CDI Implementation Consultant - Travel - Location: Open - Full-time / Part-time

If you want to achieve more in your mission of health care, you have to be really smart about the business of health care. Challenge yourself, your peers and our industry by shaping what health care looks like and doing your life's best work.(sm)

Primary Responsibilities:

• Utilizes appropriate clinical documentation to identify opportunities and ensure accuracy and completeness of clinical documentation used for measuring and reporting physician and hospital outcomes


• Performs concurrent hospital-wide medical record reviews facilitating improvement in the quality, completeness and accuracy of medical record documentation to ensure coding compliance, accurate reporting, and improved patient outcomes


• Acts as organizational consultant, and provides education for members of the patient care team, including medical staff, on documentation guidelines on an on-going basis


• Identifies, and facilitates implementation of strategies for sustained work process changes that facilitate complete and accurate clinical documentation


• Utilizes philosophies and practices to support Patient Service Excellence, such as AIDET, rounding with purpose, and discharge calls, etc. to optimize healing environment and patient outcomes


• Works collaboratively with others to ensure hospital-wide improvement in meeting quality, core measures, and patient service excellence goals


• Performs duties in accordance with departmental policies and procedures, objectives, quality assurance programs, safety, environmental and infection control standards


• Ensures safety activities and medical center processes are accurately accessed and documented


• Demonstrates knowledge of the occurrence reporting system. Uses system to report potential patient safety issues

Required Qualifications:

• 3+ years of Clinical Documentation Improvement with a good understanding of Revenue Cycle (Coding Process)


• Full understanding of product life-cycles and project management


• Experience in Quality, Case Management, Clinical Auditing or Data Abstraction necessary


• Superior analytical skills for assessing market opportunities and competition


• Must be willing and able to travel, including overnight, as needed up to 80% of time

Preferred Qualifications:

• RN degree   


• 3+ three years of clinical experience in acute care setting. Critical Care, Emergency department, or Telemetry nursing


• A good understanding of ICD9/ ICD-10 CPT coding

Health care isn't just changing. It's growing more complex every day. ICD10 replaces ICD9. Affordable Care adds new challenges and financial constraints. Where does it all lead? Hospitals and health care organizations continue to adapt, and we are a vital part of their evolution. And that's what fueled these exciting new opportunities.

Optum360 is a dynamic new partnership formed by Dignity Health and Optum to combine our unique expertise. As part of the growing family of UnitedHealth Group, we'll leverage all our resources to bring financial clarity and a full suite of revenue management services to health care providers nationwide.

If you're looking for a better place to use your passion and your desire to drive change, this is the place to be. It's an opportunity to do your life's best work.(sm)

Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.

UnitedHealth Group is a drug-free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment.

Job keywords: CDI, Clinical Documentation Improvement, Revenue Cycle, Travel, RN, ICD-9, ICD-10, flexible location