Coord, Clinical Documentation Quality, MO

• 97583 Job Description Additional Information About the Role BJC HealthCare is seeking an experienced CDI professional to join our team as a CDI Quality Coordinator! Applicants MUST have completed their BSN, and CDI certification. This role requires 5+ years experience in a CDI position. In this role you will be performing second level review on complete CDI cases, training CDI members, and handling the hotline for any questions from other CDI members. Overview BJC HealthCare is one of the largest nonprofit health care organizations in the United States, delivering services to residents primarily in the greater St. Louis, southern Illinois and southeast Missouri regions. With net revenues of $6.3 billion and more than 30,000 employees, BJC serves patients and their families in urban, suburban and rural communities through its 14 hospitals and multiple community health locations. Services include inpatient and outpatient care, primary care, community health and wellness, workplace health, home health, community mental health, rehabilitation, long-term care and hospice. BJC is the largest provider of charity care, unreimbursed care and community benefits in the state of Missouri. BJC and its hospitals and health service organizations provide $785.9 million annually in community benefit. That includes $410.6 million in charity care and other financial assistance to patients to ensure medical care regardless of their ability to pay. In addition, BJC provides additional community benefits through commitments to research, emergency preparedness, regional health care safety net services, health literacy, community outreach and community health programs and regional economic development. BJC’s patients have access to the latest advances in medical science and technology through a formal affiliation between Barnes-Jewish Hospital and St. Louis Children’s Hospital with the renowned Washington University School of Medicine, which consistently ranks among the top medical schools in the country. Preferred Qualifications Role Purpose The Documentation Quality Coordinator (DQC) works at the enterprise level and uses their extensive Clinical Documentation Improvement (CDI) experience to perform second level reviews of complex clinical cases and focused reviews of target case populations prior to final coding and billing across BJC. This position responds to review requests from across the system and escalates unanswered queries to Physician Champions. This position also analyzes data & reports and educates facility-based CDI staff and medical providers on hospital/enterprise level trends and areas of opportunity. Responsibilities • Reviews clinical documentation to facilitate the accurate representation of the severity of illness, expected risk of mortality, and complexity of care by improving the quality of the physician’s clinical documentation; performs retrospective reviews for DRG verification according to the OIG (Office of Inspector General) workplan and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), noting organizational trends or patterns. • Demonstrates a thorough understanding of the MS-DRG system, CCs/MCCs, impact on quality, and CMI as well as ICD-10 coding systems and the guidelines related to clinical documentation improvement; serves as a resource for the clinical documentation improvement specialist team. • Leads provider engagement, establishes standards, relationships and maintenance for shared accountability related to enterprise CDI and documentation improvement efforts, with all providers across the enterprise. • Identifies enterprise trends, variances, deficiencies, and problems utilizing aggregated data and information as part of the integrated clinical documentation improvement program; performs provider and group level CDI data trend analysis, issue identification and solution proposal to leadership. • Leads and manages ongoing documentation improvement initiatives across service lines and across hospitals including formal and informal education plans related to clinical documentation improvement; leads enterprise functional teams for education, standard queries, standard process & technology, analytics, etc.; acts as a consultant to quality managers, management team, medical staff and health care staff regarding core measure performance and clinical documentation opportunities; leads and/or participates in hospital(s) and organization projects related to documentation improvement; coordinates and collaborates with enterprise CDI for standards in content, process, and technologies. Minimum Requirements Education • Bachelor's Degree - NursingExperience • 5-10 years Licenses & Certifications • Cert Clinical Documentation • RN Preferred Requirements Education • Master's Degree - NursingSupervisor Experience • No Experience Licenses & Certifications • Certified Coding Spec • Cert Doc Improve Practitioner • Certified Rev Cycle Rep Benefits and Legal Statement BJC Total Rewards At BJC we’re committed to providing you and your family with benefits and resources to help you manage your physical, emotional, social and financial well-being. • Comprehensive medical, dental, vison, life insurance, and legal services available first day of the month after hire date • Disability insurance* paid for by BJC • Annual 4% BJC Automatic Retirement Contribution • 401(k) plan with BJC match • Tuition Assistance available on first day • BJC Institute for Learning and Development • Health Care and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts • Paid Time Off benefit combines vacation, sick days, holidays and personal time • Adoption assistance To learn more, go to our Benefits Summary • Not all benefits apply to all jobs The above information on this description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees in this position. 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