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Medical Billing Manager

Company: Mercor · Pay: $80/hr · Location: Remote — Global · Type: contractor · Posted: 2026-09-14

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The Digital Revolution in Medical Billing: How AI and Revenue Cycle Management Are Transforming Healthcare Finance

The medical billing and claims management lifecycle represents the beating heart of healthcare institutional finance. Every single day, hospitals, multi-specialty physician networks, and ambulatory surgical centers process millions of complex claims. Ensuring that these claims successfully navigate clearinghouse validation rules, electronic data interchange (EDI) standards, and specific payer regulations requires extraordinary operational rigor. Historically, this environment has been bottlenecked by administrative delays, rejections, and extensive manual tracking.

Today, artificial intelligence is reshaping the future of healthcare revenue cycle management (RCM). Leading AI research labs are actively developing advanced machine learning models designed to automate medical billing workflows, predict claim edits, and drastically boost first-pass acceptance rates. However, programming these systems requires deep human oversight. Elite medical billing managers and claims directors possess the invaluable tacit knowledge needed to train next-generation models to think, analyze, and audit like seasoned financial professionals.

Platforms like Mercor are bridging the gap between cutting-edge AI innovation and industry-leading experts. Offering a lucrative compensation package of $80 per hour on a fully remote, flexible contract basis, the Medical Billing Manager role allows financial healthcare veterans to step into the AI frontier. Whether you want to escape the monotony of corporate micromanagement or diversify your consulting portfolio, this role empowers you to leverage your expertise on your own schedule.

Comprehensive Job Description & Core Responsibilities

For billing supervisors, revenue cycle managers, and health information management professionals looking to pivot into AI training and evaluation, understanding the core scope of work is vital. As a Medical Billing Manager on this project, your primary responsibility is to evaluate, audit, and refine automated billing algorithms and AI-generated outputs.

Key Daily Responsibilities Include:

  • End-to-End Operations Oversight: Supervise and evaluate end-to-end medical billing and claims submission workflows across professional fee (CMS-1500) and/or facility (UB-04) billing frameworks.
  • AI Output Evaluation: Assess complex AI-generated billing outputs, predictive claim edits, and coding validations for absolute accuracy, clarity, and payer-specific compliance.
  • Claims Workflow Management: Direct and evaluate electronic claim generation, clearinghouse edits, formatting rules, and multi-payer submission pipelines.
  • KPI Optimization: Monitor clean claim rates, initial rejection rates, and first-pass acceptance rates, identifying systemic bottlenecks and crafting strategic improvement pathways.
  • Cross-Departmental Collaboration: Coordinate closely with clinical documentation improvement (CDI), medical coding, and collections teams to resolve recurring billing edits and claim rejections.
  • Regulatory Compliance Management: Ensure airtight adherence to CMS billing guidelines, HIPAA 837 transaction standards, and evolving commercial insurance rules.
  • Performance & Staffing Support: Utilize your management background to evaluate billing staff workloads, productivity markers, and quality assurance benchmarks.
  • Documentation Standards: Develop and refine billing standard operating procedures (SOPs) and payer-specific reference repositories.
  • Dataset Annotation: Provide structured, highly granular annotations and professional feedback to optimize training datasets for frontier medical AI tools.

Candidate Qualifications & Professional Requirements

Because the artificial intelligence systems being trained will directly influence automated financial transactions in real-world clinical settings, the threshold for qualification is appropriately high. Candidates must demonstrate extensive real-world leadership in healthcare finance.

Essential Requirements for Applicants:
  • Professional Tenure: 5+ years of comprehensive experience in medical billing and claims management, with at least 2 solid years served in a supervisory or management capacity.
  • Technical Framework Mastery: Deep, practical knowledge of professional fee billing requirements (CMS-1500 / 837P) and/or facility billing guidelines (UB-04 / 837I).
  • EDI & Clearinghouse Expertise: Comprehensive familiarity with HIPAA 837 transaction standards, clearinghouse operational mechanics, and payer-specific adjudication rules.
  • Payer Diversity: Strong operational understanding of Medicare, Medicaid, and major commercial payer regulations.
  • Software Proficiency: Fluent working proficiency with leading medical billing software and Electronic Health Record (EHR) platforms such as Epic, Athenahealth, AdvancedMD, or equivalent enterprise systems.
  • Communication Skills: Exceptional written and verbal English communication abilities, coupled with meticulous attention to detail.

