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Dawson Ballard, Jr., CPC, CCS-P, is a coding auditor for Take Care Health Systems in Nashville, TN. He has 5 plus years experience in coding auditing and reimbursement. He is a member of the American Academy of Professional Coders and the American Health Information Management Association. He serves as the facilitator of the Physician's Chart Auditing/Coding Auditing and the Occupational Health/Worker's Comp Communities of Practice on the AHIMA Web site, and he is a member of the Ingenix Coding and Referential Advisory Board.

Jo Ann Baker, CCS, CPC-H, CPC, CHCC, is employed by CodeRyte Inc., located in Bethesda, MD; in addition she is an adjunct instructor at Morris County Community College. She has more than 25 years in acute care hospital inpatient, outpatient and physician office coding and is an experienced presenter at the American Academy of Professional Coders (AAPC) national convention and AAPC local Chapters. Jo Ann is a past AAPC advisory board member and Essex county Local Chapter president. She holds an AA in Social Science and is an approved AAPC PMCC instructor with professional affiliations and credentials with the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA), AAPC and Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA), certified as a compliance consultant.

Arlene Baril, MS, RHIA, is president, Baril & Associates Healthcare Consulting. She has more than 27 years of experience specializing in APC auditing and rebilling services, software development, charge description master reviews, inpatient DRG and outpatient HIM coding assessments, physician practice coding, and HIM operations. She is a member of AHIMA, TxHIMA and Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA).

Christina Benjamin, MA, RHIA, CCS, CCS-P, is an independent coding and education consultant and also serves in various roles with a variety of organizations and entities. She is an active student member of AHIMA and serves as an adviser and consultant to coders and coding students nationwide. She is familiar with and has limited experience in a variety of coding and billing arenas and specialties including but not limited to: inpatient, outpatient surgery, E/M physician office, interventional radiology, long-term care and ambulance coding. She has also audited both inpatient and outpatient (ED and OPS) records in an acute care hospital setting. She authored many documents and articles including a two-part article on E/M coding and an interventional radiology match-up sheet.

Lisa L. Campbell, PhD, CCS-P, CCS, CPC, CPC-H, CMA, is president of Physician Practice Resources Inc. Throughout her career, she has refined her expertise in the areas of management, training, consulting, auditing, medical assisting, medical billing, and CPT and ICD-9-CM coding. She is a regular speaker for the coding community as well as other health care related organizations. She is an adjunct faculty member with Colorado Technical University, Devry University, Davenport University and Rasmussen College. She holds professional memberships with AHIMA, the American Academy of Professional Coders (AAPC) and the American Association of Medical Assistants (AAMA).

Rebecca Campbell, MBA, RHIA, is currently employed with HealthPort Technologies, LLC, Alpharetta, GA, as a member of the compliance team and a senior coding consultant. She has been involved in the business of HIM for 27 years as HIM director, coding supervisor, AFMC (Arkansas Foundation for Medical Care - PRO) supervisor, outsource coder, adjunct instructor for the School of Business at Henderson State University, Arkadelphia, AR, and adjunct instructor for the HIT program at National Park Community College, Hot Springs, AR.

Connie Coleman, LPN, CPC, ACA, holds the position of president at Pyramed Inc. and is a nationally recognized public speaker on health care billing. She has more than 20 years experience in the health care environment with an extensive background in health care fraud investigations and litigation. She has assisted or served as a coding expert and adviser for claims professionals and health care practitioners as well as the Florida Senate, Federal Bureau of Investigation, National Insurance Crime Bureau, International Association of Special Investigators, Department of Justice, Internal Revenue Service, as well as State and Federal Prosecutors.

Cindy Doss, CCS, is manager of coding compliance with HealthPort. She brings to HealthPort more than 22 years of experience in HIM. Throughout her extensive career, her primary areas of focus have been inpatient, outpatient and ER coding, as well as auditing, In addition, Cindy served as the remote coding operational director, overseeing all remote coding employees in their daily work and education. She is a member of AHIMA and Arkansas Health Information Management Association.

Christine Goans, CCS-P, is the project manager for TCAssociates for all the VA contracts. She is also a remote coder, auditor and educator. She has more than 25 years' experience in acute care inpatient, outpatient, VA, DOD and physician office coding. Some of the specialties she has experience with are radiology, pathology, orthopedics, plastics, anesthesia/pain management, ambulance, neurology, ambulatory surgery and family medicine. 

Amy Hodges, CPC, CPC-I, is director of content development for Bloodhound Technologies, an ASP-based claims editing and analytics provider. She has more than 13 years of health care experience with extensive background in fraud detection and clinical editing, and has been a certified professional coder since 1999 and a certified professional coding instructor with the AAPC since 2008.

Glenn Krauss, RHIA, CCS, CCS-P, is revenue systems coordinator at Mercy Health System in Janesville, WI. He has more than 14 years of experience in the health care industry in numerous health care systems in various staff positions such as practicing coder, hospital management representative and consultant. He also has extensive experience in teaching physiology, surgical procedures, the rationale of therapeutic treatments with ICD-9-CM and CPT coding, and complex medical and billing issues to help with both quality issues and reimbursement.

