Terri Reid

Terri Reid, Senior Coding Quality Auditor
CCS, CCS-P, CDIP

Terri comes to Haugen group with 25+ years of health information management experience in coding, auditing and education. She spent a number of years volunteering as an EMT and working in an Emergency Department before she transitioned into a career coding ED records. It wasn’t long before she was trained to code SDS and IP records eventually using her clinical background to help pioneer a concurrent query program at a level I trauma facility in the northeast. With the implementation of ICD-10, she helped develop coding protocols as well as provide education to physicians on the impact of their documentation.

In addition to her HIM credentials (CDIP, CCS, CCS-P), Terri is also a certified paralegal and uses this knowledge to research and interpret various coding references in order to support coding advice. Her most frequently used auditing phrase is “There’s a Coding Clinic for that.” She is fascinated with new technology and loves to examine the etiology and impact of disease processes on the human body.

Born and raised in New York state, Terri has spent the last 5 years living just outside of Nashville, Tennessee. She has 2 daughters and 2 grandchildren and in her spare time she plays ice hockey.