The ACDIS Podcast

Today’s guest is Cheryl Ericson, RN, MS, CCDS, CDIP, clinical program manager for Iodine Software in Charleston, South Carolina. The show is co-hosted by Laurie Prescott, RN, MSN, CCDS, CCDS-O, CDIP, CRC, CDI education director at HCPro/ACDIS in Middleton, Massachusetts. Featured solution: Today’s featured ACDIS solution is ACDIS Online: CDI Summer Retreat. A retreat is a place of privacy, safety,...

Today’s guest is Susan Richards, CPHQ, CCS, CPC, CRC, COMA, CPC-I, CDEO, CEMC, who served as the director of clinical documentation for Humana Medicare Advantage from 2020-2021. The show is co-hosted by Dawn Valdez, RN, LNC, CCDS, CDIP, a CDI education specialist at HCPro/ACDIS in Middleton, Massachusetts. Featured solution: Today’s featured ACDIS solution is the Live Virtual CDI Boot Camp®! The L...

Today’s guest is Brian Simpson, MS, RRT, CCDS, CDIP, CCS, CRC, CCDS-O, a CDI specialist at Penn Highlands Healthcare in DuBois, Pennsylvania. The show is co-hosted by Dawn Valdez, RN, LNC, CCDS, CDIP, a CDI education specialist at HCPro/ACDIS in Middleton, Massachusetts. Featured solution: Today’s featured ACDIS solution is the Live Virtual CDI Boot Camp®! The Live Virtual CDI Boot Camp is ACDIS’...

Today’s show is co-hosted by Dawn Valdez, RN, LNC, CCDS, CDIP, a CDI education specialist at HCPro/ACDIS in Middleton, Massachusetts. Featured solution: Today’s featured ACDIS solution is the Live Virtual CDI Boot Camp®! The Live Virtual CDI Boot Camp is ACDIS’ premier training for CDI specialists. Trusted by hundreds of CDI specialists as the go-to source for CDI education, this course defines th...

With special guest V. “Juggy” Jagannathan, PhD, researcher of artificial intelligence and computer science for 3M Health Information Systems. Today’s show is co-hosted by Sharme Brodie, RN, CCDS, CCDS-O, a CDI education specialist at HCPro/ACDIS in Middleton, Massachusetts. Today’s show is supported by 3M Health Information Systems. 3M Health Information Systems, now with M*Modal, delivers innovat...

With special guest Frank Levanduski, BBA, RHIT, CEMC, the manager of the documentation and coding education development and delivery teams, and Patty Vitasinski, RN, CCDS, the manager of CDI quality improvement for the Henry Ford Health System in Detroit, Michigan. Today’s show is co-hosted by Dawn Valdez, RN, LNC, CCDS, CDIP, a CDI education specialist at HCPro/ACDIS in Middleton, Massachusetts....

With special guest Deborah Jones, MSN, RN, CCDS, the director of CDI at Brigham & Women’s Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. Today’s show is co-hosted by Sharme Brodie, RN, CCDS, CCDS-O, a CDI education specialist at HCPro/ACDIS in Middleton, Massachusetts. If you’d like to view the Elixhauser comorbidity software information discussed in today’s show, click here. (https://bit.ly/3o1J6A7) Featured...

With special guest Cesar Limjoco, MD, the chief medical officer of T-Medicus LLC. Today’s show is co-hosted by Sharme Brodie, RN, CCDS, CCDS-O, a CDI education specialist at HCPro/ACDIS in Middleton, Massachusetts. The article Limjoco referenced on the show can be found here: http://ow.ly/le5A30rryQv Featured solution: Today’s featured ACDIS solution is the 2021 ACDIS Pocket Guide (https://bit.ly/...

With special guest Laura Stuber, RN, BSN, CCDS, CDI specialist at Gunderson Health System in LaCrosse, Wisconsin. Today’s show is co-hosted by Dawn Valdez, RN, LNC, CCDS, CDIP, a CDI education specialist at HCPro/ACDIS in Middleton, Massachusetts. Featured solution: Today’s featured ACDIS solution is the 2021 ACDIS Pocket Guide (https://bit.ly/2SfbVeO). The 2021 ACDIS Pocket Guide is your essentia...

With special guest Erica E. Remer, MD, FACEP, CCDS, the president of Erica Remer, MD, Inc. in Beachwood, Ohio. Today’s show is co-hosted by Sharme Brodie, RN, CCDS, CCDS-O, a CDI education specialist at HCPro/ACDIS in Middleton, Massachusetts. Featured solution: Today’s featured ACDIS solution is the 2021 ACDIS Pocket Guide (https://bit.ly/2SfbVeO). The 2021 ACDIS Pocket Guide is your essential CD...

With special guest Jessica Risner, BSN, RN, CCDS, the director of CDI at Banner Health in Phoenix, Arizona. Today’s show is co-hosted by Dawn Valdez, RN, LNC, CCDS, CDIP, a CDI education specialist at HCPro/ACDIS in Middleton, Massachusetts. Please note that today’s live podcast experienced some technical audio difficulties, forcing us to cut the program short a bit. The recording contains the ent...

With special guest Autumn Reiter, RN, BSN, CCDS, CCDS-O, CDIP, CCS, the director of CDI services for CorroHealth, based in Springfield, Missouri. Today’s show is co-hosted by Laurie Prescott, RN, MSN, CCDS, CCDS-O, CDIP, CRC, the CDI education director at HCPro/ACDIS in Middleton, Massachusetts. Featured solution: Today’s featured ACDIS solution is ACDIS Online: Uncovering Outpatient Opportunities...

