Senior Clinical Doc Specialist - 12343

Posted On October 15, 2025

Description

Senior Clinical Doc Specialist

Location : Larkin Bldg @ Exchange Street

Location of Job

US : NY : Buffalo

Work Type

Full-Time

Shift 1

Job Description

Promote an accurate and meaningful database that clearly demonstrates the resources used in the patient's care. Act as an essential resource to the clinical team and collaborates extensively with Physicians / Providers, HIM coding team, Nursing, Patient Management, Quality Department and ancillary staff to perform concurrent analytical review of clinical documentation and coding data. Facilitates obtaining appropriate clinical documentation for any clinical conditions or procedures to support the appropriate severity of illness, expected risk of mortality, and complexity of care of the patient. The goal is to improve documentation of all conditions and treatments from point of entry to discharge, ensuring an accurate reflection of the patient condition in the associated DRG assignments, case-mix index, documentation / coded quality metrics, and reimbursement. Exhibits a sufficient knowledge of clinical documentation requirements, DRG assignment, and clinical conditions and / or procedures. Educate members of the patient care team regarding clinical documentation guidelines and impact, including attending Physicians, Advanced care practitioners, Residents / Medical students, Business Advisor's and other members of the health care team. Also responsible for audit review to identify potential documentation deficiencies in specific records and to identify clinical specialties that require focused interaction and physician / provider education. In addition, leads all service line provider engagement, relationship establishment and oversees ongoing documentation improvement initiatives including formal and informal education related to clinical documentation improvement to providers and the team. Oversees the general departmental orientation and development of new team members. Assist management in the generation and maintenance of analytic reports on routine basis and as needed. Responsible for additional assignments that require leadership abilities.

Education And Credentials

Bachelors degree required. Registered Nurse required. Cert. Clinical Doc Specialist (CCS) required

Experience

5 years of experience in Patient Management, acute care, medical / surgical or ICU / ED as a licensed Registered Nurse required. 5 years of experience in Clinical Documentation Specialist field, coding classifications systems such as, but not limited to, ICD- CM, AP-DRG, APR -DRG, MS-DRG required. Clinical Documentation Specialist duties and responsibilities required.

Working Conditions

• Weight Requirement - Light (up to 20 lbs)

Department : KH Clinical Documentation

Standard Hours Bi-Weekly : 75.00

Weekend / Holiday Requirement : No

On Call Required : No

With Rotation : No

Scheduled Work Hours : 7a-3p, 7 : 30a-3 : 30p, 8a-4p

Work Arrangement : Hybrid

Union Code : N00 - Non Union KH

Requisition ID# : 12343

Grade : EX213

Pay Frequency : Bi-Weekly

Salary Range : $34.84 - $47.91

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