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Coder - Professional
Posted Sep 10, 2026 · We last checked this listing on Oct 6, 2026
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About your past
This role can be remote. How do you stay focused and productive working from home?
What they are checking: Whether they have the discipline and routines to meet production standards without supervision nearby.
Tell me about a time you educated a provider or staff member about documentation.
What they are checking: Whether they can teach busy clinicians respectfully and get a change to stick.
Which certification do you hold now, and how are you planning to have your CPC within a year if you don't yet?
What they are checking: Whether they can meet the posting's certification timeline.
What would you do
You'd be using an E/M auditing tool to confirm the provider's level. What do you do when your result is lower than what the provider picked?
What they are checking: Whether they can handle disagreement with a provider using documentation, not opinion.
You can't find the diagnosis needed to code an encounter. Who do you contact and how?
What they are checking: Whether they know to reach out to the physician office or department instead of guessing.
About the work
Walk me through how you decide an E/M level for an office visit under the current medical decision making guidelines.
What they are checking: Whether they can apply MDM elements like problems, data and risk, or time, correctly.
How would you write a query to a physician asking for clarification without leading them?
What they are checking: Whether they know compliant query practice, which protects the organization from upcoding risk.
Explain when you'd add modifier 25 to an E/M on the same day as a procedure.
What they are checking: Whether they understand a significant, separately identifiable service and how it's documented.
How do ICD-10-CM coding guidelines handle a 'rule out' diagnosis in the outpatient professional setting?
What they are checking: Whether they know outpatient rules differ from inpatient and code to the highest certainty documented.
How do you keep up with yearly CPT and ICD-10 code updates?
What they are checking: Whether they stay current, since outdated codes lead to denials and compliance risk.
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