Manager CDI & Inpatient Coding
About The Position
The Manager of Inpatient Coding and Clinical Documentation Improvement (CDI) provides strategic and operational leadership to ensure accurate, complete, and compliant clinical documentation and coded data across inpatient services. This role oversees daily coding and CDI operations, establishes performance standards, and ensures alignment with regulatory requirements and organizational goals. The manager partners closely with physicians, nursing, revenue cycle, compliance, and informatics teams to drive documentation integrity, optimize reimbursement, reduce denials, and enhance the quality and reliability of clinical data. Serves as a critical dyad partner with the organizations CDI Physician Champion. This position is responsible for leading staff development, education, and performance management; advancing physician engagement and documentation improvement efforts; and leveraging data analytics to monitor key metrics such as coding quality, case mix index, and query effectiveness. The manager ensures adherence to federal and payer requirements, supports audit readiness, and leads continuous improvement initiatives that strengthen both financial outcomes and clinical data integrity across the organization.
Requirements
- Bachelors Degree in Nursing, Health Information Management, or related health care area (required)
- CCS - Certified Coding Specialist - AHIMA - American Health Information Management Association (required)
- CDIP - Clinical Documentation Integrity Practitioner - AHIMA - American Health Information Management Association (required) OR CCDS - Certified Clinical Documentation Specialist - ACDIS - Association of Clinical Documentation Integrity Specialists (required)
Nice To Haves
- RHIT - Registered Health Information Technician - AHIMA - American Health Information Management Association (preferred)
- RHIA - Registered Health Information Administrator - AHIMA - American Health Information Management Association (preferred)
- Minimum five (5) years Related work experience
- Minimum five (5) years Management experience
- Experience implementing a hospital clinical documentation improvement program
Responsibilities
- Oversees daily coding and CDI operations.
- Establishes performance standards.
- Ensures alignment with regulatory requirements and organizational goals.
- Partners with physicians, nursing, revenue cycle, compliance, and informatics teams.
- Drives documentation integrity.
- Optimizes reimbursement.
- Reduces denials.
- Enhances the quality and reliability of clinical data.
- Leads staff development, education, and performance management.
- Advances physician engagement and documentation improvement efforts.
- Leverages data analytics to monitor key metrics such as coding quality, case mix index, and query effectiveness.
- Ensures adherence to federal and payer requirements.
- Supports audit readiness.
- Leads continuous improvement initiatives.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
