Clinical Documentation Specialist II - 8 Hour Days
Cedars Sinai
Job Description
The Clinical Documentation Specialist (CDS) II is a more experienced CDS, spending at least 75% of their time on independent reviews without supervision, creating queries, and facilitating their follow-up. Level 2 specialists create trend reports to provide insights into documentation practices and engage directly with physicians to manage queries. They spend 25% of their time mentoring the CDS I and providing feedback to leadership.
Responsibilities
- Reviews and analyzes clinical information with the electronic health record to identify areas within the chart for potential gaps in physician/provider documentation.
- Formulate credible clinical documentation clarifications to improve clinical documentation of principal diagnosis, co-morbidities, present on admission (POA), quality core measures, and patient safety indicators (PSI).
- Confirms and/or assigns a working diagnostic related group (DRG) and severity level using coding rules and guidelines with follow up reviews as required by length of stay (LOS) standards.
- Extracts essential data elements for reporting and tracking, specifically for Joint Commission record reviews, CORE measures, severity of illness (SOI)/risk of mortality (ROM) assessments, patient safety indicators (PSI), and revenue optimization criteria, dedicating full attention to core measure responsibilities.
- Engages in ongoing queries with physicians and providers to clarify and enhance documentation specificity in medical records.
- Conducts post discharge reviews for comparative analysis clinical documentation integrity (CDI) and Coding assigned codes.
- Communicates with physicians, nurse practitioners, case managers, coders and other members of the care team to facilitate comprehensive medical record documentation to reflect treatment, decision-making and medical documentation.
- Identifies trends related to documentation issues, provider specific concerns, code specific needs, etc.
- Makes presentations to peer audiences on various topics, such as clinical diagnoses, regulatory changes, guidelines, new practices, etc.
- Mentors and precepts Clinical Documentation Specialist Level 1. Initiates special clinical documentation integrity (CDI) projects for process improvement.
Qualifications
Education
- High School Diploma/GED - minimum
- Assoc. Degree/College Diploma Clinical Degree Nursing, Health Information or Foreign Trained Medical graduate. - preferred
Experience
- 2 years Performing CDI reviews within an acute care facility or bedside experience - minimum
- 3 years Utilization review, coding or case management experience - preferred
Licenses and Certification
- RN State License - Upon Hire minimum
- Certified Clinical Documentation Specialist (CCDS)
- Registerd Health Info Admin - (RHIA)
- Clinical Documentation Integrity Practitioner (CDIP)
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