Clinical Documentation Integrity Specialist

# Clinical Documentation Integrity SpecialistWork Location **Los Angeles,CA**Job **#31866**Work Hours **Monday – Friday, 6:00 AM – 3:00 PM PST**Employment Type **2 – Staff- Career**Duration **Indefinite**Salary Range **$100161.36-218718 Annually**Posted Date **July 21, 2026**Bargaining Unit **UPTE – HX**Apply NowApply as Internal/Current EmployeeBack to Search ResultsRefer A FriendMake a difference in people’s lives every day. When you join UCLA Health, you’ll be working at an institution that provides leading-edge care to the people of L.A. and throughout the world. We provide our team members with the environment and support to do amazing work, because each and every one of them plays a vital role in our commitment to care.* ## JOB DUTIES* ## JOB QUALIFICATIONS**Description**Make a positive impact on one of the nation’s top health systems. Help ensure the efficient delivery of award-winning patient care. Take your professional expertise to the next level. UCan do all this and more at UCLA Health.You will become a member of our highly successful Clinical Documentation Integrity and Denial Management team, including all modalities. This role involves daily review of high-acuity patient records to identify potential and active payer denials, assess clinical validity, and to support denial prevention, analysis, and appeals across inpatient and outpatient settings; continuously communicating with department staff; educating physicians, residents, and mid-levels; and assisting with appropriate documentation strategies.Partnering with Medical Coding, Clinical Documentation Integrity, Case Management, and the Quality team, you will gather/analyze information to provide comprehensive medical record documentation that accurately reflects clinical treatment, decisions, and diagnoses. Leveraging your denial management experience, clinical expertise, and coding knowledge to identify opportunities and ensure accuracy and completeness of clinical documentation for denial prevention. You will prepare and submit high quality appeal letters supported by clinical evidence, regulatory guidelines, and payor-specific medical necessity criteria, while identifying denial trends and root causes and provide feedback to the CDI and Clinical teams.**Salary Range: $100,161.36 – $218,718.00/year** #J-18808-Ljbffr