Sandy Routhier

Sandra Routhier (Sandy) is a senior vice president of DRG Validation (DRGV) auditing services at R1 RCM. With more than 35 years of experience, she specializes in health information management (HIM), inpatient coding, clinical documentation improvement (CDI), medical record documentation requirements and regulatory and accreditation requirements.

Sandy worked in acute care hospitals for the first 25 years of her career in a variety of roles including inpatient coding, CDI specialist, HIM director, revenue cycle director and information systems director.

In her current role as senior vice president of DRG Validation, she plays a key role in the development and maintenance of the rules engine and auditing process. DRGV provides a unique full-coverage software and auditing solution to assure the accuracy of coding and documentation on inpatient cases.