Teams at MultiCare Health System

Improve clinical documentation quality and completeness by collaborating with physicians, nurses, coders, and caregivers to ensure accurate reimbursement and compliance. Facilitate documentation modifications, analyze clinical information, and support hospital-wide documentation initiatives.

Perform concurrent utilization management for a licensed facility: oversee admission and continued-stay reviews per CMS and UM criteria, ensure certifications/authorizations and complete documentation, serve as clinical resource for UM staff, troubleshoot complex cases, assign daily UM tasks, and liaise between patients, care teams, leadership, and payers to optimize reimbursement and compliance.

Supervise Data Quality Abstractors and Quality Metrics Coordinators to ensure timely, accurate, and compliant data collection and reporting. Manage large regulatory/quality datasets, lead training and process improvement, serve as subject-matter expert for assigned quality metrics programs, and support regulatory reporting and audit readiness.