All Episodes
Off the Record with Brian Murphy — 96 episodes
Who Owns Sepsis? The Battle to Define a Deadly Condition
Lessons from loss: A look from the inside of value-based care with Rose Bernards
Chronic Conditions, Clinical Outcomes, and Risk Adjustment’s True North: Baylor Scott and White’s OP CDI story
Beyond the Query: Cheryl Ericson and the case for clinical judgment in CDI (and life)
Sharpies and stage lights: MUSC’s Tracy Ferro on outpatient CDI origins
Different Minds, Extraordinary Strengths: The UC Davis Coding Internship Story
The Next Chapter: Faisal Hussain on change, creativity, family, and finding balance
Medical Record Maestro: Reimagining CDI in the Age of AI and the Longitudinal Record
The Downgrade Era: How Payers Are Changing the Game with (My) Richelle Marting
ChatGPT to Chart Review: AI use cases in the mid-revenue cycle and beyond
Beyond the Dashboard: Tiara Minor on Mentorship and Meaningful CDI Leadership
Risk Adjustment Reality Check: What’s Working—and What Isn’t
A reckoning for Medicare Advantage: Inside the Kaiser case with Mary Inman and Liz Soltan
From Encephalopathy to Edema: Talking chart review with Dr. Tarman Aziz
From Risk to Revenue Clarity: How One Health System Transformed OP CDI Performance
Closing out 2025 with its biggest story: Artificial intelligence
Outpatient OG: Amy Campbell on Pre-Visit Reviews, Pet Peeves, and People Management
From Resistance to Results: Provider engagement from the front lines
Coaching Clinicians, Convincing Crowds: Susanna Baddiel on Delivering Impactful Presentations
Documentation with a Pulse: Erin Kreider on ethics, CDI advocacy, and ambient listening
The ROI of Outpatient CDI
Retiring, But Not Quietly: Fran Jurcak on Tech, Tenacity, and CDI Truths
Rethinking Rankings: A Smarter Approach to Hospital Quality with Cheryl Manchenton
From NYU to TEDx: Chris Petrilli on Tech, Trust, and the Future of Healthcare
From Coding to Cabo: Following your bliss with Melanie Kiss, travel entrepreneur
Code Red: Aligning Risk Adjustment with CMS’s New Audit Mandate
Anybody Listening? Ambient AI and the Future of Documentation with Dr. David Canes
Rising from ruin and talking telehealth, SDOH with Keisha Wilson
An urgent issue: How admit type can skew quality metrics
Work-Life Wins with A.J. Hegg: New Essentia Health physician advisor program balances UM, CDI, ROI, and a healthy culture
Transcription to Trailblazer: Glenda Bocskovits’ outpatient CDI journey
Mission-Driven Medicine: Dr. Pablo Buitron de la Vega’s SDOH crusade, from capture to care
Cracking the Code: Victoria Vo’s Path to Entrepreneur, Social Media Stardom
One More Round: Sheila Duhon’s Unexpected Return to CDI Leadership
Codes, Coverage & Capitol Hill: Fighting for CAR-T and other cell and gene therapies with Jugna Shah
Qui Tam Confidential: An Insider’s Look at Whistleblowing with Mary Inman
Legal Limits: What Medicare Advantage must cover (and how it often doesn’t) with Richelle Marting
Top 5 lessons learned in a year of Off the Record
Fall reflections: Nicole Fox on career evolution, saboteurs, and fulfillment
Empathy meets AI: Rhoda Chism on Human-Machine Harmony in CDI
Living in Denial(s) with Karen Elmore, BJC Healthcare
Revka Stearns: Eight months later (and wiser)—Part 2 of 2
Revka Stearns: Eight months later (and wiser)—Part 1 of 2
Tonya Motsinger: Surviving and thriving in an evolving CDI landscape
Bridging divides: Leif Laframboise on merging the clinical and financial through data
Moving up and leaving behind: Robin Jones on growing into leadership
Entrepreneurial aspirations
Origin stories
Calling card for success: Keisha Wilson on entrepreneurialism and telehealth
Getting comfortable with risk: A conversation with Crystal May
Registry Revelations: A look inside the trauma registrar profession with Stefanie Arp
Clinical (and career) validation: Richelle Marting on legal aspects of HIM, CDI
Back to documentation school: Lessons from CDI educator Kalee Vincent
Decoding Sepsis: A Clinical Nurse Specialist’s Frontline Perspective
Clinical Clarity: Navigating Problem Lists and Defensible Narratives with Dr. Trey LaCharite’
Rx for rural community health: CDI on a shoestring with Jennifer Cummins
Burd(a)’s eye on Medicare Advantage: What does the future hold?
