Meet Your Expert
Leslie received her CPC from the American Academy of Professional Coders in 2002 and recently obtained a CMCS, Certified Medical Coding Specialist from American Medical Billing Association (AMBA) in 2019. Since 2004, her career focus has consisted of multi-specialty documentation, coding, billing and contract audits for educational purposes, internal benchmarking and complex legal reviews, fee scheduling and audits. Specialty areas include anesthesia, pain management, neurosurgery, pulmonology, orthopedics, urology among others. She also a candidate for membership with the North American Spine Society (NASS). (This is being voted on Nov 15)
For the last 15 years, Leslie has been a speaker at national and local conferences for about 15 years for groups such as local AAPC chapters, Decision Health’s Advance Specialty Coding Symposium and The Coding Institute’s CodingCon national coding conferences as a subject matter expert in Anesthesia and Pain Management, Orthopedics and general medical billing and coding topics. Leslie has also done some virtual webinars for Jobs for American Medical Coders (JFAMC). Her coding articles have been published in Becker’s Online Review, BC Magazine and Find-a-Code.
In her spare time, Leslie has built and currently maintains 6 websites, including her own AskLeslie.net, and JFAMC.org, an offshoot of Facebook group Jobs for American Medical Coders, with employment tips and information shared by members of Jobs for American Medical Coders (JFAMC), which boasts over 24,000 American-based members.