Clinical Documentation Specialist II
3 weeks ago
Position Information
Work Type: Active - Benefit Eligible and Accrues Time Off
Exempt: Yes
Work Schedule: Monday - Friday
Work Hours per Biweekly Pay Period: 80
Shift Time: flexible
Location: 210 Office Building, US:FL: Lakeland
Position Summary
Summary:
The Clinical Documentation Specialist II reports to the Manager of Clinical Documentation Integrity. Concurrently reviews patient records to improve documentation to reflect accurate severity of illness and intensity of service and communicates with physicians. Works collaboratively with HIM Director, HIM Coders, and Physician Advisor to ensure accurate coding, improve the quality of DRG-related documentation, improve risk of mortality, severity of illness and case mix index. Performs other duties as assigned.
Position Details
Detailed responsibilities:
* People At The Heart Of All We Do
- Fosters an inclusive and engaged environment through teamwork and collaboration.
- Ensures patients and families have the best possible experiences across the continuum of care.
- Communicates appropriately with patients, families, team members, and our community in a manner that treasures all people as uniquely created.
* Safety And Performance Improvement
- Behaves in a mindful manner focused on self, patient, visitor, and team safety.
- Demonstrates accountability and commitment to quality work.
- Participates actively in process improvement and adoption of standard work.
* Stewardship
- Demonstrates responsible use of LRH's resources including people, finances, equipment and facilities.
- Knows and adheres to organizational and department policies and procedures.
* Standard Work: Clinical Documentation Specialist II
- Actively participates in team development, achieving dashboards, and in accomplishing department goals and objectives.
- Works collaboratively with the healthcare team to facilitate documentation within the medical record that supports patient’s severity of illness and risk of mortality.
- Reviews clinical issues with coding team as needed to ensure appropriate MSDRG/APR-DRG.
- Conducts initial and extended-stay concurrent reviews on all selected admissions for opportunities to clarify documentation in the medical record for accurate reflection of severity of illness, and documents findings.
- Ensures the proper reflection of each patient’s severity of illness, intensity of service, and risk of mortality.
- Serves as a resource for physicians and educates physicians on ways to improve their documentation so it more accurately reflects intensity of services/severity of illness.
- Identifies need to clarify documentation in records. Conducts follow-up on unanswered queries during the patient stay, as needed, to obtain a response to open queries.
- Ensures the accuracy and completeness of clinical information used for measuring and reporting physician and hospital outcomes including Present On Admission (POA), Patient Safety Indicators (PSI), and Hospital-Acquired Conditions (HAC). Educates internal customers on clinical documentation opportunities, coding and reimbursement issues, as well as performance improvement methodologies.
- Assists in developing clinical documentation training for medical staff, UR/clinical resource coordinators, nursing and coders to ensure compliance with OIG, CMS, and other applicable regulations.
- Interacts with Physician Advisor, HIM Director, HIM Coding staff, Compliance Officer, Quality Improvement Coordinators, Department Managers, Information System staff, and Patient Financial staff on a regular basis to identify and assist in resolving documentation issues.
Qualifications & Experience
Education:
Essential:
* Bachelor Degree
Nonessential:
* Master Degree
Education equivalent experience:
Essential:
* Nursing degree (BS or BSN) or Bachelors in HIM or other healthcare related field
Nonessential:
* Healthcare related field
Other information:
Experience Essential:
- 2-5 years’ acute care clinical documentation integrity experience within the past seven years. Varied experience in ED, critical care, or general medical/surgical required.
- Experience with ICD-10-CM, ICD-10- PCS, POA, HAC, and PSI coding and documentation review and DRG analysis; OR experience with clinical documentation reviews of clinical indicators and knowledge of specificity requirements.
- Experience interacting with and educating medical staff and clinical support staff.
- Prior advanced clinical expertise and extensive knowledge of complex disease processes with broad clinical experience in an inpatient setting.
- Experience in MS-DRG and APR-DRGs, risk adjustment, HACs and PSIs, O/E mortality, and LOS.
Experience Preferred:
- Prior experience with 3M 360 Encompass clinical application and Cerner PowerChart.
- Prior experience with 3M 360 Encompass worklist prioritization and Engage One
Certification Essential:
- CDIP or CCDS. If no nursing degree, must have CCS with RHIA
License Essential:
- BSN if not a CCS with RHIT or RHIA
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