Malnutrition deep dive: A conversation with ECU Health’s Ashley Strickland
CDI finish line: Lynne Spryszak on Patient Care and Professional Purpose
The music of change: Meet newly minted medical coder Revka Stearns
Keeping credentials (and your career) current, with the Medical Coding Geek
New Year, New Goals with Nicole Fox, Cooper University Health Care’s Medical Director of CDI
2023 in review: Recapping the year in the mid-revenue cycle
Coding in the AI Era: Dr. Harvey Castro’s deep dive into transformative technologies
Talking tech, CAPD with Intermountain Health’s Kory Anderson
The art of defense: Legal lessons from an OIG audit of severe malnutrition
Breathing life into pediatric CDI: Meet Sandra Love
A clinical vision of risk adjustment: Meet Katie McLaughlin
A win for clinical truth: How Vaughn Matacale and Vidant prevailed against the OIG
Don’t hate on hospitals: Navigating the complexities of healthcare reimbursement with Jugna Shah, MPH
Finding your Ikigai: Nicole Fox on the art of balance amidst trauma
The obstacle is the way: The art of overcoming challenges with WVU’s Dawn Diven
Remote but closer to home than ever: Kim Higgins on the rewards of at-home CDI work
Walking the leadership tightrope: Meet Sheri Blanchard, Senior Director CDE, Orlando Health
A first year for the record books: Catching up with Wellstar’s new Executive Director of CDI
Lighting a CDI fire with Tom Brazelton, CDI medical director UW Health
Antarctic Anecdotes: The real-life adventure of ex-CDI physician advisor Howard Rodenberg
Back from ACDIS, talking value-based care and outpatient CDI with Jason Jobes
Payer perspective: A conversation with Colleen Gianatasio
CDI-ing like its 1999: A conversation with Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist director Tamara Hicks
Legal eagle: Healthcare denials through the eyes of Sarah Mendiola
Banner Health’s Jami Woebkenberg: Managing the constant changes of modern healthcare delivery
What Would Nick Do? On building relationships and rebuilding a life, with Mike Behringer
Boston strong: Climbing the U.S. News and World Report Best Hospitals rankings with CDI Director Deb Jones
Always learning, always growing: Meet Keisha Downes, CDI Director, Tufts Medicine
An EPIC discussion with Chris Petrilli, MD: Talking CDI, COVID, AI, and more
“You need to have a vision”: A conversation with Adelaide LaRosa, VP of HIM, CDI, EMPI, and DRG Appeals, Catholic Health
2022 in review, 2023 look ahead—and a whole lot in between
Little-known profession, big organizational impact: Ren Garcia on the ins-and-outs of a career in cancer registry
RN and HIM can get along, after all: Meet Rebecca McDade and Andrea Smith
Hospitalist, family man, CDI guru of MedTwitter... Meet Robert Oubre, MD
A football mindset, delivered with a nurses’ caring: Meet Robin Jones, Executive Director of Clinical Excellence, AdventHealth
"I like unique. Tell me something I don't know." Meet Tracy Boldt, director of CDI and UM at Essentia Health
From meeting planner to medical coder ... meet UC Davis' star director of CDI and coding, Tami McMasters Gomez
“To be a good leader you have to get your hands dirty”: Meet Angie Comfort, LifePoint Health
CDI, denials, UM, and case management, under one roof? No problem. Meet Susan Fantin