The ACDIS Podcast

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...

With special guest Timothy N. Brundage, MD, CCDS, medical director of the Brundage Group and former ACDIS advisory board member, and co-host Sharme Brodie, RN, CCDS, CCDS-O, a 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,...

With special guest Christopher Petrilli, MD, SFHM, assistant professor for the department of medicine and the clinical lead of value-based management at NYU Langone Health in Manhattan, and co-host Dawn Valdez, RN, LNC, CDIP, CCDS, a CDI education specialist for ACDIS/HCPro in Middleton, Massachusetts. Featured solution: Practicing social distancing is a must during the COVID-19 outbreak. But that...

With special guest Deborah Jones, MSN, RN, the director of CDI at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, a large academic medical center affiliated with Harvard Medical school in Boston, and co-host Laurie L. Prescott, RN, MSN, CCDS, CCDS-O, CDIP, CRC, the CDI education director for ACDIS/HCPro in Middleton, Massachusetts. Resources mentioned during the show: U.S. News & World Report 2019-2020 Best Hospita...

With special guests James Fee, MD, CCS, CCDS, the chief medical officer at Enjoin in Eads, Tennesee, and Shannon Wyatt, a clinical informatics analyst II at Enjoin, and co-host Dawn Valdez, RN, LNC, CDIP, CCDS, a CDI education specialist for ACDIS/HCPro in Middleton, Massachusetts. ACDIS update link: The third and final case study in the ACDIS Advisory Board’s Provider Engagement Series

With special guest Cesar Limjoco, MD, the chief medical officer of T-Medicus LLC, and co-host Laurie L. Prescott, RN, MSN, CCDS, CCDS-O, CDIP, CRC, the CDI education director for ACDIS/HCPro in Middleton, Massachusetts. Resources mentioned during the show: “Secondary hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis and severe sepsis/system inflammatory response syndrome/multiorgan dysfunction syndrome/macrophag...

With special guests Angie Comfort, RHIA, CDIP, CCS, CCS-P, CICA, senior director of CDI and coding operations for LifePoint Health in Brentwood, Tennessee, and Dawn Valdez, RN, LNC, CDIP, CCDS, a CDI education specialist for ACDIS/HCPro in Middleton, Massachusetts. In the news links: COVID-19 ICD-10-CM code coming April 1 ACDIS update links: 2020 ACDIS conference postponement announcement Certific...

With special guests Kerry Seerkircher, RN, BSN, CCDS, CDIP, director of CDI at Northern Westchester Hospital in Mount Kisco, New York, Julie Foley, MSN, RN, CDIP, CCDS, director of documentation excellence at Ochsner Health System in New Orleans, Michelle Knuckles, RHIT, manager of inpatient coding and CDI at the University of Utah Health in Salt Lake City, and Julie Salomon, BSN, RN, 360e chief p...

With special guest Beth Wolf, MD, CPC, CCDS, medical director of HIM at Roper St. Francis Healthcare in Charleston, South Carolina. The show is co-hosted by Laurie Prescott, RN, MSN, CCDS, CCDS-O, CDIP, CRC, the CDI education director for ACDIS/HCPro in Middleton, Massachusetts. In the news links: “EMR nudge decreases inappropriate hospital c. difficile testing” from Healio ACDIS update links: 202...