment • Full-time and part-time opportunities may be available

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