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Job Summary

The HIIM Data Integrity Analyst is responsible for reviewing medical records for completeness, timeliness, and accuracy, ensuring compliance with Medical Staff Bylaws, Medical Staff Rules and Regulations, The Joint Commission (TJC) or other accrediting bodies' standards, the Medicare Conditions of Participation for Hospitals, and other regulatory requirements upon patient discharge. The HIIM Analyst—Validation (or validator) ensures that medical record documents and forms are properly identified and indexed in the EHR. The validator verifies that all documents are authenticated before the record is considered complete. This review identifies whether all required documentation is present and that all entries are properly authenticated. The HIIM Analyst assigns deficiencies to the responsible provider(s) for timely completion and performs re-analysis to ensure deficiencies are accurately addressed by the assigned provider and removed as necessary.

Essential Functions

+ Analyzes and assigns chart deficiencies to the appropriate provider based on policy/procedure and state/federal and accreditation agencies requirements.

+ Indexes all scanned documentation within the medical record to the appropriate facility, patient and document type.

+ Ensures the integrity of the medical record.

+ Actively manages various analysis-specific work queues and validation queues to ensure meeting standard turn around times.

+ Assists with Cerner Batch Indexing (Cer Batch).

+ Maintains Inbound Summary Transition of Care (TOC) accounts.

+ Monitors designated facility reports via Cerner Discern Analytics.

+ Adheres to established company standards/policies and system workflow guidelines to add and re-assign accounts (due to poor image quality, missing documents, etc) to appropriate work queues for processing or follow up by facility HIM leadership.

+ Meets or exceed corporate productivity and quality standards.

+ Performs other duties as assigned.

+ Complies with all policies and standards.

Qualifications

+ H.S. Diploma or GED required

+ 2-4 years Acute Care Medical Record Analysis required

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

+ Ability to decipher physician handwriting.

+ Demonstrates competency within 90 days of hire.

+ Must demonstrate proficiency in keyboarding, Microsoft Office applications, use of a mouse.

+ Possess strong written and verbal communication skills.

+ Excellent analytical and organizational skills

Equal Employment Opportunity

This organization does not discriminate in any way to deprive any person of employment opportunities or otherwise adversely affect the status of any employee because of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, genetic information, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, citizenship, veteran status, or military or uniformed services, in accordance with all applicable governmental laws and regulations. In addition, the facility complies with all applicable federal, state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment. This applies to all terms and conditions of employment including, but not limited to: hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training. If you are an applicant with a mental or physical disability who needs a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application or hiring process, contact the director of Human Resources at the facility to which you are seeking employment; Simply go to http://www.chs.net/serving-communities/locations/ to obtain the main telephone number of the facility and ask for Human Resources.