Clinical Documentation Integrity Specialist

General Information

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Work Location: Los Angeles, CA, USA Onsite or Remote Fully Remote Work Schedule Monday - Friday, 6:00 AM - 3:00 PM PST Posted Date 07/22/2025 Salary Range: $95400 - 208300 Annually Employment Type 2 - Staff: Career Duration Indefinite Job # 26158

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

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Make a positive impact on one of the nation’s top health systems. Help ensure the efficient delivery of award-winning patient care. Take your professional expertise to the next level. UCan do all this and more at UCLA Health.

You will become a member of our highly successful of our Documentation Improvement Integrity team, including all modalities. This will involve daily reviews of high acuity patient records; continuously communicating with department staff; educating physicians, residents and mid-levels; and assisting with appropriate documentation strategies. Partnering with Medical Coding, Case Management and the Quality team, you will gather/analyze information to provide comprehensive medical record documentation that accurately reflects clinical treatment, decisions, and diagnoses. You will utilize your clinical expertise and coding knowledge to identify opportunities and ensure accuracy and completeness of clinical documentation. You will also leverage physician queries to improve documentation quality while providing key support to medical coders, case managers and Quality staff.

Salary Range: $92,600.00 - $202,200.00/year

Job Qualifications

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We’re seeking a detail-oriented, collaborative, self-directed individual with:

·       Bachelor’s degree in health-related field, preferred

·       A Registered Nurse (RN) license or MD diploma (or equivalent) required

·       Three or more years of Clinical Documentation Integrity experience required, preferably at an AMC

·       Knowledge of coding guidelines and coding clinic, required

·       Knowledge of laws, rules and regulations regarding appropriate clinical documentation for Medicare, Medi-Cal, CCS etc.

·       Strong leadership, supervisory, and training skills

·       Excellent critical thinking abilities

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