Job Description

Job Description

Job Description

About Hopscotch Primary Care

At Hopscotch Primary Care, we believe great healthcare should be accessible to all people across all communities. Today, almost 20% of Americans live in a rural community, yet only 11% of physicians practice in those same communities. We are on a mission to transform healthcare in rural America. We provide high-quality primary care tailored to meet the needs of our patients through our robust care model and comprehensive care team, delivering care in our clinics, and across settings, and wrapping resources around the patients who need them most.

Our patients and the care teams who serve them sit at the center of everything we do at Hopscotch. Hopscotch Primary Care takes a team approach to serve patient needs and provide the best care possible. Our goal is to provide the care each of us would want for ourselves or for our family members, in the right setting, and at the right time.

Today, we are serving thousands of patients in our value-based care model and the number is growing every day. If you want to bring your experience, skill and passion to make a lasting impact in healthcare, we'd like to meet you.

The Clinical Documentation Specialist (CDS) supports all care teams across the Western North Carolina region in comprehensive and targeted chart reviews and chart preparation — to ultimately facilitate efficient and effective medical care for our patients. In addition, this role will partner with clinic leaders to indirectly support daily huddle and monthly clinical documentation review. The CDS is a critical hire to lead our passionate, skilled, and committed team at Hopscotch as we work to achieve our big and important mission.

This position is mostly remote but based in our Hudson office. Candidate should live within driving distance of this location.

Specific responsibilities for this role will include, but are not limited to:

• Chart preparation in advance of scheduled visits
• Full chart builds for new patients
• Access and review HIE/​EMRs to identify potential suspects based on historical chart data, test results, etc.
• Identify the need for Medical Records requests from payer data
• Identify and analyze opportunities for improving patient quality outcomes and cost of care
• Attend all relevant clinic meetings and participate as necessary
• Collaborate with population health team to understand how to improve provider documentation
• Keep up with clinic pace to ensure strong team performance
• Prepare for monthly review of clinical documentation with Providers
• Partner with Clinical Documentation SME and Lead Scribes on chart reviews and suspecting
• Monitor clinical documentation efforts and report out on trends, progress, opportunities, etc.
• Other duties, as assigned

You would be a great fit for this position if you have a minimum of years of experience in the medical field embedded into an interdisciplinary team, are highly motivated, and the following: 

• Proven experience and ability to build relationships with Providers
• Proficiency in tracking down and leveraging external resources, such as hospital records and payer data, to support retrospective and prospective accurate documentation
• Proven ability to learn new topics and apply the learning "on the job"
• Ability to succeed in a fast-paced, ever-changing environment
• Ease and expertise working with multiple technical systems, including Athenahealth, Foundry, and Excel
• Self-starter with a high degree of drive, initiative, and follow through
• Ability to develop, plan, and implement short and long term goals
• A flexible, positive attitude and a team-first approach to working
• Exceptional interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills
• Commitment to company vision

From a cultural perspective, you are: 

• Committed to excellence and bring a growth mindset to everything you do 
• Patient and mission-focused, with a passion for healthcare and service to the providers who deliver healthcare
• Agile, yet thoughtful and can work effectively in a fast-paced, dynamic environment 
• Constantly seeking ways to simplify and improve how things are done, bringing a positive attitude to challenges 
• Accountable, holding yourself and others to a high standard and seek to support and develop others 
• Willing to roll up your sleeves, bringing a high work ethic and strong collaboration skills to work effectively with people of all backgrounds 

At Hopscotch Primary Care, we embrace diversity, invest in a culture of inclusion and positivity and encourage all to apply to join our team. You will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.

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