The ACDIS Podcast

With special guest Vicki Galyean, RN, BSN, CCDS, clinical documentation excellence (CDE) team leader, and Gina Fones-DiCrocco, MEd, CPC, CRCR, director of coding quality review and education at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. The show is co-hosted by Dawn Valdez, RN, LNC, CDIP, CCDS, a CDI education specialist for ACDIS/HCPro in Middleton, Massachusetts. In the...

With special guest Adelaide La Rosa, RN, BSN, CCDS, CHS vice president for HIM, CDI, DRG appeals, and EMPI for Catholic Health Services of Long Island, and co-hosted by Sharme Brodie, RN, CCDS, CCDS-O, a CDI education specialist for ACDIS/HCPro in Middleton, Massachusetts. In the news links: “Preeminent hospitals penalized over rates of patients’ injuries” from Kaiser Health News ACDIS update link...

With special guests Sharme Brodie, RN, CCDS, CCDS-O, CDI education specialist for ACDIS/HCPro in Middleton, Massachusetts, and Shannon McCall, RHIA, CPC, CCS, CCS-P, CPC-I, CCDS, CCDS-O, CEMC, CRC, director of coding and HIM for Simplify Compliance, ACDIS’ parent company. In the news links: Sepsis likely to blame for 20% of worldwide deaths, study shows ACDIS update links: CDI for Outpatient Boot...

With special guest Justin Satterfield, founder and president of Norwood Staffing Solutions. Co-hosted by Laurie Prescott, MSN, RN, CCDS, CCDS-O, CDIP, CRC, the CDI education director for ACDIS/HCPro in Middleton, Massachusetts. In the news links: AMA checklist for transition to E/M office visit changes ACDIS call for board & committee volunteers ACDIS membership survey Featured product: Today’s fe...

With special guest Cesar Limjoco, MD, the chief medical officer of T-Medicus in Las Vegas, Nevada. Co-hosted by Sharme Brodie, RN, CCDS, CCDS-O, a full-time instructor for the CDI Boot Camps and subject matter expert for ACDIS. In the news links: Risk Adjustment Data Validation (HHS-RADV) White Paper from CMS "RADV audits to intensify in 2020, OIG says," from CDI Strategies

This episode--part 3 of a 3-part clinical series, sponsored by 3M--covered common diagnosis questions sent in from listeners of the ACDIS Podcast. With special guest Dawn R. Valdez, RN, LNC, CDIP, CCDS, the CDI manager of education at Ardent Health Services in Nashville, Tennessee. Co-hosted by Sharme Brodie, RN, CCDS, AHIMA Approved ICD-10-CM/PCS Trainer, a full-time instructor for the CDI Boot C...

With special guest Tracy Boldt, RN, BSN, CCDS, CCDS-O, CDIP, manager of clinical documentation integrity for Essentia Health in Duluth, Minnesota. Co-hosted by Laurie Prescott, MSN, RN, CCDS, CDIP, CRC, the CDI Education Director for ACDIS in Middleton, MA. To read “How one ACO leveraged universal truths of value-based contracting for success" as featured on In the News, please visit the HFMA webs...

With special guest Analyn Dolopo-Simon, ACM, CCDS, the CDI Program Director for UCSD Health in San Diego, CA. Co-hosted by Melissa Varnavas, Associate Editorial Director for ACDIS. To view "CMS will pay hospitals $1.9 billion in bonuses for inpatient care" as reported on In the News, please visit the Modern Healthcare website: https://www.modernhealthcare.com/payment/cms-will-pay-hospitals-19-bill...

With special guest Laurie Prescott, MSN, RN, CCDS, CDIP, CRC, the CDI Education Director for ACDIS in Middleton, MA. She is the developer and lead instructor for the ACDIS boot camp line and an ACDIS subject matter expert. Prescott is a former CDI manager and a nursing manager with experience in med/surg, ICU, PACU, and endoscopy. She is also co-author of our upcoming indispensable CDI reference,...

With special guest Paul Evans, RHIA, CCDS, CCS, CCS-P, a clinical documentation integrity specialist with Sutter West Bay Area in San Francisco. Co-hosted by Laurie Prescott, MSN, RN, CCDS, CCDS-O, CDIP, CRC, the CDI education director for HCPro and ACDIS. Our thanks to 3M Health Information Systems for their support of the program, the first of a three-part clinical series. To download a copy of...

With special guests Haaris Ali, MD, CDIP, the regional director of CDI for Prospect Holdings, and Cesar Limjoco, MD, the chief medical officer of T-Medicus. Co-hosted by Laurie Prescott, MSN, RN, CCDS, CCDS-O, CDIP, CRC, the CDI education director for HCPro and ACDIS in Middleton, Massachusetts. To view CDC Tally of Vaping-Related Injuries Now at 805 (since revised upwards to 1,080, with 18 deaths...

With special guests Valerie A. Bica, RN, BSN, CPN, the lead CDI specialist at Nemours/Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children in Wilmington, Delaware, and Joan Oliver, MHA, BSN, RN, ACM, CCDS, a CDI specialist covering the cardiothoracic and CCU teams at Duke University Hospital in Durham, North Carolina. Co-hosted by Sharme Brodie, RN, CCDS, a full-time instructor for the CDI Boot Camps as well as...

