Medical Coding Lead; Behavioral Health, E​/M

Position: Medical Coding Lead (Behavioral Health, E/M)
About Brellium

Brellium's mission is a big one - to improve the standard of care across the US healthcare system. We've built AI-powered technology that helps healthcare providers deliver safer, higher-quality care - starting with the first real-time medical review platform built to fix clinical and compliance risks before they impact patients.

Each year, 1 in 20 people in the U.S. experiences a medical diagnostic or compliance-related mistake. Most providers lack the time, staffing, and tools to mitigate these issues - so they go unnoticed, impacting care quality and increasing clinical and financial risk.

Brellium is building the AI-powered platform that helps providers deliver safer, more consistent care by mitigating risk early and aligning patient visits with clinical best practices. Our goal is to give every provider in the U.S. the tools to deliver clinically excellent, data-driven care - at scale.

Brellium was founded in 2021. Since then, we've grown to serve over 250,000 providers across all 50 states who use Brellium to take better care of their patients and ensure data-driven, compliant care. We're a Series A company with over $16MM in funding from First Round Capital, Left Lane Capital, and Menlo Ventures.

About the Role

We are looking for a Medical Coding Lead (Behavioral Health, E/M) to join Brellium's Quality organization and help define how automated and human-in-the-loop coding works at scale.

In this role, you will serve as the internal authority on behavioral health E/M coding, partnering closely with Brellium's Customer Success, Product, and Engineering teams. You will help ensure that coding recommendations are accurate, defensible, and aligned with payer expectations - balancing appropriate revenue capture with audit-safe compliance.

This is a highly impactful role for an experienced coder who enjoys shaping policy, improving systems, and applying clinical coding expertise in a modern, technology-driven environment.

What You'll Do
Own Coding Quality & Compliance

• Review and validate E/M coding for behavioral health encounters in a pre-bill workflow
• Ensure coding decisions align with documentation, payer guidance, and compliance best practices
• Define clear standards for when revenue capture is appropriate vs when risk is too high

Establish Coding Policy & Guardrails

• Develop and enforce guidelines for:
  • E/M level selection (MDM vs time)
  • Psychotherapy add-on code usage
  • Documentation requirements and addenda
• Act as the escalation point for complex or ambiguous coding scenarios
• Support internal QA and calibration to maintain consistency over time

Partner Cross-Functionally

• Collaborate with Product and Engineering to operationalize coding rules within Brellium's platform
• Provide feedback on automated coding logic and edge cases
• Support customer-facing teams in compliance-sensitive discussions when needed

Improve Systems at Scale

• Identify patterns in coding risk or opportunity across large datasets
• Help standardize best-in-class coding workflows across customer organizations
• Contribute to training, documentation, and internal playbooks as the program scales

What We're Looking For
Required

• AAPC certification (CPC) required
• CEMC (Certified Evaluation & Management Coder) strongly preferred
• 5+ years of hands-on coding experience in Behavioral Health / Psychiatry
• Direct experience with:
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  • 90833, 90836, 90838
• Strong understanding of MDM vs time-based E/M selection
• Experience in pre-bill coding review, coding QA, or compliance-focused workflows

Preferred

• Prior experience as a Coding Lead, Coding Manager, or senior coder
• Experience training or calibrating other coders
• Comfort working across billing, compliance, and clinical stakeholders
• Familiarity with Medicaid and commercial payer requirements

Who You Are

• Compliance-first and detail-oriented, with strong professional judgment
• Comfortable pushing back on revenue capture when documentation does not support it
• Clear communicator with clinicians, billing teams, and operational leaders
• Systems thinker who enjoys improving processes, not just executing tasks
• Interested in applying coding expertise in a modern health tech environment

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