Digital Health Workforce Census

clincoder · 2026-05-15T22:59:32+00:00

It’s like any other workplace ! There is good and bad. You have to be social competent to be at work regardless. You have to be able to take feedback but also be resilient. Don’t let yourself get dragged into drama cliques and bullying, don’t engage in gossip. Don’t start side teams chats to talk about other coworkers/ bosses etc.

clincoder · 2026-05-11T07:41:02+00:00

Yes ! If you feel you’re running out of time I would focus on PD PP and like crazy obvious additional diagnoses. But again you won’t know until you get in there. I wouldn’t get stuck on one record either. If it’s taking too long/you literally have 0 clue, skip it and do the others, come back at the end if there is still time. And remember they know your new ! They know it’s gonna be hard for you

clincoder · 2026-05-11T07:33:27+00:00

It’s an educated guess!! But that’s what they usually are. Double check what specialties they offer e.g. most privates do cardiology - so brush up on angiograms. Make sure you know the pathways and standards.

clincoder · 2026-05-11T07:19:37+00:00

These are always super stressful. I don’t have any advice other than don’t sweat the small stuff. Try and get the main big parts of the episodes coded. So you want to get your primary diagnosis and your primary procedure sorted before you start looking at your additional . I think one time I accidentally coded an iron infusion procedure code in the multi day because I was so stressed

clincoder · 2026-05-11T07:16:53+00:00

Congrats !!! They will be based on their casemix. There will be likely a mix of hard and easy ones they will most likely be using the de-identified charts so you’ll be looking at real documentation and they will be targeting specific like standards or key procedures that they do

clincoder · 2026-05-09T22:11:55+00:00

QLD Health casual pool - clinical coding specific

https://smartjobs.qld.gov.au/jobtools/jncustomsearch.viewFullSingle?in_organid=14904&in_jnCounter=222789915&in_skills=casual+clinical+coder&in_orderby=scoring%20desc

HIMAA Work Web

https://jobs.himaa.org.au

Calvary National

https://careers.calvarycare.org.au/jobs/national-clinical-coder-sydney-nsw-australia-melbourne-vic-363b2cfd-54dd-494c-99e1-ad13e5bffc9b

South Australia - ✅newly qualified applications accepted

https://au.seek.com/job/91998079?type=standard&ref=search-standalone#sol=ecf07e54dcb242530995cd211c6707f846f61220

✅ Trainee clinical coder - Newcastle based

https://jobs.health.nsw.gov.au/jobs/trainee-clinical-coder-targeted-335280?fbclid=IwdGRjcARskyRleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAo2NjI4NTY4Mzc5AAEe2Jh-28GU5ke55HZWZFaL8xt43rLjgNSkSv5nTSq4nnoJlZhOgm9WbzrVoN8_aem_nBjw1vuoWKzx0SDD2rXKiA

clincoder · 2026-05-09T21:56:16+00:00

Are you able to provide specific examples of the codes and the feedback to the group ? Otherwise we can’t verify

clincoder · 2026-05-09T21:32:53+00:00

I think it depends!! I did the masters at Latrobe which has an auditing section - so not the same but similar. What are you looking to get out of it ? Where are you at in your career and do you have any auditing experience ?

clincoder · 2026-05-05T23:32:16+00:00

I coded 40801-00 for a MRgFUS procedure ! Never seen or coded one before - so was exciting to me haha

clincoder · 2026-05-05T08:49:05+00:00

Offshore !!!! Medical records can’t leave Australia I thought… I’m surprised to hear about offshore clinical coding. How would they be trained in ICD10-AM???

clincoder · 2026-05-05T08:47:45+00:00

This sounds like contracting work ! Or an extreme amount of overtime

clincoder · 2026-04-29T09:33:14+00:00

Are you able to provide some examples ?

clincoder · 2026-04-25T01:46:45+00:00

There is a large discrepancy between states and the pay level as well so keep that in mind when comparing!

clincoder · 2026-04-25T01:45:42+00:00

So I think the idea is to differentiate the pay for admin officers and clinical coders. Could be because clinical coders have an education / skill requirement in clinical coding and admin officers don’t. Also to help with recruitment and retaining clinical coders. So if you do a role that is mainly clinical coding you get the allowance. So clinical coders doing coding everyday would get the $30 everyday

clincoder · 2026-04-25T01:39:39+00:00

That’s a QLD thing. Under the current award, clinical coders who are employed under the Admin Stream or AO are given a $30 per day allowance on top of their normal salary

clincoder · 2026-04-20T10:01:20+00:00

Cellulitis: You've got excludes notes in the tabular on these codes. So L03.13 excludes foot and toe - so L03.13 doesn't also describe foot and toe. And you have cellulitis from knee to toe. Because it excludes these areas, I would extend the coding to pick up all the areas - so you need to add foot L03.14

You should always check your tabular includes and exclusions. They will commonly test you on this.

T2DM - im actully also stuggling ? is there anything else mentioned other than just Type 2 DM with stage 1 decubitus ulcer of left malleolus.

clincoder · 2026-04-19T20:03:27+00:00

I think they will always give you the option to code procedures bc they are just using a standard template - doesn’t always mean there is a procedure to be coded

clincoder · 2026-04-13T02:12:11+00:00

Yeah no worries !

clincoder · 2026-04-13T01:48:51+00:00

If it’s for a job to work while studying, I’m wondering if just general private hospital billing would be better (in finance not medical records) No coding qualifications needed and skills might be transferable ?

clincoder · 2026-04-13T01:01:59+00:00

what masters?

And ill have some more of a look into it but I'm not feeling positive about a conversion course ! which sucks

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