Clinical Documentation Integrity Specialist I, Full-Time, Days

Inspire health. Serve with compassion. Be the difference.

Job Summary

This position can be 100% remote

Essential Functions

• All team members are expected to be knowledgeable and compliant with Prisma Health's purpose: Inspire health. Serve with compassion. Be the difference.

• Conducts concurrent medical record reviews of selected patient health records to address clarity, completeness, consistency and accuracy of clinical documentation.

• Employs the query process as needed to provide accurate documentation reflective of patient's severity of illness, risk of mortality, comorbid conditions, length of stay, principal diagnosis, and present on admission (POA) status.

• Completes the reconciliation process to ensure accurate coding reflective of patient's severity of illness, risk of mortality, comorbid conditions, length of stay, principal diagnosis, and present on admission (POA) status.

• Develops and maintains supportive, collaborative relationships with providers and health care team members to include education and follow up.

• Stay current with coding guideline changes, changes in treatment modalities, clinical disease indicators, and compliant query policies.

• Serves as a resource for co-workers, providers, and other support departments (coding, case management, quality, nutrition, etc.)

• Assigns a working DRG for health care team discharge planning and CDI use.

• Performs other duties as assigned

Supervisory/Management Responsibilities

• This is a non-management job that will report to a supervisor, manager, director or executive.

Minimum Requirements

• Education - Associate degree in Nursing, Health Information Management, or related field of study

• Experience - Two (2) years -adult medical/surgical/critical care/ER/PACU nursing coding or related experience

In Lieu Of

• In lieu of the education and experience requirements noted above, the following combination of education, training and/or experience may be considered an equivalent substitution: MD/DO/PA/NP

Required Certifications, Registrations, Licenses

• RHIA/RHIT/CCS/CIC/or Licensure in related field of study/ Holds a current RN compact/multistate license recognized by the NCSBN Compact State or is licensed to practice as an RN in the state the team member is working.

​Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Computer skills

• Communication skills with ability to interact with providers.

• General knowledge of IPPS, ICD10 Coding, MS-DRG/APR-DRG and HCPCS coding systems preferred

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