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Responsibilities

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About Us :

Creating Health and Harmony, Southwest Healthcare is a comprehensive network of care with convenient hospital and ambulatory care / outpatient locations here to serve the Southern California community. With over 7,000 passionate providers and healthcare employees, our shared goal is to provide convenient access to a wide range of healthcare services in a way that benefits you, your family, and the entire community.

Job Summary :

Southwest Healthcare is seeking a Full-Time RN Clinical Documentation Integrity Specialist for our Corona Regional Medical Center location. This position offers a Hybrid / work from home option and provides clinically based concurrent and retrospective review of inpatient medical records to evaluate the utilization and documentation of acute care services. Duties include but not limited to :

• Providing clinically based concurrent and retrospective review of inpatient medical records to evaluate the utilization and documentation of acute care services.Responsible for improving the overall quality and completeness of clinical documentation.
• Promotes a partnership between the concurrent clinical reviews, medical record coders, and physicians to improve documentation and reimbursement.
• Facilitates clarification and specificity to clinical documentation through appropriate interaction with physicians, advocating for appropriate reimbursement.
• Responsible for reviewing medical records to identify payer population as documented upon admission and throughout the hospitalization.
• Analyzes status of patient, current treatment plan, past medical history and identified possible gaps in physician documentation.
• Supports the accuracy and completeness of the clinical information used for measuring and reporting physician and hospital outcomes to reflect the patient’s true severity of illness, intensity of care, and risk of mortality.
• May work a hybrid schedule. 3 days onsite required.

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Benefit Highlights :

Southwest Healthcare is owned and operated by subsidiaries of , a King of Prussia, PA-based company, one of the nation’s largest and most respected providers of hospital and healthcare services, Universal Health Services, Inc. (NYSE : UHS) has built an impressive record of achievement and performance, growing since its inception into a Fortune 500 corporation. Headquartered in King of Prussia, PA, UHS has 99,000 employees. Through its subsidiaries, UHS operates 28 acute care hospitals, 331 behavioral health facilities, 60 outpatient and other facilities in 39 U.S. States, Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico and the United Kingdom.

EEO Statement :

All UHS subsidiaries are committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants and teammates. UHS subsidiaries are equal opportunity employers and as such, openly support and fully commit to recruitment, selection, placement, promotion and compensation of individuals without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), genetic information, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

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