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A leading healthcare organization seeks a Consultant who will enhance clinical documentation through education and collaboration. This mid-level position requires a motivated professional with a strong background in Clinical Documentation Improvement, particularly in a hospital setting. The successful candidate will work closely with healthcare teams to ensure accuracy in clinical records, facilitate documentation improvements, and drive performance outcomes.
BRG’s Healthcare Performance Improvement practice works with healthcare providers to identify and implement measurable and sustainable financial, clinical, and operational performance improvements. We combine comprehensive expertise, experience, and analytics to deliver data-driven, innovative approaches to help hospitals, health systems, academic medical centers, and other providers tackle their most complex problems. We have assessed and implemented nearly $1 billion in cost savings and revenue improvement for our diverse set of clients over the last ten years.
TheConsultantposition is a mid level consulting staff position. This position requires a highly motivated problem solver with strong analytical ability and a desire to advance within the organization. An individual with an entrepreneurial spirit and an ability to apply creative solutions is a natural fit for this position. The Consultant is an integral part of the CDI team and works closely with the client’s CDI team, supporting classroom education and mentoring. They are responsible for ensuring the successful transfer of CDI best practices from the consulting team to the client team. The Consultant also facilitates accurate documentation for severity of illness (SOI) and quality in the medical record, which involves extensive record review and interaction with physicians, health information management professionals, coding professionals, and nursing staff.
Responsibilities:
-Review inpatient medical records for identified payer populations on admission and throughout hospitalization.
- Analyze clinical information to identify areas within the chart for potential gaps in physician documentation.
- Formulate credible clinical documentation clarifications to improve clinical documentation of principal diagnosis, co-morbidities, present on admission (POA), quality measures, and patient safety indicators (PSI).
- Facilitate modifications to clinical documentation through extensive interaction with physicians, nurses, and ancillary staff.
- Work collaboratively with the coding staff to assure documentation of discharge diagnoses and comorbidities are a complete reflection of the patient’s clinical status and care.
- Develop and implement plans for education of physician, nursing, and ancillary staff on documentation improvement.
Candidate must be able to submit verification of his/her legal right to work in the U.S., without company sponsorship.