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Inpatient Coding/Clinical Data Specialist

Role overview

Qualifications

  • CCS, CIC and/or CDIP required (CCDS preferred)
  • 3–5+ years of inpatient coding experience
  • Strong audit, data analysis, and client-facing experience
  • Strong understanding of coding regulations, documentation guidelines, and industry trends

Responsibilities

  • Conduct inpatient coding and documentation audits to ensure accuracy and compliance
  • Analyze clinical and coding data to identify trends and improvement opportunities
  • Perform medical record reviews and deliver clear, actionable insights
  • Partner with clients to provide feedback, education, and best practice guidance

Key facts

  • Remote from: United States
  • Full time
  • Senior (5-10 years)
  • English

Other skills

  • Collaboration
  • Communication

About the company

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Waystar

Digital Health & Health Tech

Waystar provides market-leading technology that simplifies and unifies healthcare payments. Our cloud-based platform streamlines workflows and improves financials for healthcare providers of all kinds, and brings more transparency to the patient financial experience. The Waystar platform is used by more than 450k providers, 750 health systems and hospitals, and 5k health plans—and integrates with all major HIS and practice management systems.

Company details

Company typeLarge
IndustryDigital Health & Health Tech
Company size1001 - 5000

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Job description

ABOUT THIS POSITION

Join our team at Waystar! We’re looking for an Inpatient Coding & Clinical Data Specialist to help drive coding accuracy, data integrity, and product innovation.
In this role, you’ll partner across Product, Clinical, Data Science, and Customer Success teams—and work directly with clients—to improve coding quality, enhance workflows, and shape healthcare technology solutions.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

What You’ll Do

  • Conduct inpatient coding & documentation audits to ensure accuracy and compliance
  • Analyze clinical and coding data to identify trends and improvement opportunities
  • Perform medical record reviews and deliver clear, actionable insights
  • Partner with clients to provide feedback, education, and best practice guidance
  • Serve as a coding SME supporting product development and innovation
  • Collaborate with Data Science and Product teams to enhance performance and insights
  • Stay current on coding guidelines and industry trends

WHAT YOU'LL NEED

What You Bring

  • CCS ,CIC and / or CDIP required (CCDS preferred)
  • 3–5+ years of inpatient coding experience
  • Strong audit, data analysis, and client-facing experience
  • Ability to translate complex coding concepts into clear insights
  • Strong understanding of coding regulations, documentation guidelines, and industry trends
  • Experience working cross-functionally; healthcare tech experience is a plus

If you’re passionate about improving healthcare through data, coding, and innovation—we’d love to connect.

ABOUT WAYSTAR

Through a smart platform and better experience, Waystar helps providers simplify healthcare payments and yield powerful results throughout the complete revenue cycle.

Waystar’s healthcare payments platform combines innovative, cloud-based technology, robust data, and unparalleled client support to streamline workflows and improve financials so providers can focus on what matters most: their patients and communities. Waystar is trusted by 1M+ providers, 1K+ hospitals and health systems, and is connected to over 5K commercial and Medicaid/Medicare payers.  We are deeply committed to living out our organizational values: honesty; kindness; passion; curiosity; fanatical focus; best work, always; making it happen; and joyful, optimistic & fun.

Waystar products have won multiple Best in KLAS® or Category Leader awards since 2010 and earned multiple #1 rankings from Black Book™ surveys since 2012. The Waystar platform supports more than 500,000 providers, 1,000 health systems and hospitals, and 5,000 payers and health plans. For more information, visit waystar.com or follow @Waystar on Twitter.  

WAYSTAR PERKS

  • Competitive total rewards (base salary + bonus, if applicable)
  • Customizable benefits package (3 medical plans with Health Saving Account company match)
  • We offer generous paid time off for our non-exempt team members, starting with 3 weeks + 13 paid holidays, including 2 personal floating holidays. We also offer flexible time off for our exempt team members + 13 paid holidays
  • Paid parental leave (including maternity + paternity leave)
  • Education assistance opportunities and free LinkedIn Learning access
  • Free mental health and family planning programs, including adoption assistance and fertility support
  • 401(K) program with company match
  • Pet insurance
  • Employee resource groups

Waystar is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We celebrate, value, and support diversity and inclusion. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, marital status, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.

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