Outpatient SDS/OBS Coder

🕒 September 1

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🏥 Medical Billing and Coding

👻 Ghost score 34%

What it means: how likely this posting is sitting open without active hiring.How to read it: 60% or higher means we think this is a ghost. Lower scores are less of a worry.How we score it: age, reposts, open roles vs team size, how fast jobs close, and whether pay is listed.Fine print: an estimate from public data, not a judgment of the company. Real jobs can score high, so treat it as a hint, not a fact.

Apply Now

Find Similar Remote Jobs

Set Up Email Alert For New Jobs

📊 Check your resume score for this job

Improve your chances of getting an interview by checking your resume score before you apply.

Upload Resume

e4health

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

501 - 1000 employees

💼 Consulting

⚖️ Legal

📦 Logistics

Consulting • Legal • Logistics

e4health is a healthcare-focused services and technology firm that helps hospitals and health systems improve clinical data quality, coding accuracy, revenue integrity, and IT systems. They provide Health IT consulting, health information management (HIM), clinical documentation improvement (CDI), coding and auditing (including risk adjustment/HCC), legacy data migration and validation, interim staffing, and software and AI automation solutions. e4health serves more than 400 health systems with a mix of professional services, advisory engagements, and technology to optimize workflows, protect IT investments, and drive measurable outcomes.

📋 Description

• Accurately abstract data into appropriate client electronic medical record systems • Follow Official ICD-10-CM, CPT, and HCPCS Guidelines for Coding, AMA CPT Guidelines, and CMS directives • Perform data entry of required abstracted patient information into the client’s information system • Assign appropriate ICD-10-CM, CPT, HCPCS codes and modifiers to facility-based Ancillary, Emergency Department, Observation, and/or Outpatient Surgery accounts • Abstract and enter coded data and/or charges for hospital statistical and reporting requirements • Query physicians to clarify clinical information when appropriate • Communicate documentation improvement opportunities and coding issues to appropriate personnel • Communicate with Clinical Documentation Improvement and/or Revenue Cycle teams for follow-up and account reconciliation • Maintain required productivity and quality requirements, including a 95% or better coding accuracy rate • Maintain coding credential requirements • Commit to a minimum of 15–20 hours per week when assigned to a project • Provide schedule availability one month ahead of time • Work on assignments ranging from a few days to months, depending on customer need

🎯 Requirements

• CCS credential required • Same day surgery coding, including Observation experience, required • Minimum 5 years' coding experience required • Trauma Level 1 and Academic Teaching facility experience required • Experience assigning ICD-10-CM, CPT, HCPCS codes and modifiers • Knowledge of Official ICD-10-CM, CPT, and HCPCS Guidelines for Coding • Knowledge of AMA CPT Guidelines and CMS directives • Ability to maintain a coding accuracy rate of 95% or better • Ability to meet productivity standards • Ability to query physicians regarding conflicting, imprecise, incomplete, ambiguous, or inconsistent clinical information • Ability to communicate documentation improvement opportunities and coding issues • Ability to work with Clinical Documentation Improvement and/or Revenue Cycle teams • Ability to provide schedule availability one month ahead of time • Applicants for U.S. based positions must be legally authorized to work in the United States • Visa sponsorship is not available

🏖️ Benefits

• Excellent salary • 401(k) with company match • Medical insurance • Dental insurance • Vision insurance • Life insurance • Short-term disability insurance • Long-term disability insurance • PTO policy • Remote work from a home office environment