Signet Health, a national acute rehabilitation management company is currently hiring for a full-time PPS Coordinator/Clinical Education Liaison for our acute inpatient rehabilitation program at Knox Community Hospital in Mount Vernon, Ohio.

This position offers a competitive compensation benefits package including market competitive salary and generous PTO.

Primary Responsibilities include:

• Coordinates the data collection on the Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility Patient Assessment Instrument (IRF-PAI) for completion and timely submission to CMS.
• Ensures evidence of supporting documentation.
• Provides clinical staff education to ensure compliance with CMS guidelines
• Coordinates all efforts for immediate issue resolution concerning GG scoring and rating
• Conducts ongoing review of IRF-PAI related data, and assists the Director to address action
• Provides guidance to rehab physicians and clinical team on capturing tier codes for appropriate reimbursement.
• Provides feedback to the team through audits on scoring, rating, and quality measures.
• Implements a schedule for every patient for timely completion of the IRF-PAI.
• Reports key metrics to the leadership team at daily team meetings.
• Works closely with HIM coding department to identify and document all applicable codes concurrently
• Routinely rounds on other hospital units to identify potential patients for admission to the rehab unit
• Performs a clinical assessment on patient-candidates for the rehab unit
• Communicates findings on patients to the Medical Director and the Inpatient Rehab director
• Our emphasis for this position is on high-functioning results in a challenging, fast-paced and extremely rewarding environment.

• Current Ohio state licensure in nursing (RN) is required.
• MDS RN highly preferred.
• Minimum of two years’ clinical experience in acute hospital, SNF, LTACH or rehab hospital.
• If no recent IRF-PPS experience, we will consider MDS-RUGs experience.
• Clinical assessment skills required.