Clinical Coder (ANZSCO 599915)
On the Regional Occupation List and Core Skills Occupation List
From the official Home Affairs skilled occupation lists, as at 2026-08-12. Lists change at each government update — always confirm on the official page before acting.
Which lists is Clinical Coder on?
ROL — Regional Occupation List. Occupations on the ROL are limited to the regional provisional visas — mainly the Skilled Work Regional 491 and Skilled Employer Sponsored Regional 494.
CSOL — Core Skills Occupation List. The employer-sponsorship list — occupations on the CSOL can be nominated for the Skills in Demand visa (subclass 482) and the Employer Nomination Scheme 186.
Visas this occupation can access
Being on a list makes the occupation nominatable for these visas — each visa still has its own requirements (points, age, English, a positive skills assessment, and for sponsored visas a willing employer or state).
- Skilled Work Regional visa (subclass 491) — Provisional, regional, points-tested · all occupations for the 491
- Skills in Demand visa (subclass 482) — Temporary, employer sponsored · all occupations for the 482
- Employer Nomination Scheme visa (subclass 186) — Permanent, employer sponsored · all occupations for the 186
- Skilled Employer Sponsored Regional visa (subclass 494) — Provisional, regional employer sponsored · all occupations for the 494
- Training visa (subclass 407) — Temporary, workplace training · all occupations for the 407
Processing priority
Clinical Coder isn't in any of the ANZSCO groups that Directions 121 and 122 list for the priority sectors. Some of the first group is defined by the job rather than the code: a nominated position directly involved in agriculture, aquaculture or fishing, one that directly supports mining, oil and gas or coal production, or one related to defence. Otherwise the application is processed after the priority sectors. For the permanent and provisional skilled visas, applicants who were in Australia when they applied come next, then those who applied from outside Australia. For the 482, Specialist Skills stream applications come before both.
Priority changes the order in which lodged applications are looked at, not whether they are granted. Who is invited to apply through SkillSelect is decided separately. See all 202 occupations in the priority sectors.
Skills assessment
A positive skills assessment for Clinical Coder comes from:
- Vocational Education and Training Assessment Services (VETASSESS) (official site) · our guide to the VETASSESS process
What the assessment actually involves
Clinical Coder is a VETASSESS Group D occupation, requiring a qualification comparable to an AQF Certificate III or higher, assessed through the family's standard four-pathway structure. VETASSESS describes health information management or medical records management as the field of study that prepares individuals to plan, design and manage the systems and processes used to collect, store, secure, retrieve and analyse health information — the specific field this occupation's evidence should demonstrate.
Where these applications come unstuck
VETASSESS's own page for this occupation is unusually direct about handing visa-eligibility questions elsewhere: “For visa-related requirements including caveats that may apply for certain occupations, please visit the Department of Home Affairs website”, rather than setting those out itself. Read that as literally as it is written — a positive VETASSESS skills assessment establishes the qualification-and-employment case, but it does not itself confirm which specific visa conditions or caveats apply to this code at the time of lodgement.
An honest read on this pathway
Clinical Coder reaches Regional Occupation List and Core Skills Occupation List routes, including employer sponsorship under subclass 482 and 186 — a genuinely open pathway for health information management professionals, and one of only a handful of codes in this family with that reach. Given VETASSESS's own instruction to check Home Affairs directly for caveats, anyone relying on this pathway should treat the visa-conditions check as a separate, necessary step rather than something the skills assessment itself settles.
VETASSESS assesses qualifications and employment separately. Both need documentation that agrees with itself. The Employment History Builder and Document Vault organise each trail before you lodge.
Talk it through with a registered agent
Whether nominating Clinical Coder is your best route depends on your points, experience evidence and timing — exactly what a MARA-registered agent works through in an initial consultation. Describe your situation once through Migratio and compare real consultation quotes from registered agents, free.
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