Manager CDI & Inpatient Coding

The Manager of Inpatient Coding and Clinical Documentation Improvement (CDI) provides strategic and operational leadership to ensure accurate, complete, and compliant clinical documentation and coded data across inpatient services. This role oversees daily coding and CDI operations, establishes performance standards, and ensures alignment with regulatory requirements and organizational goals. The manager partners closely with physicians, nursing, revenue cycle, compliance, and informatics teams to drive documentation integrity, optimize reimbursement, reduce denials, and enhance the quality and reliability of clinical data. Serves as a critical dyad partner with the organizations CDI Physician Champion.

This position is responsible for leading staff development, education, and performance management; advancing physician engagement and documentation improvement efforts; and leveraging data analytics to monitor key metrics such as coding quality, case mix index, and query effectiveness. The manager ensures adherence to federal and payer requirements, supports audit readiness, and leads continuous improvement initiatives that strengthen both financial outcomes and clinical data integrity across the organization.

About Us:

Valley Children’s Healthcare – one of the largest pediatric healthcare networks in the nation – provides Central California’s only high-quality, comprehensive care exclusively for children, from before birth to young adulthood. With more than 670 physicians and 3,500 staff, Valley Children’s delivers high-quality, comprehensive care to more than 1.3 million children in our service area. Our network offers highly specialized medical and surgical services to care for children with conditions ranging from common to the highly complex at our 358-bed stand-alone children’s hospital that includes 28 regional NICU beds. Our family-centered, pediatric services extend from a leading pediatric cancer and blood disorders center home on the West Coast, and a pediatric heart center known for its expertise and pioneering treatments, to a Regional Level IV neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), the highest level referral center between Los Angeles and the Bay Area. We participate in community initiatives, we support community efforts, we get involved where we can do the most good.

Education

• Bachelors Degree - 4 year Nursing, Health Information Management, or related health care area (required)

Licenses and Certifications

• CCS - Certified Coding Specialist - AHIMA - American Health Information Management Association (required)
• CDIP - Clinical Documentation Integrity Practitioner - AHIMA - American Health Information Management Association (required) Or
• CCDS - Certified Clinical Documentation Specialist - ACDIS - Association of Clinical Documentation Integrity Specialists (required)
• RHIT - Registered Health Information Technician - AHIMA - American Health Information Management Association (preferred) Or
• RHIA - Registered Health Information Administrator - AHIMA - American Health Information Management Association (preferred)

Work Experience

• Minimum five (5) years Related work experience (preferred)
• Minimum five (5) years Management experience (preferred)

Skills and Abilities

• Experience implementing a hospital clinical documentation improvement program is preferred.

Benefits:

• Relocation Assistance Available