Job Description
Position Overview United Health Services (UHS) is seeking a Clinical Documentation Improvement (CDI) Specialist – CDI Coder to support accurate, complete, and compliant clinical documentation across the inpatient setting. The Clinical Documentation Improvement (CDI) Specialist – CDI Coder collaborates with physicians, coders, and interdisciplinary care teams to ensure medical records accurately reflect patient acuity, severity of illness, risk of mortality, and services provided. Through concur…
8:00 AM
Coders start the day by pulling their assigned chart queue. In a hospital setting, an inpatient coder might work 15–25 charts per…
8:30 AM
Open the first chart. Read the operative report, discharge summary, and physician notes. Assign the principal diagnosis code (the…
10:30 AM
Encounter a complex chart — a patient with multiple comorbidities and a surgical complication. You spend extra time to capture eve…
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