Director Inpatient Clinical Documentation Integrity @ CentraCare

About the Role

Shape strategy, drive outcomes, and elevate care. This leadership role provides strategic and operational oversight of CentraCare's inpatient Clinical Documentation Integrity (CDI) program within the Population Health Division. You'll partner with clinical and operational leaders to advance documentation excellence, improve quality outcomes, support value-based care initiatives, and strengthen organizational performance. This is an opportunity to shape documentation strategy across a growing health system while collaborating with physician leaders and interdisciplinary teams to improve patient care, organizational quality, and financial sustainability.

Responsibilities

• Collaborates closely with physician leaders, quality, coding, finance, revenue cycle, case management, and operational leaders to ensure accurate, complete, and clinically supported documentation that reflects the severity of illness, risk of mortality, resource utilization, and quality of care delivered across the system.
• Accountable for advancing documentation strategies that positively influence publicly reported quality metrics, CMS and payer reimbursement methodologies, risk-adjusted outcomes, performance rankings, denials management, and organizational financial targets.
• Leverages analytics, clinical expertise, and industry best practices to drive strategic initiatives, monitor program performance, identify opportunities for improvement, and align CDI efforts with CentraCare’s strategic and operational priorities.
• Partners with the CDI Physician Champions to foster a culture of documentation excellence, clinical validity, continuous learning, and performance improvement while ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements and industry standards.
• Directs daily operations of the CDI program, including staffing, productivity, workflow optimization, technology utilization, compliance, and program performance.

Qualifications

• Minimum of a Bachelor's degree in Nursing is required; Master's in healthcare, nursing leadership, or health administration is preferred.
• Current Registered Nurse license with the State of Minnesota is required.
• CCDS – Certified Clinical Documentation Specialist through the Association of Clinical Documentation Integrity Specialists (ACDIS) is required.
• Minimum of 5+ years of experience in an acute care setting, with at least 3 years in clinical documentation integrity.
• Minimum of 2+ years of management experience (at a manager or director level).
• Ability to investigate, uncover the financial story, and focus on quality is essential.
• Strong critical thinking skills and understanding of storytelling are vital.

Schedule

• Full time | 80 hours every two weeks.
• Monday-Friday | 8:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
• Majority remote with occasional on-site meetings in St. Cloud, MN (approximately quarterly).

Pay

• Starting pay begins at $117,104 per year; exact wage determined by years of related experience.
• Salary range: $117,104 - $175,676.80 per year (based on a 1.0 FTE; reduced FTE will result in a prorated offer rate).

Benefits

• Medical and dental coverage.
• Paid time off (PTO).
• Retirement plans.
• Employee discounts and more.