Senior Consultant - Clinical Documentation Specialist

Senior Consultant - Healthcare Clinical Documentation Specialist

Our Deloitte Regulatory, Risk & Forensic team helps client leaders translate multifaceted risk and an evolving regulatory environment into defensible actions that strengthen, protect, and transform their organization.

Join our team and use advanced data, AI, and emerging technologies with industry insights to help clients bring clarity from complexity and accelerate their path to value creation.

Work you'll do

As a Senior Consultant in our Regulatory, Risk, & Forensic Healthcare Practice, you will have the opportunity to work on multiple projects leveraging your education and prior work experience to help our clients more confidently make decisions to drive performance.

You will help our clients embrace change, grow their business, accelerate performance, and navigate periods of crisis or controversy and emerge resilient.

Projects may be aligned to the following areas and include:


* Operational Improvement: For business process that include significant clinical documentation and regulatory requirements, you will improve efficiency and business outcomes by leverage process improvement, technology innovation and operating model evolution.


* Clinical Payments Optimization: Assisting clients by validating that payments for clinical healthcare services comply with regulatory, clinical based evidence and contractual requirements while also determining that payments are appropriate for the type and level of care provided.


* Strategic Risk: Helping clients to embrace their most significant regulatory, clinical documentation, and operational risks, by enabling senior health care executives to plan for, spot, assess, manage, and respond to those risks to either avoid harm or to embrace risks as opportunity.


* Regulatory Response: Supporting clients with their most pressing regulatory and operational challenges.

Helping them to identify, remediate, monitor, and manage enterprise risks and create value through implementing a compliant, resilient enterprise.

Includes helping clients manage and respond to internal and external investigations, regulatory concerns, financial concerns and other business controversy.

A Clinical Documentation Specialist (CDS) works to ensure accuracy and completeness of clinical documentation.

A CDS also identifies opportunities for accurate documentation in order to appropriately identify the severity and acuity of the patient.

A CDS:


* Is knowledgeable regarding clinical documentation standards and clinical indicators which drive reimbursement, MS-DRG, APR-DRG, PSIs, HACs, POA, Vizient, Elixhauser, public profiling, and risk adjustment


* Has strong interpersonal skills to collaborate with clinicians, physicians, NP/PAs, ancillary departments, Quality, Case Management, Finance, Revenue Cycle, and Coders


* Other skills include the ability to analyze, act and design action plans upon monthly and quarterly reports related to i...