[Hiring] Clinical Documentation Integrity Educator @R1 RCM

Role Description

As our Clinical Documentation Integrity Educator , you will help strengthen documentation quality, coding accuracy, and CDI performance by providing education, coaching, and process improvement support across inpatient acute care settings.

Every day you will:

• Develop and deliver CDI education for Clinical Documentation Specialists and physicians.
• Analyze documentation and coding trends to identify opportunities for quality improvement.
• Partner with CDI, coding, compliance, and operational leaders to drive documentation excellence and workflow standardization.

Here's what you'll experience working as an Educator, Clinical Documentation Integrity:

• Create and deliver engaging education programs on clinical documentation, coding guidelines, regulatory standards, and CDI best practices.
• Provide coaching, mentoring, onboarding, and ongoing development for CDI staff and physicians.
• Monitor CDI metrics, conduct audits, analyze trends, and recommend performance improvement initiatives.
• Serve as a subject matter expert (SME) on clinical documentation integrity, documentation guidelines, and CDI-related technology platforms.
• Collaborate with coding, compliance, and operational teams to ensure documentation supports accurate coding, reimbursement, and regulatory compliance.
• Lead or support cross-functional projects, system implementations, workflow enhancements, and documentation standardization initiatives.
• Improve provider documentation and query practices to accurately reflect patient severity, quality outcomes, and care delivered.
• Support day-to-day CDI operations and assist with complex documentation scenarios as business needs require.

Qualifications

• Active U.S. Registered Nurse (RN) license.
• Associate Degree in Nursing required; Bachelor's Degree in Nursing preferred.
• 3–5 years of inpatient acute care CDI and auditing experience.
• 3–5 years of clinical nursing experience in a medical-surgical, ICU, telemetry, or emergency department setting.
• Strong knowledge of CDI practices, ICD-10, MS-DRG/APR-DRG methodology, and healthcare documentation standards.
• Experience presenting, coaching, educating, and influencing multidisciplinary teams.
• Excellent analytical, communication, and collaboration skills.

Preferred Skills

• Additional two years of inpatient, acute CDI Educator experience.
• Experience with Epic, Meditech, Cerner, Iodine, Optum, SmarterDx, Nuance CDE One, 3M 360, or similar technology platforms.

Compensation and Benefits

• Base pay range is $50,640.00 - $137,481.25 per year.
• Eligible to participate in our annual bonus plan at a target of 10.00%.
• Competitive benefits package.