BJC HealthCare is seeking a Registered Nurse (RN) Quality Assurance for a nursing job in Saint Louis, Missouri.
Job Description & Requirements
- Specialty: Quality Assurance
- Discipline: RN
- Duration: Ongoing
- Employment Type: Staff
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Additional Information About the RoleBJC HealthCare is seeking an experienced CDI or DQC professional to join our team as a Clinical Documentation Quality Coordinator!
OverviewBarnes-Jewish Hospital at Washington University Medical Center is the largest hospital in Missouri and is ranked as one of the nation's top hospitals by U.S. News & World Report. Barnes-Jewish Hospital's staff is composed of full-time academic faculty and community physicians of Washington University School of Medicine, supported by a house staff of residents, interns, fellows and other medical professionals. Recognizing its excellence in nursing care, Barnes-Jewish Hospital was the first adult hospital in Missouri to be certified as a Magnet Hospital by the American Nurses Credentialing Center.
Preferred QualificationsRole Purpose
The Clinical Documentation Quality Coordinator (CDQC) is an advanced Clinical Documentation Specialist (CDS) at the enterprise level who uses extensive Clinical Documentation Improvement (CDI) experience to perform second level reviews of complex clinical cases and focused reviews of target case populations prior to final coding and billing across BJC. The CDQC responds to concurrent review requests from CDSs across the system, provides guidance to CDSs and coders to reconcile DRG mismatches, approves the withdrawal of queries, and escalates unanswered queries to Physician Champions. Drawing on his/her advanced CDI knowledge, the CDQC regularly analyzes data and reports to identify hospital/enterprise trends, areas of opportunity and provides education to facility-based CDSs and physicians based on this analysis. This position also performs focused second level reviews in mortality reviews, PSI reviews, and other identified projects indicated through data analysis.
Responsibilities
Reviews clinical documentation to facilitate the accurate representation of the severity of illness, expected risk of mortality, and complexity of care by improving the quality of the physician’s clinical documentation; identifies high impact cases and risk areas and performs second level reviews for additional opportunities on complex cases; performs post-discharge, pre-bill reviews of target case populations; queries physicians for additional documentation; validates the appropriateness of coder (CDC I, I & III) requests; responds to Coding Quality Coordinators (CQCs) requests for review from a clinical perspective; assists with query escalation to the Physician Champions.Demonstrates a thorough understanding of the MS-DRG system, CCs/MCCs, impact on quality, and CMI as well as ICD-10 coding systems and the guidelines related to clinical documentation improvement; serves as a resource for the Clinical Documentation Specialist (CDS) team; utilizes hospital coding code set, policies and procedures, federal and state coding reimbursement guidelines, and the Coding Clinic Guidelines to assign work; reviews patient records throughout hospitalization that have been identified as focus DRG by regulatory agencies; initiates physician interaction when abnormal ancillary test findings, ambiguous, missing or conflicting information is in the medical record.Leads provider engagement, relationship establishment and maintenance for shared accountability related to enterprise CDI and documentation improvement efforts, with all providers across the enterprise.Leads enterprise functional teams for educations, standard queries, standard process & technology, analytics, etc.; acts as a consultant to quality managers, management team, medical staff and health care staff regarding core measure performance and clinical documentation opportunities; leads and manages content development and presentation to key healthcare providers, education resulting from the analysis of clinical and financial information.Establishes enterprise standards; identifies enterprise trends, variances, deficiencies, and problems utilizing aggregated data and information as part of the integrated clinical documentation improvement program; conducts provider and group level CDI data trend analysis, identifies issues and proposes solutions to leadership.
Minimum Requirements
Education
Bachelor's Degree - Nursing
Experience
5-10 years
Preferred Requirements
Education
Master's Degree
Licenses & Certifications
Cert Clinical DocumentationCert Doc Improve Practitioner
Benefits and Legal StatementBJC Total Rewards
At BJC we’re committed to providing you and your family with benefits and resources to help you manage your physical, emotional, social and financial well-being.
- Comprehensive medical, dental, vison, life insurance, and legal services available first day of the month after hire date
- Disability insurance* paid for by BJC
- Pension Plan*/403(b) Plan funded by BJC
- 401(k) plan with BJC match
- Tuition Assistance available on first day
- BJC Institute for Learning and Development
- Health Care and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts
- Paid Time Off benefit combines vacation, sick days, holidays and personal time
- Adoption assistance
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The above information on this description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees in this position. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job. Equal Opportunity Employer
BJC HealthCare Job ID #84810. Posted job title: Documentation Quality Coord.
About BJC HealthCare
BJC HealthCare is one of the largest nonprofit health care organizations in the United States, delivering services to residents primarily in the greater St. Louis, southern Illinois and southeast Missouri regions. With net revenues of $6.3 billion and more than 30,000 employees, BJC serves patients and their families in urban, suburban and rural communities through its 14 hospitals and multiple community health locations. Services include inpatient and outpatient care, primary care, community health and wellness, workplace health, home health, community mental health, rehabilitation, long-term care and hospice.
BJC is the largest provider of charity care, unreimbursed care and community benefits in the state of Missouri. BJC and its hospitals and health service organizations provide $785.9 million annually in community benefit. That includes $410.6 million in charity care and other financial assistance to patients to ensure medical care regardless of their ability to pay. In addition, BJC provides additional community benefits through commitments to research, emergency preparedness, regional health care safety net services, health literacy, community outreach and community health programs and regional economic development.
