Senior Medical Coder (India)
About the role
Senior Medical Coder role focused on Spine & Nerve coding with hands-on E/M, EMG/NCS, and spine injection procedures in a healthcare RCM environment. Coders work from provider documentation to ensure accuracy, compliance, and clean claims across pain management, neurology, orthopaedics, and PM&R workflows.
Responsibilities
- E/M Coding (Spine & Nerve visits): Assign accurate E/M codes for new/established patient encounters based on documentation and payer guidelines (including time- or MDM-based selection where applicable).
- Validate documentation supports medical necessity, history/exam elements when required, and appropriate diagnosis linkages.
- EMG & NCS (Electrodiagnostic studies): Code EMG/NCS procedures accurately based on documentation (e.g., number of nerves/muscles studied, laterality, interpretation/report requirements).
- Ensure correct bundling/unbundling and appropriate modifier use as per payer rules and edits.
- Spine injections / interventional procedures: Code spine injection procedures based on approach and documentation (e.g., epidural steroid injections, facet/medial branch blocks, RFA support coding if applicable).
- Capture and link supporting details: level(s), laterality, imaging guidance, supplies/units (as applicable), and diagnosis justification.
Qualifications
- Proven experience coding Spine & Nerve / Pain Management / Neurology / Orthopaedics / PM&R cases in an RCM environment.
- Strong practical experience in: Working knowledge of ICD-10-CM, CPT, modifiers, and medical necessity documentation.
- Strong attention to detail, ability to interpret clinical documentation, and willingness to ask clarifying questions.
Skills
About Athelas
Extensible, Integrated Technology that Simplifies Health Systems
At Athelas, powered by Commure, our mission is to simplify healthcare. We have bold ambitions to reimagine the healthcare experience, setting a new standard for how care is delivered and experienced across the industry. Our growing suite of AI solutions spans ambient AI clinical documentation, provider copilots, autonomous coding, revenue cycle management and more — all designed for providers & administrators to focus on what matters most: providing care. Healthcare is a $4.5 trillion industry with more than $500 billion spent annually on administrative costs, and Athelas is at the heart of transforming it. We power over 500,000 clinicians across hundreds of care sites nationwide – more than $10 billion flows through our systems and we support over 100 million patient interactions. With new product launches on the horizon, expansion into additional care segments, and a bold vision to tackle healthcare's most pressing challenges, our ambition is to move from upstart innovator to the industry standard over the next few years. Healthcare's moment for AI-powered transformation is here, and we're building the technology to power it. Come join us in shaping the future of healthcare.
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