Tammi Nichole Baca

BS, BSN, RN, CCDS

Nichole Baca, BS, BSN, RN, CCDS, is a senior director of clinical documentation integrity at R1 RCM. In this role Nicole uses her strong clinical background to interpret, apply and educate hospital CDI staff, leaders and providers on the importance of documentation and nuances of coding guidelines.

A registered nurse, Nichole spent seven years working in a variety of intensive care units before finding her passion in clinical documentation improvement. When ICD-10 implementation began, she became her hospital’s ICD-10 physician educator, presenting documentation education to the service lines throughout her organization. As she moved into leadership roles, she developed CDI/Coding education for new provider orientation and was selected as a panelist on creating a hybrid remote CDI program for the ACDIS 2019 conference. She also authored an article on technology use in remote CDI that was published in the March/April 2019 ACDIS Journal.

Nichole holds a Bachelor of Science in cellular and molecular biology from the University of Washington and a Bachelor of Science in nursing from the University of New Mexico.