Clinical Documentation Specialist II

CommonSpirit Health Mountain Region is committed to building healthier communities, advocating for those who are poor and vulnerable, and innovating how and where healing can happen—both inside our hospitals and out in the community. With locations throughout Colorado, Utah, and Kansas, we deliver the same high standard of care to our employees as we do to our patients. Our 20 hospitals, emergency and urgent care centers, home care and hospice, Flight for Life Colorado^TM , telehealth and over 240 physician practices and clinics offer endless opportunities! Here, you can grow your career and impact the people in the communities you serve.

CommonSpirit Health is one of the nation’s largest nonprofit, faith-based health systems, with a team of over 150,000 employees and 25,000 physicians and advanced practice clinicians. CommonSpirit operates more than 2,200 care sites and 140 hospitals, serving some of the most diverse communities across the nation, letting humankindness lead the way.

You have a purpose, unique talents and now is the time to embrace it, live it and put it to work. We value incredible people with incredible skills – but your commitment to a greater cause is something we value even more. This is the heartbeat of our organization and your time will be spent in a supportive, team environment with resources to help you flourish and leaders who care about your success.

The Clinical Documentation Integrity Specialist (CDIS) II is a registered nurse with a broad clinical knowledge base and excellent understanding of clinical documentation improvement strategies and requirements. The CDIS II serves as a CDI subject matter expert to follow developments in clinical documentation and provide support to colleagues, CDI Team Leaders, CDI Manager, and in collaboration with the CDI Lead Educators and Quality Liaison. The CDIS II will contribute to content development, education and training materials, and ongoing service line documentation improvement initiatives.
Under indirect supervision, the CDIS II facilitates and obtains appropriate provider documentation for any clinical conditions or procedures to support the appropriate severity of illness, expected risk of mortality, and complexity of patient care. Educates members of the patient care team regarding clinical documentation guidelines and regulatory requirements, including attending physicians, allied health practitioners, nursing, coding and case management. Supports timely, accurate, and complete documentation of clinical information used for measuring and reporting hospital and physician-based outcomes. Will identify quality of care issues in documentation and will seek resolution of issues through appropriate channels. Works independently majority of the time with a high degree of autonomy. Position may include remote working rotation.

This position is remote available in the following states:

In addition to bringing humankindness to the workplace each day, qualified candidates will need the following:

• Nursing Diploma or Associates Degree Required
• Bachelor Degree in Nursing, preferred
• 3 years nursing experience in the inpatient hospital setting (critical care and/or strong med/surg experience preferred).
  
• Experienced Clinical Documentation Improvement (CDI) Specialist or equivalent clinical experience with demonstrable CDI subject matter expertise.
  
• Must demonstrate Clinical competency through successfully passing Clinical Competency exam through Nuance.
  
• Must demonstrate CDI software competency through passing Clintegrity exam within 6 months of starting role.
  
• Experience in health information management or hospital quality program is beneficial (not required) Demonstrates ability to construct clinically valid, clear, and concise clarifications with provider response rates in concordance with expertise.
  
• Demonstrates ability to meet CDI program benchmarking standards.
  
• Qualified candidate will be self-motivated with excellent interpersonal, critical thinking, analytical, organizational, and writing skills. Proficiency with MS Office software. Proficient in use of Electronic Health Record.
• Valid Registered Nurse (RN) license from a compact state
• Clinical Documentation Specialist (CDS), preferred
• Certified Documentation Improvement Practitioner from the American Health Management Association, preferred

We believe in the healing power of humanity and serving the common good through our dedicated work and shared mission to celebrate humankindness. 

CommonSpirit Mountain Region’s Corporate Service Center is headquartered in Centennial, CO where our corporate leaders and centralized teams support our hospitals, clinics and people – including marketing, human resources, employee benefits, finance, billing, talent acquisition/development, payor relations, IT, project management, community benefit and more. Many of our centralized teams offer a remote work option which supports a healthy work-life balance while still providing a culture of collaboration and community where incredible people are doing incredible things every day. 

We believe investing in our employees lets them know they truly matter. Your Total Rewards package includes compensation, benefits, retirement, wellness, leave, and other programs. Designed with your well-being in mind, we offer: 

• Several Medical, Dental, & Vision options.
• Spending Accounts including a Dependent Care FSA that can include an employer contribution
• Retirement account options with a generous employer match
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Student Loan Forgiveness, and so much more!

View more on our benefits HERE.

$37.76 - $60.47 / hour