Medical writer

• Initiate and perform concurrent documentation reviews of selected inpatient records to clarify conditions, diagnoses, and procedures where inadequate or conflicting documentation is suspected
• Meet or exceed defined performance standards for chart reviews and queries
• Educate physicians, clinicians, and other involved parties on complete and clear documentation of patient care, including complications and comorbidities
• Use queries, face-to-face communications, and educational programs and tools to improve documentation
• Serve as a resource linking ICD-10-CM coding guidelines and medical terminology to accurate final code assignment
• Follow coding and documentation guidelines to ensure physician and hospital compliance
• Maintain current coding knowledge and participate in educational programs and in-services
• Perform CDI Final Review/DRG Reconciliation and report DRG mismatch disagreements for secondary review
• Perform query reconciliation and monitor query outcomes for performance opportunities
• Support the Coding Department by communicating with physicians regarding open queries and acting as liaison between coding and physicians
• Participate in special projects involving physician documentation accuracy
• Precept and mentor new team members
• Collaborate with the Physician Advisor to identify physician documentation issues, query utilization, and education opportunities
• Maintain hospital and departmental policies, performance improvement, safety, environmental, infection control, confidentiality, and security standards
• Perform other related tasks and responsibilities as assigned

Medical writer jobs in Arizona

Clinical Documentation Specialist