Medical Coder

Overview

SNA International seeks a bright, collaborative Medical Coder with a strong work ethic and experience with medical mortality coding to join the team at Armed Forces Medical Examiner’s System in Dover, DE. This is a 100% on-site position.

• Assist medical examiners with mortality classification of autopsy reports
• Provide auditing, adjudication, and medical mortality coding oversight
• Retrieve death data on decedents who fall under AFMES jurisdiction
• Provide coding for individual injuries and code for causes of death
• Perform auditing, oversight, and adjudication support, and identify missing mortality data from 1998 to present and enter them into appropriate databases
• Develop standard operating procedures for coding and quality control within AFMES
• Provide coding expertise to take available death data using ICD-10, code the primary, secondary, tertiary, and other related codes, causes of death using standard nosologic methods
• Generate and maintain a data dictionary that defines the variables, codes, and terms used that are not in ICD-10

• Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent experience) plus 5 years of medical mortality AIS coding
• Desired knowledge and experience in filing techniques; administrative typing; preparing and editing technical or general documentation using various software packages such as Microsoft Word, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Excel and Windows; transcription of documents, data entry, and preparing and editing management support documentation
• Candidates must be US citizens and able to pass a NAC-I Security Background Investigation

Please submit a cover letter along with your CV. CVs without a cover letter will not be considered.

SNA International is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.