JOB DESCRIPTION

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MO-REMOTE

Worker Type : Regular

Job Summary :

Oversees and manages the daily operations and activities of the regional Clinical Documentation Improvement (CDI) program. Promotes consistent and standardized operations and documentation across the network. Builds and maintains productive inter / intra departmental and vendor work relationships to optimize operations.

Job Responsibilities and Requirements :

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Manages the daily operations and resources of assigned Clinical Documentation Improvement (CDI) team, including the development and monitoring of strategic operating goals, objectives, and data analysis; and report operational performance, justification, and / or corrective action. Provides on-going support of CDI with extensive collaboration with physicians, nursing, coding, quality, and leadership.
• Facilitates improvements to clinical documentation through chart review and educational training sessions (with CDI Educator), which could be performed onsite, with physicians and / or other clinical professionals. Initiates corrective actions to resolve any problem areas identified between CDI and any other areas of the organization.
• Collaborates with CDI educator for regional education. Provides ongoing clinical documentation management program education for new staff, including new clinical documentation registered nurses, physicians, nurses, and allied health professionals. Participates in the direction and education of all phases of the clinical documentation process.
• Supports and implements technologies designed to improve and / or ensure the accurate depiction of clinical services, patients severity of illness, and risk of mortality.
• Conducts audits on CDI reviews against quality, coding, and mortality. Provides feedback to staff and CDI educator and director. Reports monthly CDI metrics regarding KPIs and staff productivity. Strengthens technical coding practices and clinician documentation by reviewing patient records with flagged complications to ensure coding accurately reflects the patients clinical course and complexity to validateaccurate risk-adjustment for administrative metrics used in government incentive / penalty programs.
• Collaborates with interdisciplinary teams including physicians, nurse practitioners, physicians assistants, and the department managers for revenue integrity, coding and data quality, case management and health information management. Demonstrate leadership and management skills to promote effective and efficient review of physician documentation and the medical record.
• Communicateswith assigned regional / ministry physician leaders. Participates in monthly medical management meetings to report CDI metrics and act as subject matter expert for inquiries.
• Recruits, engages, develops, leads, and manages assigned staff.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

EDUCATION

EXPERIENCE

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS

REQUIRED PROFESSIONAL LICENSE AND / OR CERTIFICATIONS

State of Work Location : Illinois

State of Work Location : Missouri

State of Work Location : Oklahoma

State of Work Location : Wisconsin

Work Shift :

Day Shift (United States of America)

Job Type : Employee

Department :

Sys Clinical Documentation Improvement

Scheduled Weekly Hours :

Benefits

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