Ambulatory CDI Specialist

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Lexington Health is a comprehensive network of care that includes six community medical and urgent care centers, nearly 80 physician practices, more than 9,000 health care professionals and Lexington Medical Center, a 607-bedteachinghospital in West Columbia, South Carolina. It was selected by Modern Healthcare as one of the Best Places to Work in Healthcare and was first in the state to achieve Magnet with Distinctionstatus for excellence in nursing care.

Consistently ranked as bestin the Columbia Metroarea by U.S. News & World Report, Lexington Health delivers more than 4,000babies each year, performs more than 34,000surgeries annually and isthe region's third largest employer.

Lexington Health also includes an accredited Cancer Center of Excellence, the state’s first HeartCARE Center, the largest skilled nursing facility in the Carolinas, and an Alzheimer’s care center.

Its postgraduate medical education programs include family medicine and transitional year residencies, as well as an informatics fellowship.

The Ambulatory Clinical Documentation Integrity (CDI) Specialist is responsible for conducting comprehensive prospective and retrospective reconciliation reviews of ambulatory medical records to identify and capture documented and potential Hierarchical Condition Category (HCC) diagnoses and autosuggested conditions impacting HCC coding and Risk Adjustment Factor (RAF) scores. The specialist will query providers to ensure accurate and complete documentation that supports HCC and condition-related diagnoses, ultimately enhancing RAF score accuracy and improving risk adjustment outcomes.

In this role, the CDI Specialist is responsible for facilitating improvement in the overall quality and completeness of medical record documentation on a prospective basis. The CDI Specialist promotes modifications to medical record documentation to ensure accurate depiction of the level of clinical services provided to the patient and to completely describe patients’ severity of illness. The CDI Specialist obtains appropriate clinical documentation through collaborative communications from having developed positive working relationships with physicians, nursing staff, other patient care providers, and the coders.

The CDI Specialist is also responsible for providing informal and formal education to all members of the care team regarding clinical documentation.

Minimum Education: Associate's Degree in Nursing
Minimum Years of

Experience:

A minimum of 3 years clinical experience in nursing. Preferred experience includes CDI, coding, or risk adjustment experience in ambulatory or acute care setting.
Substitutable

Education & Experience:

None.
Required Certifications/Licensure: Current Registered Nurse (RN) License;

Certification from either AAPC (Certified Documentation Expert - Outpatient (CDEO) or Certified Risk Adjustment Coder (CRC)) or ACDIS (Certified Clinical Documentation Specialist-Outpatient (CCDS-O)) or AHIMA (Certified Coding Specialist (CCS) or Certified Documentation Improvement Practitioner (CDIP)). Those without one of the listed certifications must obtain one of the listed certifications within 2 Years of entry into the role.
Required Training: None.

• Validate the accurate assignment of working HCC diagnoses affecting RAF scores within the ambulatory patient population by collaborating with physicians and advanced practice providers.
• Conduct thorough prospective reviews of selected ambulatory patient records, documenting all relevant findings and tracking key information throughout the process.
• Identify areas where documentation requires clarification and engage with physicians, advanced practice…