Clinical Documentation Coordinator

Up t0 $15,000 bonus may apply Position Summary: Responsible for improving the overall quality and completeness of clinical documentation. Facilitates modifications to clinical documentation through extensive interactions with physicians, nursing staff, other members of the health care team and Health Information Management (HIM) coding staff to ensure that appropriate reimbursement and clinical severity is captured for the level of service rendered to all patients with a DRG based payer. Job Requirement Education/Experience: Option 1: Graduation from an accredited school of nursing and three (3) years of clinical nursing experience and three (3) years clinical documentation improvement experience. Option 2: Physician graduate International MD with three (3) years of acute care experience and three (3) years Clinical Documentation Improvement (CDI) experience. Option 3: Equivalent to a Bachelor's degree in Healthcare and three (3) years Health Information Management in an acute care hospital inpatient experience and three (3) years Clinical Documentation Improvement (CDI) experience. Licensing/Certification Requirements: Option 1: Valid license by the State of Nevada to practice as a Registered Nurse and one of the following, Certified Clinical Documentation Specialist (CCDS), Certified Clinical Documentation Specialist-Outpatient (CCDS-O) or Certified Document Improvement Practitioner (CDIP). Option 2: An international medical graduate degree and one of the following: Certifi