Senior Hospital Inpatient Coder

Your expertise in inpatient coding does more than support reimbursement. It drives clinical accuracy, quality reporting, regulatory compliance, and data integrity across a leading academic health system. This is an opportunity to apply advanced coding knowledge in a highly specialized environment while enjoying the flexibility of a fully remote role.

As a Senior Hospital Inpatient Coder, you will review and code some of the most complex inpatient encounters in academic medicine, including trauma, transplant, critical care, and advanced medical and surgical cases. This role is ideal for experienced inpatient facility coders who thrive in a high-acuity environment, value autonomy, and are committed to coding excellence.

In this highly independent position, you will serve as a trusted coding expert responsible for the accurate assignment of inpatient facility codes and classification systems that support quality outcomes, compliance, and organizational performance. Working remotely, you will collaborate with providers, CDI professionals, coding leadership, auditors, and revenue cycle stakeholders to ensure coding accuracy and integrity.

Key responsibilities include:

• Assign ICD-10-CM, ICD-10-PCS, MS-DRG, APR-DRG, POA indicators, discharge disposition codes, and other required coding elements for complex inpatient encounters.
• Review highly specialized inpatient records involving trauma, transplant, critical care, and other complex medical and surgical services.
• Apply advanced knowledge of medical terminology, anatomy and physiology, pathophysiology, pharmacology, and complex disease processes.
• Maintain departmental standards for coding quality, productivity, accuracy, and turnaround times.
• Communicate effectively with providers, CDI specialists, auditors, coding leadership, and revenue cycle teams.
• Participate in coding education, quality initiatives, workflow improvement efforts, and revenue cycle optimization projects.
• Utilize Epic EHR, Solventum 360 CAC, and Microsoft applications to support efficient coding workflows.
• Work independently in a teleworking environment while managing priorities and meeting established deadlines.

The ideal candidate brings recent experience coding highly complex inpatient cases within a major academic medical center or Level I trauma environment and can contribute with minimal onboarding or training.

UVA Health is a nationally recognized academic health system where clinical excellence, education, innovation, and research come together to shape the future of healthcare. As a member of the Health Information Management team, you will play a critical role in ensuring the integrity of the clinical data that supports patient care, quality outcomes, and financial performance.

Highlights of this opportunity include:

• Fully remote work environment with the flexibility to work from home full time.
• Flexible scheduling
  , allowing experienced coders to independently manage their workflow.
• Exposure to a high-acuity academic medical center caring for some of the region's most complex patients.
• Opportunities to develop and maintain expertise in specialized services such as trauma, transplant, critical care, and advanced medical and surgical specialties.
• Ongoing access to professional development, coding education, and continuous learning opportunities.
• The ability to contribute beyond coding through quality improvement initiatives, workflow enhancements, and revenue cycle optimization efforts.
• A collaborative culture that values accountability, expertise, innovation, and continuous improvement.

This is an outstanding opportunity for experienced inpatient coders who want to apply their skills in a sophisticated healthcare environment while maintaining the flexibility…