Today’s guest is Tami McMasters Gomez, MHL, BS-HIM, CCDS, CDIP, the director of coding and CDI services at the University of California Medical Center at Davis in Sacramento. Today’s show is a part of the “Leadership with Linnea” series. In every episode of this series, Associate Editorial Director Linnea Archibald be joined by one guest from the ACDIS Leadership Council ranks or a contributor from one of our ACDIS publications to discuss a topic relevant to leaders in the industry, whether or not they currently hold a traditional management title.

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:

Celebrate ACDIS’ 15th anniversary by sharing your memories and taking 15% off select ACDIS products all month! (http://ow.ly/kzaz50L3AH6 and http://ow.ly/jkov50L3AK1)

Read the newly released 2022 update of the ACDIS/AHIMA Guidelines for Achieving a Complaint Query Practice brief and send in your comments! (http://ow.ly/rZSu50L3ABa)

Respond to the 2022 CDI Salary Survey by October 31! (http://ow.ly/RTsh50L3APV)

Apply for the ACDIS CDI Scholarship program by November 30! (http://ow.ly/pwtG50L3ARZ)