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.
Lisa has over 25 years in medical social work experience; from acute care hospitalization, home healthcare, to hospice and palliative care. Lisa is currently the Clinical Compliance Educator for the Accreditation Commission for Health Care, Inc where she is responsible for educating organizations on the ACHC accreditation process as well as assisting organizations with the interpretation of the ACHC Standards for Accreditation.
Lynn Anderanin, has over 40 years’ experience in all areas of the physician practice. In her current position, where she has been for 25 years, Lynn is the Sr.
Dr. Dunaway was on every-other-night-on-call general surgeon in a small South Carolina town for seventeen years when he created a streamlined E&M algorithm, (Risk Based Coding™), to simplify and streamline E&M coding after attending a very frustrating coding seminar in Atlanta, GA. He wrote Pocket Guide to Clinical Coding in 1997 and subsequently left clinical practice to create a physician education business and created the commercially available Dunaway Documentation System. He has been an award winning, (Designated CSP, Certified Speaking Professional, by the National Speakers Association), full-time speaker and consultant since 2002, has spoken professionally in 47 states to date.
Maggie Adams is the president of EMS Financial Services, with over 20 years’ experience in the ambulance industry as a business owner and reimbursement and compliance consultant.
Marsha has been involved in the medical coding, compliance, billing, healthcare reimbursement, education and management fields for over 30 years. Her experience encompasses academic medicine, hospital, hospital-based physicians, physicians and facility coding.
Nicole focuses her practice on white-collar litigation, healthcare regulatory matters, compliance assessments, and data privacy issues. Nicole conducts internal investigations of companies when fraud is suspected, conducts risk assessments of corporate high-risk areas, and investigates data breach incidents. She represents companies under civil and criminal investigation by the Department of Justice, as well as financial investigations by the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Rhonda Granja is a certified professional coder and certified medical assistant. Rhonda has been in the medical office profession since 1990 and is currently working as an independent medical consultant.
With more than 20 years of experience in healthcare, Sonda’s expertise includes comprehensive knowledge of ICD9 and CPT coding concepts, documentation and training, and medical insurance reimbursement. Her experience comes from working in a variety of positions both as an outside consultant and as a professional within hospital-owned and private medical practices.
With his 25 years of IT security experience, Tod provides security consulting services and HIPAA/PCI compliance assessments for organizations throughout the United States and across the globe. Prior to joining SecurityMetrics, Ferran held the president position for several successful managed service providers and directed software/security development teams in the US, India, and Netherlands..