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General Information

Work Location: Los Angeles, USA
Onsite or Remote
Fully Remote
Work Schedule
Monday - Friday, 6:00 AM-3:00 PM PST
Posted Date
10/29/2024
Salary Range: $92600 - 202200 Annually
Employment Type
2 - Staff: Career
Duration
Indefinite
Job #
20265

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

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 of our Documentation Improvement Integrity team, including all modalities. This will involve daily reviews of high acuity patient records; continuously communicating with department staff; educating physicians, residents and mid-levels; and assisting with appropriate documentation strategies. Partnering with Medical Coding, 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. You will utilize your clinical expertise and coding knowledge to identify opportunities and ensure accuracy and completeness of clinical documentation. You will also leverage physician queries to improve documentation quality while providing key support to medical coders, case managers and Quality staff.

Salary Range: $92,600.00 - $202,200.00/year

Job Qualifications

We’re seeking a detail-oriented, collaborative, self-directed individual with:

·       Bachelor’s degree in health-related field, preferred

·       A Registered Nurse (RN) license or MD diploma (or equivalent) required

·       Five or more years of clinical hospital experience; or equivalent of education and experience in case management, utilization management or prior clinical documentation review experience, required

·       Knowledge of coding guidelines and coding clinic, required

·       Knowledge of laws, rules and regulations regarding appropriate clinical documentation for Medicare, Medi-Cal, CCS etc.

·       Strong leadership, supervisory, and training skills

·       Excellent critical thinking abilities

·       Experience working within EPIC and 3M 360 Encompass CAC, required

·       Resourcefulness and strong communication, organizational, and analytical skills

·       Ability to work effectively with physician/staff and interdisciplinary teams

·       Computer proficiency and proficiency in Word, Excel and PowerPoint, required

·       Skill in abstracting/interpreting medical information from patient records, required

·       Clinical experience sufficient to understand and communicate medical diagnoses and courses of treatment to professional and non-professional personnel, required

·       Knowledge of computer word processing, database programs, and ability to write reports and do graphical analysis, required

Note: Skills may be subject to test.



As a condition of employment, the final candidate who accepts a conditional offer of employment will be required to disclose if they have been subject to any final administrative or judicial decisions within the last seven years determining that they committed any misconduct; received notice of any allegations or are currently the subject of any administrative or disciplinary proceedings involving misconduct; have left a position after receiving notice of allegations or while under investigation in an administrative or disciplinary proceeding involving misconduct; or have filed an appeal of a finding of misconduct with a previous employer.