Accurate clinical documentation and coding are essential to ensuring quality patient care, operational excellence, and regulatory compliance. This role offers an experienced outpatient medical coder the opportunity to make a meaningful impact across a broad range of ambulatory specialties while supporting one of the nation's leading academic health systems.
As a Coding Quality Specialist 2, you will serve as a trusted coding expert for ambulatory medicine and specialty practices, helping ensure complete, compliant, and accurate code assignment. This position offers the flexibility of remote work , exposure to diverse specialties, and the opportunity to collaborate with providers and clinical teams in a highly respected healthcare environment.
The Role
As part of a specialized coding team, you will independently review complex outpatient documentation and apply advanced coding knowledge to support coding accuracy, quality initiatives, and regulatory compliance across multiple ambulatory specialties including Allergy, Endocrinology, Hematology/Oncology, Infectious Disease, Internal Medicine, Nephrology, Neurology, Pulmonology, Pediatrics, and Sleep Medicine .
This position is ideal for a credentialed outpatient coder with approximately three or more years of professional outpatient coding experience and a CPC certification who enjoys navigating complex documentation, solving coding challenges, and serving as a subject matter expert across multiple medical specialties.
In this role, you will:
- Perform detailed review and assignment of CPT, ICD-10-CM, modifiers, and E/M services for physician billing.
- Analyze clinical documentation to accurately identify services performed and appropriately link diagnoses to procedures.
- Apply expertise in medical necessity, diagnosis specificity, NCCI edits, LCD/NCD guidance, and payer-specific requirements .
- Identify documentation inconsistencies, omissions, or deficiencies and determine when provider clarification is needed.
- Conduct charge review activities and support coding quality and compliance initiatives.
- Utilize Epic, work queues, and coding review workflows to manage coding assignments and productivity expectations.
- Research and apply evolving coding, reimbursement, and regulatory guidance.
- Collaborate with providers, clinical staff, and revenue cycle teams to promote coding excellence and compliant reimbursement practices.
Why UVA Health UVA Health is an integrated academic health system recognized for advancing patient care, research, education, and innovation. As part of this environment, coding professionals play a critical role in supporting the integrity of clinical data and ensuring accurate representation of the care provided throughout the organization.
Why experienced coders choose UVA Health:
- Remote work opportunity , providing flexibility while remaining connected to a highly collaborative team environment.
- Work across a diverse portfolio of specialty clinics that offer ongoing learning and professional growth.
- Be part of a nationally recognized academic health system committed to innovation and excellence.
- Contribute to a healthcare organization that supports complex specialty care, advanced treatment programs, and multidisciplinary collaboration.
- Partner with physicians and clinical leaders who value coding accuracy, documentation quality, and revenue integrity.
- Join a culture that encourages professional development, continuous learning, and knowledge sharing.
This role offers a unique opportunity to leverage advanced outpatient coding expertise while supporting specialty practices that have a direct impact on patient outcomes across the continuum of care.
Why People Love Living in Charlottesville Nestled against the backdrop of the Blue Ridge Mountains, Charlottesville offers an exceptional quality of life with a blend of outdoor recreation, culture, history, and college-town energy. Residents enjoy award-winning wineries, a thriving food scene, vibrant arts and music, scenic hiking trails, and easy access to both Washington, D.C. and Richmond. Whether you're seeking family-friendly neighborhoods, outdoor adventure, or a strong sense of community, Charlottesville provides an ideal balance between professional fulfillment and personal well-being. While this position can be performed remotely, UVA Health's home community remains one of the most desirable places to live and work in the Mid-Atlantic region.
MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS Education: High School Diploma or GED
Experience: 2+ years of coding/clinical experience. Specialty focus strongly preferred for the following disciplines: Adult and Pediatric Outpatient for Pulmonology including Bronchoscopies and Pulmonary Function Tests, Hematology and Oncology, Endocrinology, Nephrology, including Dialysis Billing, Infectious Disease, Allergy, Genetics, Pediatric Development and Neurology including nerve blocking injections and EEGs.
Licensure: Certified Professional Coder (CPC) required.
PHYSICAL DEMANDS
This is primarily a sedentary job involving extensive use of desktop computers. The job does occasionally requires traveling some distance to attend meetings, and programs.
The pay range for this role is $23.00 - $35.32 hourly. Individual compensation will be determined by the selected candidate's qualifications, previous work experience, and/or education.
Job Profile J1691 - Medical Coding Operations and Service 2
Career Stream and Level Operations and Service-O2
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