With special guest Deanne Wilk, BSN, RN, CCDS, CCDS-O, CDIP, CCS, the manager of CDI for Penn State Health in Hershey, Pennsylvania. Co-hosted by Sharme Brodie, RN, CCDS, a full-time instructor for the CDI Boot Camps as well as a subject matter expert. To read "Tell Congress to pass the Improving Access to Medicare Coverage Act and close the 'observation status gap'" as featured on In the News, pl...

With special guests Yvonne Whitley RN, BSN, CPC, CRC, CDEO, CCDS-O, manager of the ambulatory CDI team at Novant Health in North Carolina, and Jessica M. Vaughn MSN, RN, CCDS, CCDS-O, CRC, the manager of outpatient clinical documentation excellence at Wake Forest Baptist Health, an academic organization in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Co-hosted by Melissa Varnavas, the associate editorial direct...

With special guest James Manz, MD, a consultant in spine and neurological surgery with the Mayo Clinic Health System in northwest Wisconsin. Co-hosted by Laurie Prescott, MSN, RN, CCDS, CCDS-O, CDIP, CRC, the CDI education director for ACDIS in Middleton, Massachusetts. To read a summary of the 2020 OPPS proposed rule and the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule proposed rule as discussed on In the New...

With special guest Dawn R. Valdez, RN, LNC, CDIP, CCDS, the CDI manager of education at Ardent Health Services in Nashville, Tennessee. Co-hosted by Laurie Prescott, MSN, RN, CCDS, CCDS-O, CDIP, CRC, the CDI education director for ACDIS in Middleton, Massachusetts. Click here to view the Medscape article ‘Big Three’ Diseases Account for Most Diagnostic Error Harm as featured on In the News. Learn...

With special guests Caryl Liptak, MSHAI, RHIA, system director of CDI and coding at Baptist Health System in Louisville, Kentucky, and Regene’ Collier, RN-BC, BSN, COS-C, HCS-D, the home health coding/CDI specialist manager at Baptist Health System. Co-hosted by Allen Frady, RN, BSN, CCDS, CCS, CDI education specialist for ACDIS in Middleton, Massachusetts. To read CEO outlines plan to save Hahnem...

With special guests Rhoda Chism, BSN, RN, CCDS, a CDI specialist at The Medical Center at Bowling Green, Kentucky, and Laura White, MHA, a performance improvement engineer at The Medical Center Health in Bowling Green, Kentucky. To view ACDIS' comments on the FY 2020 IPPS proposed rule as featured on In the News, please click here.

With special guest Kristi Fahy, RHIA, an account executive with DVS, a premier partner of Dolbey. Co-hosted by Sharme Brodie, RN, CCDS, a full-time instructor for the ACDIS CDI Boot Camps as well as a subject matter expert. To view the Forbes.com article “There are no accurate machine learning models, only agreeable ones” as covered on In the News, please click here. To view ACDIS' commentary to C...

With special guests Howard Rodenberg, MD, MPH, CCDS, physician advisor for CDI at Baptist Health in Jacksonville, Florida, and Candace Blankenship, RN, BSN, CCDS, CDI specialist at Mayo Clinic Florida in Jacksonville. Co-hosted by Allen Frady, RN, BSN, CCDS, CCS, CDI education specialist for ACDIS in Middleton, Massachusetts. To view a summary of proposed 2020 changes to the IPPS, click here. To v...

With special guest Adrienne Commeree, CPC, CPMA, CCS, CEMC, CPIP, a regulatory specialist for the HCPro Certified Coder Boot Camp® programs. She is an instructor with extensive knowledge of inpatient coding guidelines as well as E/M and auditing guidelines. Co-hosted by Laurie Prescott, MSN, RN, CCDS, CCDS-O, CDIP, CRC, the CDI education director for ACDIS in Middleton, Massachusetts. To read Phys...

With guest and co-host Allen Frady, RN, BSN, CCDS, CCS, CDI education specialist for ACDIS in Middleton, Massachusetts. Allen teaches clinical documentation improvement boot camps and serves as a subject matter expert. He is an accomplished consultant with a background in coding and documentation. To view CMS’ Innovation Center Announces Five New Transformative Models as featured on In the News, p...

With special guest Richard Pinson, MD, FACP, CCS, principal of Pinson and Tang in Chattanooga, TN, and co-author of the CDI Pocket Guide. Co-hosted by Laurie Prescott, MSN, RN, CCDS, CDIP, CRC, the CDI Education Director for ACDIS in Middleton, MA.  To read about the sweeping changes proposed by CMS in the 2020 IPPS proposed rule, or to comment, please click here. To read Pinson's answers to addit...

With special guest Howard Rodenberg, MD, MPH, CCDS, the Physician Advisor for Clinical Documentation Integrity at Baptist Health in Jacksonville, Florida. Co-hosted by Sharme Brodie, RN, CCDS, AHIMA Approved ICD-10-CM/PCS Trainer, a full-time instructor for the CDI Boot Camps and ACDIS subject matter expert. Click here to read More layoffs at Miami hospitals as patient admissions dwindle and opera...

With special guest Cassi L. Birnbaum, MS, RHIA, CPHQ, FAHIMA, director of HIM and revenue integrity for UC San Diego Health, where she provides enterprisewide leadership and strategic direction for HIM, coding, charge capture, clinical documentation, and revenue integrity. Co-hosted by Allen Frady, RN, BSN, CCDS, CCS, CDI Education Specialist for ACDIS.  To read Hospital revenue cycle trends to wa...