Clinical Documentation Specialist

Guidehouse • Washington, DC, US • published 2026-09-22 23:43:00.282943

Description

**Job Family****:** CDI Specialist **Travel Required****:** None **Clearance Required****:** None**What You Will Do****:*** The CDI Specialist is responsible for comprehensive secondary clinical chart reviews to identify potential missed opportunities for documentation clarification. Collaborates closely with Coders, Coding Educators, Coding Quality Auditors, Case managers, Quality Department and Providers to assure documentation is clinically appropriate, accurately reflects the severity of illness and risk of mortality for the patient and is reflective of current CMS or other regulatory standards. * Conducts daily, concurrent review of inpatient records on assigned unit(s) to ensure complete and accurate physician and or clinician documentation is present at the time of discharge for accurate, timely, and compliant coding. * Reviews daily admissions to assigned unit, perform initial code assignment for a working DRG and complete CDI software data entry for initial and follows up case reviews (or worksheet to include code and DRG assignment) and submit to Program Assistant. * Updates “working DRG” as documentation supports, or physician query answer supports a change in the DRG as...

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