CDI Medical Director

St. Joseph's Health•Paterson, NJ
•$146 - $169•Onsite

About The Position

The Clinical Documentation Integrity (CDI) Medical Director provides physician leadership for the CDI program by promoting accurate, complete, and compliant clinical documentation that accurately reflects the severity of illness, risk of mortality, quality of care, and resource utilization. This role collaborates with physicians, CDI specialists, coding professionals, case management, utilization review, quality, and hospital leadership to improve documentation practices, ensure regulatory compliance, optimize reimbursement, and improve patient outcomes. The CDI Medical Director serves as a physician champion for documentation excellence, supporting clinical integrity, quality reporting, and organizational performance through interdisciplinary collaboration and physician engagement.

Requirements

  • Physician leadership for CDI program
  • Accurate, complete, and compliant clinical documentation
  • Accurate reflection of severity of illness, risk of mortality, quality of care, and resource utilization
  • Collaboration with physicians, CDI specialists, coding professionals, case management, utilization review, quality, and hospital leadership
  • Improvement of documentation practices
  • Ensuring regulatory compliance
  • Optimization of reimbursement
  • Improvement of patient outcomes
  • Physician champion for documentation excellence
  • Support of clinical integrity, quality reporting, and organizational performance through interdisciplinary collaboration and physician engagement

Responsibilities

  • Provides physician leadership for the CDI program.
  • Promotes accurate, complete, and compliant clinical documentation.
  • Ensures documentation accurately reflects severity of illness, risk of mortality, quality of care, and resource utilization.
  • Collaborates with physicians, CDI specialists, coding professionals, case management, utilization review, quality, and hospital leadership.
  • Improves documentation practices.
  • Ensures regulatory compliance.
  • Optimizes reimbursement.
  • Improves patient outcomes.
  • Serves as a physician champion for documentation excellence.
  • Supports clinical integrity, quality reporting, and organizational performance through interdisciplinary collaboration and physician engagement.

Benefits

  • Competitive salary
  • Robust benefits with health, dental, Rx and vision plans
  • 403b retirement plan options with company match
  • Health & Wellness
  • Non-Profit Health System – eligible for Federal Student Loan Forgiveness
  • PTO, and paid holidays
  • Tuition reimbursement
  • Employee Assistance Program
  • LTD : Long Term Disability
  • Life Insurance Options
  • Onsite Day care Program
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