Pennant

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Clinical Documentation Review Team Lead

Full TimeRemoteTeam 1,001-5,000Since 2016H1B No SponsorCompany SiteLinkedIn

Location

Alabama

Posted

13 days ago

Salary

Not specified

Associate Degree5 yrs expEnglish

Job Description

• Conduct detailed home health and hospice pre-billing reviews to support Portfolio partners and their agencies. • Identify discrepancies, missing information, and opportunities for documentation improvement. • Utilize information gathered to provide education and facilitate alterations to the HCHB documentation, and process improvements to prevent recurrence. • Direct agencies to use documentation data outcomes for QA improvements. • Ensure documentation accurately reflects the patient’s clinical status and the care provided. • Set up meetings with clinical leaders to provide education, highlight findings, and make documentation recommendations. • Stay current with practices in both home health and hospice fields and suggest educational and resource materials which would be beneficial to the staff. • Recommend new approaches to on-going continued improvements to policies, procedures, and documentation. • Identify trending issues and share them with the team and the clinical leaders. • Stay up to date with all federal, state, and local regulations, as well as organizational policies and procedures to ensure compliance. • Work within and be comfortable with HCHB, PDF-Xchange, Excel, and Smartsheet. • Consistently promote CAPLICO. • Serve as the first point of escalation for documentation review questions. • Provide real-time guidance on documentation standards, interpretation, and expectations. • Reinforce consistency in review methodology across all reviewers. • Hold team alignment meetings to discuss review findings and ensure standardization. • Support onboarding and mentoring of new documentation reviewers. • Identify training gaps and recommend targeted education. • Monitor review quality and provide constructive feedback to promote defensible documentation practices. • Track common documentation deficiencies and trends and share with leadership. • Escalate systemic issues to the Director with recommended solutions. • Assist with workload balance and prioritization when needed. • Monitor turnaround times and flag potential deadline risks. • Reinforce accountability while maintaining a positive and collaborative team culture.

Job Requirements

  • Registered Nurse or related licensure highly preferred.
  • Significant experience and knowledge of the Home Health and/or Hospice environment, typically gained by five or more years of industry-related experience.
  • Strong knowledge of Medicare and Medicaid regulations.
  • Demonstrated ability to interpret and apply CMS Conditions of Participation and Conditions of Payment.
  • Prior documentation review, audit, or compliance experience preferred.
  • Strong sense of autonomy and confidence when working independently while also functioning effectively as a team leader.
  • Demonstrated ability to mentor and guide peers while maintaining collaborative relationships.
  • Demonstrates initiative in researching and resolving issues.
  • Able to discern areas in need of continued improvement.
  • Detail and deadline oriented with the ability to prioritize and multitask.
  • Able to adapt to a fast-paced environment and learn and retain new or evolving information and procedures.
  • Able to collaborate with physicians and healthcare providers to clarify clinical documentation and obtain additional information when necessary.
  • Flexible and responsive to changing business needs.
  • Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Smartsheet).
  • Experience with HCHB required.

Benefits

  • Health insurance
  • 401(k) matching
  • Paid time off
  • Professional development opportunities

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