Manager, Clinical Documentation Integrity

Sutter Health•Sacramento, CA

8d•$94 - $150

About The Position

Responsible for coordinating the day-to-day operations and workflow of the program. Responsible for ensuring optimized staffing, productivity, and education efforts in their market to support overall program performance metrics. Responsible for new staff onboarding, periodic employee reviews including annual evaluations, and leave requests. Tracks the professional development and educational needs for all team members. Facilitates leadership initiatives through the creation and delivery of task force activities and serves an active role in departmental meetings with key system stakeholders. Demonstrates excellent working knowledge of CDI program metrics, experience with preparing reports, and designs and reports on departmental dashboards. Effectively communicates initiatives to executives, operational leaders, and front-line staff.

Requirements

Bachelor's: Nursing
Master's in Healthcare (MPH, MHA, MS, MBA, etc.)
RN-Registered Nurse of California OR MD-Medical Doctor OR DO-Doctor of Osteopathy OR Foreign trained physician
CCS-Certified Coding Specialist within 1 year
CCDS-Certified Clinical Documentation Specialist OR CDIP-Certified Documentation Integrity Practitioner
5 years recent management experience
Knowledge of Pathophysiology and Disease Processes sufficient to pass the clinical pre-employment test at a rate of 85% or better is required.
Up-to-date knowledge of ICD-10 mandate and the impact of code set transition, including potential impact on data quality for prospective payments, utilization, and reimbursement.
Strong Organization and Quantitative Analysis skills including spreadsheet applications and statistics.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills required. Must be able to communicate effectively with a diverse group of individuals and departments, including members of the medical staff.
Dependable with a demonstrated ability to efficiently and independently manage own time and tasks with minimal supervision.
Willingness to act and dress in a professional manner at all times.
Able to manage multiple priorities and meet productivity targets
Critical thinking, problem solving and deductive reasoning skills
Demonstrated familiarity and adept use with software and technical applications including but not limited to: Microsoft Office products (Outlook, Excel, Word, PowerPoint) and Epic (Electronic Health Records).
Understand and support CDI documentation strategies
Ability to understand and communicate differences between Medicare Part A and Part B guidelines and how they impact DRG assignments (upon completion of training)
High degree of hospital coding knowledge, including but not limited to APR-DRG, MS-DRG, HCCs, Medicare, Medicaid & Managed Care, in order to design and develop strategies to yield improvements to documentation that will improve overall patient quality, capture severity, assess acuity and determine risk of mortality.
Thorough knowledge of clinical documentation requirements, clinical procedures, disease processes, treatments, and the patient populations served.
Subject matter expertise regarding quality and reimbursement implications of clinical documentation and coding.

Nice To Haves

Knowledge of Federal regulatory rules regarding documentation and coding desirable.
Knowledge of ICD-10 desirable.

Responsibilities

Coordinating the day-to-day operations and workflow of the program.
Ensuring optimized staffing, productivity, and education efforts in their market to support overall program performance metrics.
New staff onboarding, periodic employee reviews including annual evaluations, and leave requests.
Tracks the professional development and educational needs for all team members.
Facilitates leadership initiatives through the creation and delivery of task force activities and serves an active role in departmental meetings with key system stakeholders.
Demonstrates excellent working knowledge of CDI program metrics, experience with preparing reports, and designs and reports on departmental dashboards.
Effectively communicates initiatives to executives, operational leaders, and front-line staff.
Provides constructive feedback and promotes team collaboration along with guidance and CDS mentorship.
Collaborate to perform root cause analysis and assist with ongoing opportunities for process improvement.
Reviews HAC/PSI database content weekly to support CDS account review
Works in tandem to provide clear communication and expectations.
Identify areas of improvement and communicate improvement strategies to hospital leadership.
Ability to provide leadership including innovation, relationship building, conflict management, and strategic thinking.