Profee Coding Consultant - Remote - PRN

The Profee Coding Consultant role is an opportunity to make a significant impact in the field of medical coding. You will provide essential consulting services and educational support, guiding healthcare professionals on improved coding practices. Collaborating closely with key stakeholders such as clients and healthcare leaders, you'll meet and exceed customer expectations through identifying and proposing solutions, and being a responsible and reliable teammate. This role offers a unique opportunity to play a pivotal role in elevating coding quality, ensuring compliance, and optimizing service outcomes in both hospitals and alternative care settings.

What You Will Do:

• Review medical records and assign precise codes to ensure accurate coding aligned with client needs (CPT, ICD-10-CM, ICD-10 procedures, ICD-10-CM and ICD-10 PCS, HCPCS).
• Conduct data quality reviews of records to assess compliance with official coding and documentation guidelines. 
• Communicate professionally with co-workers, management, and hospital staff regarding clinical and reimbursement issues. 
• Demonstrate strong written and verbal communication skills 
• Identify documentation improvement opportunities and coding issues 
• Use VPN access to ensure productive and flexible task completion
• Uphold Datavant and HIM Division policies, promoting a culture of compliance and operational efficiency.
• Track continuing education credits, maintaining a high standard of professional expertise.
• Attend mandatory sponsored in-service and educational meetings, ensuring alignment with industry best practices for continual improvement.
• Adhere to the American Health Information Management Association's code of ethics, upholding professional standards and integrity.

What You Need to Succeed:  

• 1+ year of Profee coding experience.
• AHIMA certified credentials (RHIA, RHIT, CCS) or AAPC certified credentials (CPC, CPC-H, COC, CIC or CRC).
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, adeptness in remote work, and exceptional time management skills.
• Experience in computerized encoding and abstracting software. 
• Required to take and pass annual Introductory HIPAA examination and other assigned testing to be given annually

We are committed to building a diverse team of Datavanters who are all responsible for stewarding a high-performance culture in which all Datavanters belong and thrive. We are proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, disability, veteran status, or other legally protected status.

Our compensation philosophy is to be externally competitive, internally fair, and not win or lose on compensation. Salary ranges for this position are developed with the support of benchmarks (competitive San Francisco rates for US-based roles) and industry best practices. 

We’re building a high-growth, high-autonomy culture. We rely less on job titles and more on cultivating an environment where anyone can contribute, the best ideas win, and personal growth is driven by expanding impact. This means we default to simple job titles (e.g., Software Engineer) rather than complex ones (e.g., Senior Software Engineer). The range posted is for a given job title, which can include multiple levels. Individual rates for the same job title may differ based on  level, responsibilities, skills, and experience for a specific job.