Offer summary

Qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree with three years acute healthcare nursing experience, or an associate degree with five years acute healthcare experience., Two years of clinical documentation integrity experience is required., Knowledge of ICD10-CM coding principles and procedures, and DRG assignment is essential., Valid Kentucky or Indiana Licensure as a Registered Nurse, CCDS and/or CDIP is necessary..

Key responsabilities:

Ensure the overall quality of clinical documentation integrity functions across Baptist Health.

Assist the CDI team, physicians, and hospital staff to improve the integrity of medical record documentation.

Provide guidance on documentation best practices and keep up-to-date with coding guidelines.

Utilize clinical validation and coding expertise to support documentation integrity efforts.

Founded in 1924 in Louisville, Kentucky, Baptist Health is a full-spectrum health system dedicated to improving the health of the communities it serves. The Baptist Health family consists of nine hospitals, employed and independent physicians, and more than 400 points of care, including outpatient facilities, physician practices and services, urgent care clinics, outpatient diagnostic and surgery centers, home care, fitness centers, and occupational medicine and physical therapy clinics. Baptist Health’s eight owned hospitals include more than 2,300 licensed beds in Corbin, Elizabethtown, La Grange, Lexington, Louisville, Paducah, Richmond and New Albany, Indiana. Baptist Health also operates the 410-bed Baptist Health Deaconess Madisonville in Madisonville, Kentucky in a joint venture with Deaconess Health System based in Evansville, Indiana. Baptist Health employs more than 23,000 people in Kentucky and surrounding states. Baptist Health is the first health system in the U.S. to have all of its hospitals recognized by the American Nursing Credentialing Center with either a Magnet® or Pathway to Excellence® designation for nursing excellence. Baptist Health’s employed provider network, Baptist Health Medical Group, has nearly 1,500 providers, including more than 750 physicians and more than 740 advanced practice clinicians. Baptist Health’s physician network also includes more than 2,000 independent physicians. Learn more at BaptistHealth.com.

Job description

Job Description:

Baptist Health is looking for a Clinical Documentation Integrity Data Analytics Nurse to join our team. This is a remote position that requires residency in KY or IN

Clinical Documentation Auditor/Educator is accountable to ensuring the overall quality of clinical documentation integrity functions across Baptist Health. Auditor/Educator assists the CDI team, physicians, and hospital staff to constantly improve the integrity of medical record documentation utilizing their clinical validation and coding expertise. The Auditor/Educator will provide guidance on documentation best practices by keeping up-to-date knowledge of Coding Clinic, coding guidelines, and clinical validation criteria.

Minimum Education, Experience, Training and Licensures Required

Bachelor’s degree with three years acute healthcare nursing experience including two years clinical documentation integrity
experience; In lieu of Bachelor’s degree, an associate degree in nursing with five years acute healthcare experience including two years clinical documentation integrity experience.
Knowledge of ICD10-CM coding principles and procedures, DRG assignment. Proficiency with Microsoft Office products, data entry and data retrieval systems, Encoder, and internet.
Valid Kentucky or Indiana Licensure as a Registered Nurse, CCDS and/or CDIP, member of ACDIS or AHIM