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Charts coded accurately and ready to bill.

Also called: Medical Coding Specialist, Clinical Coder

From AUD $4.50 an hourAUD $4.50-22.50/hr

  • Healthcare
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  • Works your hours
  • Philippines hub, 2 to 3 hours behind Sydney
  • Month to month
What your Medical Coder gets doneSample day
  • Assigns ICD-10-CM diagnosis codes, CPT/HCPCS procedure codesCoding and abstraction
  • Works the coding edit, charge review and unbilled queuesCharge review and claim support
  • Writes compliant, non-leading provider queriesDocumentation and compliance
  • Takes part in internal and client coding auditsQuality and reportingDoing
In your tools
  • Citrix / VMware Horizon VDI
  • Microsoft Excel / Google Sheets
  • Slack / Microsoft Teams

Pick the level. See the price.

AUD $9an hourFull time, 38 hours a week, all-in

Level 2 of 4, also called mid-level.Recommended
A local mid-level adminAUD $31.11/hr
A tested Intermediate Medical CoderAUD $9/hr
60-75% lessBasis: a Seat's hourly price against the hourly wage of a comparable local hire at the same level. Super and on-costs would add to the local cost.Local pay at the same level, before super and leave.

Owns a specialty queue end-to-end and works under light sampled QA of 5-10%.

  • Coding edit and charge review queues cleared within the agreed turnaround
  • Corrected coding for coding-related denials, with root-cause notes
  • Provider query log with outcomes

2-4 years of production coding. Holds a full CPC, COC, CRC or CCS.

How the Intermediate level works

Per hour, all-in: recruiting, testing and management. Prices exclude GST.

What you hand to your Medical Coder

Tasks

  • Coding and abstraction

    • Assigns ICD-10-CM diagnosis codes, CPT/HCPCS procedure codes
    • Levels office and hospital E/M visits under current AMA rules
    • Applies NCCI procedure-to-procedure edits, MUEs, LCD/NCD coverage rules
    • Reviews charts for reportable HCCs under the current CMS-HCC model
    • Selects the principal and secondary diagnoses, ICD-10-PCS procedures
    • Codes admitted episodes in ICD-10-AM/ACHI

  • Charge review and claim support

    • Works the coding edit, charge review and unbilled queues
    • Reconciles scheduled and completed encounters against coded charges
    • Reviews coding-related denials and supply corrected coding to the AR team

  • Documentation and compliance

    • Writes compliant, non-leading provider queries
    • Keeps a client-specific coding rules log
    • Applies quarterly and annual code set and guideline updates
    • Handles PHI only inside approved systems

  • Quality and reporting

    • Takes part in internal and client coding audits
    • Posts daily productivity, backlog, held charts

Tested before you meet them

  1. Clinical English and terminology testAll levels30 min
  2. Open-book code set and guidelines testAll levels60 min
  3. Specialisation chart coding work sampleAll levels1.5 hrs
  4. Timed outpatient coding sprintAll levels45 min
  5. Provider query and denial explanation role-playIntermediate and up30 min
  6. Coding audit exerciseExpert and Specialist60 min

One score on every profileSample shown

87%

Three checks before your shortlist

  • Skills tested: A skills test for the role, marked by a senior
  • English and comms: written English tested, spoken English checked on a call
  • ID, work history and references: photo ID, past roles and two referees

From booked call to day one

  1. Step 1: Book a demo

    Tell us the role, your hours and your tools.

  2. Step 2: Meet your shortlist

    Their level and hourly price, tested before you meet.

  3. Step 3: Pick your person

    Month to month. We handle the contract, the equipment and the onboarding, and make sure it all runs.

  4. Step 4: They start work

    In your tools, within 12 to 48 hours of a successful interview.

Questions answered

An Intern Medical Coder is AUD $4.50 an hour, Intermediate AUD $9, Expert AUD $14 and Specialist AUD $22.50, full time (38 hours a week). That is all-in: recruiting, testing and management, month to month. Prices exclude GST.

Coding and abstraction, charge review and claim support, documentation and compliance and quality and reporting, run to your priorities. You choose what they own first.

Six practical tests, marked by a senior, including clinical English and terminology test, open-book code set and guidelines test and specialisation chart coding work sample. You see the score before you meet.

Tell us and we replace them free, with a new shortlist of tested people to meet. Seats are month to month with 30 days' notice.

More questions

Within 12 to 48 hours of a successful interview. First you meet your shortlist, interview the people you like and pick your person.

Yes. Your Medical Coder works your business hours in your time zone and joins your Teams or Slack like anyone else. The hub matched to Australia & NZ clients is in the Philippines, 2 to 3 hours behind Sydney.

Yes, where it helps. Your Medical Coder works in the AI tools you already use. They use AI for first drafts and routine work, check every output, and follow your AI policy. You can ask for no AI on any task.

An Intermediate Medical Coder owns a specialty queue end-to-end and works under light sampled QA of 5-10%. An Expert Medical Coder owns coding outcomes for a service line or facility. We usually recommend Intermediate.

It stays under your rules: your admin settings and AI policy apply. Our talent rules ban client data in personal or free AI accounts, and passwords, card numbers, health details and ID numbers never go into any AI tool.

You direct the work day to day. We handle recruiting, equipment and quality checks.

Yes. Every Medical Coder is tested live in the tools on your job description, such as Epic and Oracle Health, before you meet them.

In week one: joined the client's Slack or Teams channels; 60-minute walkthrough with the client's billing; and week 1 plan: days 1-2 routine charts under full review, days 3-5 own the edit queue. You agree the first priorities with them on day one.

Yes. It's also called Medical Coding Specialist and Clinical Coder. Same tasks, tests and prices, whatever the name.

Their written English, with a scored test, and their spoken English, on a call with us. We also check their ID, work history and references.

Yes. You meet your shortlist on a short call and pick the person you want. Nobody joins without your yes.

In our talent hubs in the Philippines, Vietnam, Kenya, Nigeria, Brazil and Colombia, and we hire from 60+ countries. Wherever they are, they work your hours.

Pay only for the hours they work. All your Seats are on one bill, and Studio plans are billed monthly.

It can, at most once a year. Your person's hourly rate may rise by up to 5% a year, from the first anniversary of the Seat's start, with 60 days' notice and the right to end the Seat before it applies.

Only when you and your person both agree to it in advance. Otherwise they work the hours you set, and you pay for the hours they log.

You aren't charged for hours your person doesn't work, apart from paid leave. After their third month, your person earns 8 hours of paid leave a month. Paid leave hours are charged at their usual rate.

Your person logs their hours each day in the Get Hands client app, where you can see them. Your next invoice is adjusted to those hours.

Yes, with no minimum hours. From 20 to 37 hours a week, the hourly rate is 10% higher than full-time. Under 20 hours, it's 20% higher.

Yes. Tell us the roles on a call and we shortlist tested people for each.

Yes. You give them access in your own systems, and you can change or remove it at any time.

They get their own login in each of your systems, never a shared one. Any password that has to be shared goes through your own password manager, never email, chat, code or prompts.

A tested shortlist within 72 hours of your call, or your first week is free. That's part of The Right Hands Guarantee.

Yes. Call us on +61 3 4421 6491, or choose Talk now on the booking form for a Microsoft Teams link straight away, any time.

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