With special guests James S. Kennedy, MD, CCS, CCDS, CDIP, president of CDIMD-Physician Champions, based in Nashville, Tennessee, and Paul R. Belton, RHIA, MHA, MBA, JD, LLM, the chief compliance and privacy office with Stanford Healthcare and Sharp Healthcare. Today’s show is co-hosted by Laurie Prescott, RN, MSN, CCDS, CCDS-O, CDIP, CRC, the CDI education director at HCPro/ACDIS in Middleton, Ma...

With special guest Jennifer Eaton, RN, MSN, CCDS, executive director of CDI services and education at Enjoin in Eads, Tennesseee. Today’s show is co-hosted by Sharme Brodie, RN, CCDS, CCDS-O, a CDI education specialist at HCPro/ACDIS in Middleton, Massachusetts. Featured solution: Today’s featured ACDIS solution is the 2021 ACDIS Pocket Guide (https://bit.ly/2SfbVeO). The 2021 ACDIS Pocket Guide i...

With special guest Angelica Naylor, MBA, BSN, RN, CCDS, a CDI consultant and manager with Trust Healthcare Consulting Services, a CorroHealth Company, in Plano, Texas. Today’s show is co-hosted by Carolyn Riel, the associate editor for ACDIS in Middleton, Massachusetts. Featured solution: Today’s featured ACDIS solution is the 2021 ACDIS Pocket Guide (https://bit.ly/2SfbVeO). The 2021 ACDIS Pocket...

With special guests Christopher Petrilli, MD, SFHM, an assistant professor for the department of medicine and the clinical lead of value-based management for NYU Langone Health in Manhattan, and Irina Zusman, RHIA, CCS, CCDS, the director of HIM, coding, and CDI initiatives for NYU Langone. Today’s show is co-hosted by Dawn Valdez, RN, LNC, CCDS, a CDI education specialist at HCPro/ACDIS in Middle...

With special guest Joseph Girardi, CGFM, CFR, an assistant regional inspector general for audit services with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector General, Office of Audit Services, and co-hosted by Dawn Valdez, RN, LNC, CCDS, a CDI education specialist at HCPro/ACDIS in Middleton, Massachusetts. Today’s show is supported by 3M Health Information Systems. 3M is com...

With special guest C. Dawn Diven, RN, BSN, CCDS, CDIP, CCDS-O, the system enterprise director of inpatient and outpatient CDI for West Virginia University Medicine in Morgantown, and co-hosted by Sharme Brodie, RN, CCDS, CCDS-O, a CDI education specialist at HCPro/ACDIS in Middleton, Massachusetts. Today’s show is supported by 3M Health Information Systems. 3M is committed to driving the CDI indus...

With special guest Kevin Friedman, MD, a pediatric and fetal cardiologist at Boston Children’s Hospital, and co-hosted by Sharme Brodie, RN, CCDS, CCDS-O, a CDI education specialist at HCPro/ACDIS in Middleton, Massachusetts. Featured solution: Today’s featured ACDIS solution is Virtual Education Curtain Call: Behind the Scenes of Star-Studded CDI Programs. (http://ow.ly/RvfK30r6p7Z) Virtual Educa...

With special guests Lara Faustino, RN, BSN, CCDS, a senior CDI specialist at Lifespan Corporate Services in Providence, Rhode Island, and Aimee Van Balen, RN, BSN, CCDS, a lead CDI specialist at Lifespan Corporate Services. Co-hosted by Melissa Varnavas, the associate editorial director for ACDIS in Middleton, Massachusetts. Featured solution: Today’s featured ACDIS solution is our new book, CDI a...

With special guests Deanne Wilk, BSN, RN, CCDS, CDIP, CCDS-O, CCS, manager of CDI, and Ashley Vahey, BSN, RN, CCDS, CDI team lead at Penn State Health in Hershey, Pennsylvania. Co-hosted by Dawn Valdez, RN, LNC, CCDS, a CDI education specialist for ACDIS/HCPro in Middleton, Massachusetts. Featured solution: Today’s featured ACDIS solution is our new book, CDI and Quality Reporting: How Healthcare...

With special guests Erica E. Remer, MD, FACEP, CCDS, president of Erica Remer, MD, Inc., in Beachwood, Ohio, and a member of the ACDIS Advisory Board. Co-hosted by Dawn Valdez, RN, LNC, CCDS, a CDI education specialist for ACDIS/HCPro in Middleton, Massachusetts. Featured solution: Today’s featured ACDIS solution are the ACDIS Clinical Documentation Integrity Boot Camps (http://ow.ly/XEVZ30qT8ct)....

With special guests Jennifer Cavagnac, CCDS, the assistant director of CDI at Baystate Health System in Springfield, Massachusetts, Nageshwar Jonnalagadda, MD, MPH, FACP, FHM, a hospitalist and physician advisor at Baystate Medical Center, Marisa MacClary, co-founder of Artifact Health, Inc. Co-hosted by Sharme Brodie, RN, CCDS, CCDS-O, a CDI education specialist for ACDIS/HCPro in Middleton, Mass...

With special guest William E. Haik, MD, FACCP, CDIP, director of DRG Review, Inc., and co-host Laurie L. Prescott, RN, MSN, CCDS, CCDS-O, CDIP, CRC, the CDI education director for ACDIS/HCPro in Middleton, Massachusetts. Featured solution: Practicing social distancing is a must during the COVID-19 outbreak. But that doesn’t mean education and networking must stop. In fact, they’re more important t...

With special guest Jugna Shah, MPH, CHRI, the president and founder of Nimitt Consulting, Inc., and co-host Dawn Valdez, RN, LNC, CCDS, the CDI education specialist for ACDIS/HCPro in Middleton, Massachusetts. Featured solution: Practicing social distancing is a must during the COVID-19 outbreak. But that doesn’t mean education and networking must stop. In fact, they’re more important than ever. P...