Today’s guest is Dawn Valdez, RN, LNC, CDIP, CCDS, a CDI education specialist for ACDIS/HCPro, a Simplify Compliance brand, in Middleton, Massachusetts. Today’s show is a part of the “Conversations with Karla” series. In every episode of this series, ACDIS Editor and Product Coordinator Karla Accorto will be joined by a guest who’s behind one of our most popular and exciting ACDIS educational offerings to share their expertise.

Our intro and outro music for the ACDIS Podcast is “medianoche” by Dee Yan-Kay and our ad music is “Take Me Higher” by Jahzzar, both obtained from the Free Music Archive.

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ACDIS update:

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