Outpatient Adult Clinical Documentation Integrity Specialist

Overview

Make a positive impact on one of the nation's top health systems. Help ensure the efficient delivery of award-winning patient care. Take your professional expertise to the next level. UCan do all this and more at UCLA Health.

You will become a member of our highly successful of our Documentation Improvement Integrity team, including all modalities. This will involve daily reviews of high acuity patient records; continuously communicating with department staff; educating physicians, residents and mid-levels; and assisting with appropriate documentation strategies. Partnering with Medical Coding, Case Management and the Quality team, you will gather / analyze information to provide comprehensive medical record documentation that accurately reflects clinical treatment, decisions, and diagnoses. You will utilize your clinical expertise and coding knowledge to identify opportunities and ensure accuracy and completeness of clinical documentation. You will also leverage physician queries to improve documentation quality while providing key support to medical coders, case managers and Quality staff.

Salary Range : $95,400 - $208,300 / year

Responsibilities

• Partner with Medical Coding, Case Management and the Quality team, gather / analyze information to provide comprehensive medical record documentation that accurately reflects clinical treatment, decisions, and diagnoses. You will utilize your clinical expertise and coding knowledge to identify opportunities and ensure accuracy and completeness of clinical documentation. You will also leverage physician queries to improve documentation quality while providing key support to medical coders, case managers and Quality staff.
• Review daily reviews of high acuity patient records; continuously communicating with department staff; educating physicians, residents and mid-levels; and assisting with appropriate documentation strategies.

Qualifications

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