Preferred Qualifications: Active industry credentials such as CPC, CCS, CHFP, or CRCR; hands-on background implementing automated RCM technology; experience within multi-specialty physician groups or major health systems; and comfort working alongside advanced AI development workflows.

Contract Terms, Flexibility, and Seamless Global Payouts

Working as an independent contractor through Mercor offers unparalleled professional autonomy compared to traditional hospital administration roles:

  • Full Remote Flexibility: Complete your evaluation projects on your own schedule from anywhere within the United States (please note that H1-B and STEM OPT visa sponsorships are not supported for this track).
  • Dynamic Project Agility: Engagements scale flexibly with enterprise development schedules, giving you the freedom to balance contracting alongside ongoing consulting practices.
  • Reliable Weekly Compensation: Receive prompt, dependable weekly payouts via trusted financial platforms like Stripe or Wise based strictly on services rendered.

Why This Role Elevates Your Healthcare Career

For career medical billing managers who have spent decades dealing with stubborn clearinghouse rejections, complicated payer contracts, and endless administrative hurdles, this opportunity offers a refreshing paradigm shift. Instead of fighting fires in a traditional office environment, you get to work at the intellectual forefront of medical technology.

By helping shape artificial intelligence systems designed to automate and perfect the revenue cycle, you position yourself as a forward-thinking leader in healthcare innovation. Earning $80 per hour while collaborating with world-class AI researchers is an unmatched way to maximize both your income and your professional impact.

Secure Your Opportunity Today

Specialized remote positions involving healthcare AI training are experiencing massive demand, and early applicant spots fill up quickly. If you have the leadership background and technical expertise in medical billing and claims processing, take charge of your career path and apply today.

Responsibilities

  • End-to-End Operations Oversight: Supervise and evaluate end-to-end medical billing and claims submission workflows across professional fee (CMS-1500) and/or facility (UB-04) billing frameworks.
  • AI Output Evaluation: Assess complex AI-generated billing outputs, predictive claim edits, and coding validations for absolute accuracy, clarity, and payer-specific compliance.
  • Claims Workflow Management: Direct and evaluate electronic claim generation, clearinghouse edits, formatting rules, and multi-payer submission pipelines.
  • KPI Optimization: Monitor clean claim rates, initial rejection rates, and first-pass acceptance rates, identifying systemic bottlenecks and crafting strategic improvement pathways.
  • Cross-Departmental Collaboration: Coordinate closely with clinical documentation improvement (CDI), medical coding, and collections teams to resolve recurring billing edits and claim rejections.
  • Regulatory Compliance Management: Ensure airtight adherence to CMS billing guidelines, HIPAA 837 transaction standards, and evolving commercial insurance rules.
  • Performance & Staffing Support: Utilize your management background to evaluate billing staff workloads, productivity markers, and quality assurance benchmarks.
  • Documentation Standards: Develop and refine billing standard operating procedures (SOPs) and payer-specific reference repositories.

Qualifications

  • Professional Tenure: 5+ years of comprehensive experience in medical billing and claims management, with at least 2 solid years served in a supervisory or management capacity.
  • Technical Framework Mastery: Deep, practical knowledge of professional fee billing requirements (CMS-1500 / 837P) and/or facility billing guidelines (UB-04 / 837I).
  • EDI & Clearinghouse Expertise: Comprehensive familiarity with HIPAA 837 transaction standards, clearinghouse operational mechanics, and payer-specific adjudication rules.
  • Payer Diversity: Strong operational understanding of Medicare, Medicaid, and major commercial payer regulations.
  • Software Proficiency: Fluent working proficiency with leading medical billing software and Electronic Health Record (EHR) platforms such as Epic, Athenahealth, AdvancedMD, or equivalent enterprise systems.
  • Communication Skills: Exceptional written and verbal English communication abilities, coupled with meticulous attention to detail.

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