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Location:
Altru Health System
PO Box 6002
Grand Forks, ND 58201
Pay Range: $87,300.00 - $130,915.00
Summary:
Manager of Clinical Documentation Integrity (CDI)
Position Summary
Altru Health System is seeking a dynamic and results-driven Manager of Clinical Documentation Integrity (CDI) to lead and support our CDI team. This leadership role is responsible for driving operational excellence through performance improvement initiatives, fiscal stewardship, and the development of a highly engaged and effective team. The Manager of CDI will collaborate with clinical, revenue cycle, and organizational leaders to ensure documentation integrity supports quality patient care, regulatory compliance, and organizational objectives.
This is a hybrid position with a standard schedule of Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Qualifications
Required
Associate degree in Nursing, Healthcare Administration, Health Information Management, or a related healthcare field.
Minimum of five (5) years of relevant healthcare experience.
Demonstrated leadership experience with a track record of driving performance improvement and achieving organizational goals.
Preferred
Bachelor's degree in Healthcare Administration, Nursing, Health Information Management, or a related field.
Experience leading Clinical Documentation Integrity (CDI), Health Information Management (HIM), coding, revenue cycle, or related healthcare operations teams.
Ideal Candidate
The ideal candidate is a collaborative and strategic healthcare leader who excels at building engaged teams, improving operational performance, and balancing quality outcomes with fiscal responsibility. They possess strong communication skills, effective problem-solving abilities, and a passion for developing high-performing teams while advancing organizational objectives.
Job Profile Summary
The Manager Clinical Documentation Integrity (CDI) provides strategic leadership, oversight, and evaluation of the organization’s Inpatient and Professional Fee/Ambulatory CDI programs. This role oversees Clinical Documentation Specialists (CDS) and supports the development, implementation, and continuous improvement of CDI workflows, education, quality initiatives, and performance-management processes.
The Manager collaborates with physicians, physician champions, coding, case management, revenue cycle, compliance, finance, and other organizational leaders to promote accurate, complete, and compliant clinical documentation. Responsibilities include oversight of Inpatient CDI outcomes such as case mix index, length of stay, observed-to-expected mortality, query activity, and principal diagnosis accuracy, as well as ProFee CDI outcomes related to evaluation and management (E/M) accuracy, HCC capture and recapture, beneficiary risk adjustment factor (RAF) scores, and provider documentation improvement.
Essential Job Functions:
Leads, develops, coaches, and evaluates the CDI team while fostering a collaborative, high-performing environment.
Provides strategic oversight of Inpatient and Professional Fee CDI operations, including staffing, recruitment, onboarding, productivity, quality, and performance expectations.
Establishes and monitors program goals, metrics, and action plans related to query performance, CMI, LOS, mortality, principal diagnosis accuracy, E/M accuracy, HCC capture, RAF performance, and education outcomes.
Communicates program performance, successes, risks, and improvement opportunities to CDI leadership, administration, physicians, and other stakeholders.
Oversee quality assurance and second-level review activities, including retrospective review of CDS work and provider documentation opportunities.
Coordinates with coding, compliance, case management, revenue cycle, finance, physician leadership, and physician champions to align CDI activities with organizational and regulatory requirements.
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