Inpatient CDI Specialist: Clinical Documentation Excellence

Baptist Health; United States; Remote; USD 70,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Baptist Health seeks a Clinical Document Integrity Specialist to join the CDI team at Baptist Metro Square in Jacksonville, FL. This full-time day-shift role focuses on ensuring accurate documentation to support proper DRG assignments and high-quality patient care.

The ideal candidate has 3-5 years of coding and utilization review experience, at least four years of acute care nursing, and active RN/ARNP/NP/PA licensure, with leadership experience preferred.

Qualifications

• 3-5 years of coding experience required.
• 3-5 years of experience working in an acute care setting required.
• Minimum of four years of acute care nursing experience.
• 3-5 years of utilization review experience preferred.
• 3-5 years of knowledge of Coding Clinic guidelines preferred.
• Leadership experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate improvements in the quality, completeness, and compliance of clinical documentation through collaboration with physicians, nursing, patient care providers, and coding staff.
• Conduct initial and concurrent reviews of patient admissions to ensure clinical documentation is accurate and complete.
• Ensure documentation accurately reflects patient outcomes and supports appropriate DRG assignment, to the extent agreed upon by the physician.
• Monitor patient status assignments and use designated, approved tools to track case progress.
• Serve as a resource to physicians and coding staff regarding clinical documentation and the appropriateness of inpatient DRG assignment.
• Identify opportunities to improve clinical documentation and support accurate, compliant reporting of patient care.

Skills

Coding experience

Acute care nursing

Nursing licensure

Utilization review

Coding Clinic guidelines

Leadership

Education

ASN

BSN

MD

Job description

Baptist Health seeks a Clinical Document Integrity Specialist to join the CDI team at Baptist Metro Square in Jacksonville, FL. This full-time day-shift role focuses on ensuring accurate documentation to support proper DRG assignments and high-quality patient care.

The ideal candidate has 3-5 years of coding and utilization review experience, at least four years of acute care nursing, and active RN/ARNP/NP/PA licensure, with leadership experience preferred.