Bridget began her coding career 23 years ago, after accepting a position with one of the largest third party carriers in the U.S. She has worked for various providers, hospitals, billing companies, attorneys and as an adjunct professor at a secondary learning institution. After teaching for 5 years, Bridget became the lead instructor over 5 instructors, and after 10 years became the program chair.
Brigette LaBar is a leader in revenue cycle management solutions. Previsously, Ms. LaBar was responsible for the revenue cycle operations at one of the largest independent clinical laboratory in California. She was instrumental in improving the performance of the revenue cycle operation and in transitioning a 90+ team member operation following an acquisition.
With over 17 years’ experience in the Health Information Management Industry, Catrena is a nationally recognized speaker and has published numerous articles in professional journals and magazines. She has served in many roles such as coding specialist, coding auditor, coding trainer, medical records technician, and coding manager. She is a former AAPC Local Chapter President, serves as a HIM student/new graduate mentor for multiple organizations and has served as an Advisory Committee member of a local college for several years.
With 30 plus years of healthcare experience, Cindy Dunn, has held numerous leadership positions in both small and large health care organizations, including primary care, multi-specialty and large integrated systems.
Dawn has 32 years’ experience in the Medical Industry. She is a Certified Professional Coder through AAPC since 1999. She is the Co-founder of the East Valley Chapter for AAPC in AZ.
Deborah is a nationally sought after leader in the industry and is passionate about assisting physicians and hospitals to improve their coding, documentation and business operations to maintain compliance and improve revenue.
As a health care consultant Jan has more than 35 years of experience in physician billing, reimbursement and compliance. In her role as a physician consultant, she has participated in physician coding and documentation reviews including OIG government PATH and Champus audits, designed and conducted physician coding seminars nationwide. Jan has also worked for several major health insurance payers in Wisconsin, was a coding advisor to the WPS Medicare Carrier Advisory Committee and served as the coding and reimbursement coordinator for a 37 provider, staff model HMO clinic.
Jeff has over 20 years experience in providing a full range of services to health care providers including auditing over 10,000 medical charts. He is a certified coding instructor specializing in coding, billing and documentation.
Jennie Hitchcock works with healthcare organizations to improve operational performance and, as a consequence, the bottom line. Her diverse skill set and extensive experience in the healthcare industry enable her to not only tackle the toughest problems facing healthcare organizations today, but also to take successful organizations to the next level. Jennie’s experience with non-physician practitioners in the physician practice setting includes recruiting and managing NPPs as well as the design of clinical workflows to maximize the positive impact that an NPP can have on a medical practice. In addition to her operational experience with NPPs she has also addressed the unique coding, compliance and regulatory challenges that have emerged as NPPs have become more prevalent in the United States.
As the Chief Legal and Compliance Officer for U.S. Foot and Ankle Specialists, Jennifer Searfoss, Esq. leads and manages the legal and compliance functions for the MidAtlantic group. Jennifer has always been passionate about helping physicians improve their compliance.