
20/06/2025
Outpatient Clinical Documentation Improvement (CDI) Specialist
Location: Hyderabad, India
Position Summary:
Seeking a detail-oriented CDI Specialist to ensure accuracy, compliance, and completeness in outpatient medical records. This role collaborates with providers and coding teams to enhance documentation quality, support reimbursement, and uphold regulatory standards.
Key Responsibilities:
Documentation Review: Conduct concurrent and retrospective reviews of outpatient medical records to ensure documentation accurately reflects the patient’s clinical condition, treatment, and services provided.
Provider Education: Collaborate with physicians, nurse practitioners, and other healthcare providers to educate them on documentation best practices, including specificity and completeness to support accurate coding and billing.
Query Process: Issue compliant, non-leading queries to providers to clarify ambiguous, incomplete, or conflicting documentation, ensuring alignment with ICD-10-CM, CPT, and Outpatient coding guidelines.
Coding Support: Work closely with coding and billing teams to ensure documentation supports appropriate code assignment, risk adjustment, and reimbursement.
Compliance: Ensure documentation meets regulatory requirements, including CMS, HIPAA, and other federal and state guidelines, to minimize audit risks.
Data Analysis: Monitor and analyze documentation trends, identifying opportunities for improvement in clinical documentation processes and provider education.
Quality Improvement: Participate in quality improvement initiatives to enhance patient outcomes, documentation accuracy, and organizational performance metrics.
Qualifications
Science Graduate/Postgraduate
5+ years of experience in CDI, coding, or outpatient healthcare
Preferred Certifications: CCDS, CDIP, CPC, CCS
Strong analytical and communication skills
Proficiency in EHR systems (Epic, Cerner
How to Apply
Please submit a resume and cover letter to recruiter@doctususa.com. Please include “Outpatient CDI Specialist Application” in the subject line.