Medical Auditor

$30–40/hrrate as listed

micro1 is contracting experienced outpatient professional fee coding auditors to review, correct, and annotate AI-generated coding and audit reasoning. The work is remote and asynchronous, with observed rates of $55–68/hr for experts with academic medical center audit backgrounds.

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What the work involves

You will spend most of your time reading model output against real-world outpatient professional fee coding scenarios and deciding whether the reasoning holds up. That means checking E/M level selection against documentation, verifying modifier use, catching teaching physician and split/shared visit errors, and flagging places where a model reached the right code through the wrong logic. Alongside corrections, you write short narratives explaining why a finding is a finding — the written rationale is often more valuable to the customer than the corrected code itself.

Other tasks rotate in: authoring audit scenarios with defensible answer keys, comparing two model responses and justifying which is stronger, and joining occasional calibration threads where reviewers disagree on ambiguous documentation. No prior AI or machine learning experience is expected. What transfers is the habit of citing a guideline or documentation element rather than asserting a conclusion.

What the screening looks for

micro1 runs an AI-led interview before human review. Expect it to probe depth rather than résumé keywords:

Specific, checkable detail about the settings you audited, the volume, and the specialties involved
Whether you can distinguish coding rules from payer policy from institutional practice
Reasoning under follow-up — the interviewer will push on edge cases and ask you to defend or revise your answer
Writing that a compliance officer could read without translation
Honest availability, including whether your current employer permits outside contract work

Logistics

Fully remote, contractor engagement, invoiced hourly. Work is queue-based and asynchronous; most contributors commit 10–20 hours per week and set their own schedule, with occasional synchronous calibration sessions. Rates in the $55–68/hr range have been observed on this listing and vary with credentials, specialty coverage, and project stage — they are not guaranteed. Engagements are project-scoped and may pause or expand with customer demand.

What they look for

Outpatient Professional Fee Coding
Coding Auditing
Academic Medical Center Experience
Audit Program Management

Before you apply

Would you pass this screen?

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Do you have a minimum of 10 years of professional experience in medical coding with a specific focus on outpatient professional fee coding and auditing?
Outpatient professional fee coding experience · required
Have you conducted or managed audits directly within an academic medical center environment?
Academic medical center audit experience · required
Are you fluent in U.S. medical coding guidelines, compliance regulations, and audit methodologies (such as CPT, ICD-10, and payer-specific rules)?
U.S. medical coding compliance knowledge · required
Can you produce clear, detailed written narratives documenting audit findings and recommendations suitable for clinical and administrative audiences?
Written communication ability · preferred

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Included with this listing

Interview prep — 11 questions

Matched to what this platform's screening actually measures. Answer each out loud in 60–90 seconds: claim → concrete example → implication.

What it tests: Whether the candidate has hands-on, current experience auditing outpatient codes (not inpatient, not a supervisor reading summaries), and whether they can articulate specific coding vulnerabilities and compliance risks rather than generic audit steps.
A strong answer: A concrete example naming specific CPT/ICD codes, a category of error found (e.g., unbundling, modifier misuse, documentation gaps), the compliance or billing impact, and how the finding was communicated to the coding team—showing depth in outpatient coding mechanics, not just process.
Where people lose it: Describing audit work at a high level ('we checked the codes for accuracy') or pivoting to inpatient, facility, or revenue cycle roles that sound similar but don't require mastery of outpatient professional fee coding rules.