Manager - Clinical Documentation Specialist
Recruiting for this role ends on 9/26/2026.
About the role
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.
The Enterprise Operations & Risk offering enables clients to achieve profitable growth and competitive advantage by optimizing "heart of the business" operations. We leverage deep domain expertise to extend enterprise resilience, agility and remediation. Our professionals address client needs which span the organization and impact strategy, operations, performance and reputation.
Responsibilities
- Lead client engagements that improve clinical documentation quality, support regulatory compliance, and strengthen reimbursement and quality outcomes.
- Lead clinical documentation improvement assessments, documentation reviews, and regulatory compliance analyses across inpatient service areas.
- Direct teams in evaluating medical records, diagnoses, treatments, and follow-up documentation to identify gaps, support coding accuracy, and improve reimbursement and quality outcomes.
- Develop and deliver education programs for physicians, clinical documentation improvement teams, health information management teams, and ancillary staff to improve documentation standards and adoption.
- Interpret clinical, coding, reimbursement, and quality analytics, and present benchmarks, trends, risks, and recommendations to physician leaders, executives, and other stakeholders.
- Manage client relationships, project workstreams, and team members to implement documentation improvement action plans, track progress, and report program outcomes.
Qualifications
Required:
- Bachelor's degree in nursing, medical degree, or physician assistant degree; current clinical licensure in the applicable discipline
- Certified Clinical Documentation Specialist (CCDS) or Clinical Documentation Improvement Practitioner (CDIP) certification
- 7+ years of experience in acute inpatient settings and clinical documentation improvement, utilization review, case management, health information management, coding, or physician advisor functions, including experience leading teams, workstreams, or client engagements
- Experience reviewing inpatient medical records and electronic medical record platforms (e.g., Epic, Cerner, etc.) to identify documentation gaps and support coding accuracy, regulatory compliance, and reimbursement
- Experience using clinical documentation, coding, and quality metrics, including Medicare Severity Diagnosis Related Groups (MS-DRG), All Patient Refined Diagnosis Related Groups (APR-DRG), patient safety indicators, hospital