[Hiring] Inpatient Coding Expert @Mercor

Role Description

The Clinical Documentation Integrity (CDI) Specialist will be responsible for the following:

• Review AI-agent attempts at realistic CDI/coding tasks.
• Judge whether each disposition is correct and adequately supported by the record.
• Confirm work is completed and recorded.
• Ensure codes are changed, queries sent, holds placed, DRG recomputed, and notes and CDI reviews filed.
• Identify fabricated or overstated work.
• Verify cited labs, documents, or prior encounters exist.
• Confirm provider responses and DRG or dollar figures are produced by the grouper.
• Judge completeness and apply the right action to the right chart.
• Require verify-before-finalize for code fix, query, clinical-validation query, or leave-alone decisions.
• Write clear, specific agree/disagree rationales on each attempt.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of professional experience in inpatient hospital CDI, inpatient DRG coding/auditing, or clinical-documentation denial management.
• Current or recent hands-on work under ICD-10-CM/PCS and MS-DRGs.
• Reflexive professional judgment; ability to spot unsupported diagnoses, leading queries, missed CC/MCCs, or rubber-stamped accounts.
• CCDS, CDIP, CCS, RHIA/RHIT, or RN with CDI experience (or equivalent).
• Hospital, coding, or HIM background.
• Comfort working inside CAC/CDI software and reading the full clinical record, including H&Ps, consults, progress notes, discharge summaries, labs, and flowsheets.

Company Description

Mercor connects elite creative and technical talent with leading AI research labs. Headquartered in San Francisco, our investors include:

• Benchmark
• General Catalyst
• Peter Thiel
• Adam D'Angelo
• Larry Summers
• Jack Dorsey