Facilitate clarification to clinical documentation in the medical record; through extensive concurrent reviews with interactions with physicians, nursing staff, other interdisciplinary team caregivers and health information management coding staff, which supports appropriate acuity, resource utilization, quality, severity of illness/risk of mortality (SOI/ROM) and reimbursement. Ensures that clinical severity captured for the level of service rendered to all patients with a DRG based Payor (i.e., Medicare, Medicaid, Commercial, etc.) is accurate. Supports timely, accurate and completed documentation of clinical information, used for measuring and reporting physician and medical center outcomes. On an ongoing basis, CDS will provide educational requirements on clinical documentation to all members of the interdisciplinary care team, while ensuring compliance with regulatory guidelines be maintained.