Denae M. Merrill, CPC, is a coder, auditor and educator for hospital employed physicians. She began her coding and medical billing career nearly 10 years ago in pulmonology and more recently began work in cardiology, neurosurgery and family medicine. Denae is currently the President-Elect for the Midland Bay Saginaw (MBS) Chapter of the AAPC in Michigan. She presented at the AAPC National Conference in April and is a contributor to the AAPC Coding Edge magazine. Denae is also a National Advisory Board Member for Pulmonology Coding Alert and contributor to ADVANCE.                                                                       

Janie Miller, RHIT, CCS, is the assistant director of HIM, coding compliance coordinator and revenue cycle team chair at Central Peninsula General Hospital. She has 11 years of experience in the health care industry and has worked in various areas such and SNF, eye specialtyclinic, multi-specialty physicians' office and acute care hospital.  Janie is an active member of AHIMA and also serves as a mentor for HIM and coding students. She also serves on the Coding Community Council and the Classification Practice Council of AHIMA. She holds an AA in HIM. 

Mary Mills, RHIT, CCS, is the president of Documentation Solutions,LLC, a corporate compliance consulting firm that focuses on physician documentation and coding quality. She has 21 years experience in health care as a documentation and coding quality auditor, DRG specialist, CMI manager, coding consultant and educator. Mary has implemented several successful Clinical Documentation Improvement Programs for health care delivery systems nationwide, which promotes seasoned coders to query physicians concurrently. She is the author of the "2007 DRG Workbook" that is updated yearly, and is also the author of several articles written for health care magazines. She was also an advisor to the Financial Leadership Council for the content in their book called "Enfranchising Physicians in Documentation" published by the Advisory Board Company in Washington, DC. Mary conducts workshops and seminars for coders, physicians, organizations and other health care personnel reinforcing documentation and coding guidelines mandated by the state. She is an active member of AHIMA and a previous board member for SEMHIMA.

Kathy Myrick, RHIT, CCS, is a senior business system analyst for Quadraed Corp. in the revenue cycle/product development division. She has more than 20 years of HIM experience encompassing hospital coding and reimbursement as a consultant, auditor, compliance specialist, management and non-management roles. She also is an adjunct instructor for ICD-9-CM coding for the HIT Program at San Diego Mesa Community College. Kathy maintains professional membership and participation in the AHIMA, California Health Information Association and San Diego Health Information Association.

Letitia Patterson, MPA, CPC, CCS-P, is the director of operations for the University of Chicago Medical Center - Department of Ophthalmology. In her position she is responsible for oversight of staff, practice excellence for three ophthalmology clinics, budgeting, development and maintenance of policies and procedures as well as quality improvement activities. She has 17 years of health care experience including managing multiple clinics, billing, coding, reimbursement and physician education. In addition, Letitia is currently an adjunct assistant professor at the Illinois College of Optometry and an adjunct instructor at Olive Harvey Junior College for the Coding and Billing program. She holds a Master's degree in Public Administration with a concentration in health care.

Stormy Roark, RHIA, CCS, is a coding supervisor at the National Coding Center with Conifer Health Solutions. Over the years she has held various positions in the HIM field such as coder, documentation specialist, quality improvement coordinator and HIM director. She is an active member of AHIMA and Louisiana Health Information Management Association. She serves as the facilitator of the documentation improvement community of practice on the AHIMA Web site as well as a member of the Action Community for E-HIM Excellence.

Wanda Sherman, CCS, CPC, CPC-H, CCS-P, is a coding manager for The Coding Source, Los Angeles. She has more than 35 years of professional experience in the health care industry and has worked in the areas of nursing, pharmacy, performance improvement, utilization review and HIM. She has more than 10 years' experience in coding, auditing and education for inpatient facility and outpatient physician services. She maintains membership in both AHIMA and AAPC.

June Wang, MS, RHIT, CCS, CCS-P, is corporate coding compliance coordinator at Parkview Health in Fort Wayne, IN. She has 15 years' experience in hospital inpatient and outpatient coding, DRG and APC audits, and Charge Description Master reviews. June has extensive knowledge of Medicare coverage determination and billing requirements. She has successfully worked with CMS to revise its Corrective Coding Initiative (CCI) edits and Local Coverage Determination (LCD) policies several times.  She is an active member of AHIMA. June holds a master's degree in health services administration. 

Lisa L. Withers, RHIT, CCS, is the cardiovascular and interventional radiology coding and compliance specialist for Providence St Peter Hospital. She has 14 years of experience in the HIM field. Prior to her current role she has been in the following roles at PSPH: ROI personnel, data clerk, coder (inpatient and outpatient), lead coder and APC/Chargemaster coordinator. In her current role she is specializing in CPT coding for the cardiac cath lab and interventional radiology procedures done in CT, US and the special procedure unit along with peripheral studies done in the cath lab. She also audits ICD-9 procedure coding assignment for cardiac cath and IR encounters. She is a current member of AHIMA and WSHIMA.