Patricia A King, CHDS, CHDP, AHDI-F

HIM - Document Integrity Manager

Tucson Medical Center

Patt King, CHDS, CHDP, AHDI-F, is the current AHDI President for the 2023-2024 year. She has been the manager of a team of healthcare documentation specialists at Tucson Medical Center (TMC) in Tucson, Arizona, for the past 11 years. Patt is also a former AHDI President. Most recently, she co-chaired the Best Practices Task Force that created AHDI’s new Healthcare Documentation Integrity Auditing (HDIA) Implementation Best Practices Guide. She has also served as a lead or co-lead on several other AHDI projects over the years. Patt’s team at TMC worked in traditional medical transcription for many years then transitioned to healthcare documentation integrity auditing for both acute care and radiology in 2019. This forward-thinking team is now transitioning to pre-services medical necessity analysis in which they will use their valuable skills as HDSs on behalf of TMC’s Revenue Cycle to reduce insurance payor denials.