Educator, Clinical Documentation Integrity

R1 is the leading provider of technology-driven solutions that transform the patient experience and financial performance of hospitals, health systems, and medical groups. We are the one company that combines the deep expertise of a global workforce of revenue cycle professionals with the industry’s most advanced technology platform, encompassing sophisticated analytics, AI, intelligent automation, and workflow orchestration.  

As our Clinical Documentation Integrity Educator, you will help strengthen documentation quality, coding accuracy, and CDI performance by providing education, coaching, and process improvement support across inpatient acute care settings.

Every day you will:

• Develop and deliver CDI education for Clinical Documentation Specialists and physicians.
• Analyze documentation and coding trends to identify opportunities for quality improvement.
• Partner with CDI, coding, compliance, and operational leaders to drive documentation excellence and workflow standardization.

To thrive in this role, you must have strong inpatient, acute CDI experience, advanced clinical documentation knowledge, and a passion for educating and mentoring others while driving continuous improvement.

Here's what you'll experience working as an Educator, Clinical Documentation Integrity:

• Create and deliver engaging education programs on clinical documentation, coding guidelines, regulatory standards, and CDI best practices.
• Provide coaching, mentoring, onboarding, and ongoing development for CDI staff and physicians.
• Monitor CDI metrics, conduct audits, analyze trends, and recommend performance improvement initiatives.
• Serve as a subject matter expert (SME) on clinical documentation integrity, documentation guidelines, and CDI-related technology platforms.
• Collaborate with coding, compliance, and operational teams to ensure documentation supports accurate coding, reimbursement, and regulatory compliance.
• Lead or support cross-functional projects, system implementations, workflow enhancements, and documentation standardization initiatives.
• Improve provider documentation and query practices to accurately reflect patient severity, quality outcomes, and care delivered.
• Support day-to-day CDI operations and assist with complex documentation scenarios as business needs require.

Required Skills:

• Active U.S. Registered Nurse (RN) license.
• Associate Degree in Nursing required; Bachelor's Degree in Nursing preferred.
• 3–5 years of inpatient acute care CDI and auditing experience.
• 3–5 years of clinical nursing experience in a medical-surgical, ICU, telemetry, or emergency department setting.
• Strong knowledge of CDI practices, ICD-10, MS-DRG/APR-DRG methodology, and healthcare documentation standards.
• Experience presenting, coaching, educating, and influencing multidisciplinary teams.
• Excellent analytical, communication, and collaboration skills.

Preferred Skills:

• Additional two years of inpatient, acute CDI Educator experience.
• Experience with Epic, Meditech, Cerner, Iodine, Optum, SmarterDx, Nuance CDE One, 3M 360, or similar technology platforms.

For this US-based position, the base pay range is $50,640.00 - $137,481.25 per year . Individual pay is determined by role, level, location, job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

This job is eligible to participate in our annual bonus plan at a target of 10.00%

The healthcare system is always evolving — and it’s up to us to use our shared expertise to find new solutions that can keep up. On our growing team you’ll find the opportunity to constantly learn, collaborate across groups and explore new paths for your career.

Our associates are given the chance to contribute, think boldly and create meaningful work that makes a difference in the communities we serve around the world. We go beyond expectations in everything we do. Not only does that drive customer success and improve patient care, but that same enthusiasm is applied to giving back to the community and taking care of our team — including offering a competitive benefits package.

R1 RCM Inc. (“the Company”) is dedicated to the fundamentals of equal employment opportunity. The Company’s employment practices , including those regarding recruitment, hiring, assignment, promotion, compensation, benefits, training, discipline, and termination shall not be based on any person’s age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, medical condition, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. Furthermore, the Company is dedicated to providing a workplace free from harassment based on any of the foregoing protected categories.

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