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SNA International seeks a bright, collaborative Medical Coder with a strong work ethic and experience with medical mortality coding experience to join the team at Armed Forces Medical Examiner’s System in Dover, DE.  SNA International’s team works together in pursuit of the same cause: build a safe and just world by empowering organizations in the use of forensics, biometrics, and identity intelligence. 

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:  

• Assist medical examiners with mortality classification of autopsy reports  
• Provide auditing, adjudication, and provide medical mortality coding oversight  
• Retrieve death data on decedents who fall under AFMES jurisdiction  
• Provide coding for individual injuries, code for cause(s) of death,  
• Perform auditing, oversight, and adjudication support, and identify missing mortality data from 1998 cases 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 the ICD-10, code the primary, secondary, tertiary, and other similar 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 the ICD10.  

Minimum Education and Experience Requirements:  

• 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 your resume and a cover letter that outlines why you should be considered for this position and position level. CVs without a cover letter will not be considered.

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