Presenters List

BC Advantage is excited to introduce you to the following industry professionals speaking at this year's BC Advantage 2010 audio event.

We encourage you to contact them with any questions you may have and visit their web sites to learn more about what they offer. If you are interested in being a speaker for any of our audio events please email us at audio@billing-coding.com.

Presenter: Susan Garrison, CHCA, CHC, CCS-P, CPC, CPC-H, PCS, FCS, CPAR

Executive Vice President of Med Law Advisors, Inc.
Executive Vice President of Magnus Confidential, Inc.
Executive Director of the Association of Health Care Auditors and Educators (AHCAE)
Website: www.magnusconfidential.com : www. ahcae.org
Email: seg@magnusconfidential.com

About the presenter:

Susan Garrison, CHCA, CHC, CCS-P, CPC, CPC-H, PCS, FCS, CPAR currently holds the positions of Executive Vice President of Med Law Advisors, Inc., Executive Vice President of Magnus Confidential, Inc. and Executive Director of the Association of Health Care Auditors and Educators (AHCAE).

Susan Garrison is one of those rare people who can say she is a consultant, speaker, auditor, educator, and author. In her role as Executive Vice President for Med Law Advisors, Inc. and Magnus Confidential, Inc., she has attracted clients including solo practicing physicians, large teaching facilities, free standing Ambulatory Surgery Centers, hospitals, national associations, publishers, and over 100 other leading facilities and affiliated organizations. Susan serves on the board of directors of the Association of Health Care Auditors and Educators (AHCAE). She is also past president of the American Academy of Professional Coders and past Chair of the American College of Medical Coding Specialists.

With over 25 years of experience, Susan's areas of expertise include Documentation, Coding, Billing, Litigation Support, Expert Witness Services, Revenue Enhancement, Revenue Cycle Operations, and Professional Communications. Her prolific publishing includes hundreds of articles and 3 books. In 1991 she was presented with the AAPC's Coder of the Year Award.

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Presenter: Vanessa Best, CCS-P, CPC

President of Precision HealthCare Consultants
Website: www.precisionhcc.com
Email: vbest@precisionhcc.com

About the presenter:

Ms. Vanessa Best CCS-P, CPC is President and CEO of Precision HealthCare Consultants, an award Winning McKesson ONE Certified Platinum Dealership.

Ms Best is the 2010 Winner of the 25 Most Influential Black Women in Business, Vendor of Medisoft Clinical EMR, Practice Partner Software, Medisoft Medical Billing Software and listed with Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield as a certified vendor as well as billing service. She has received certification with the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) as a CCS-P (Certified Coding Specialist, Physician Based) and with the American Academy of Procedural Coders (AAPC) as a CPC (Certified Procedural Coder). In addition, her company is listed with the Better Business Bureau. 

Ms. Vanessa Best was pleased to be a featured speaker at the Bank of America Entrepreneurs Conference, featured as success story in Black Enterprise Magazine and recently received the "40 Under 40" Achievement Award from the Network Journal. Under her leadership Precision HealthCare was the business Spotlight in the November 2004 Small Business Opportunities Magazine and Vanessa was the proud recipient of the "2010 and 2009 McKesson ICARE Medisoft VAR Winner" &  "2004 Medisoft VAR of the Year Award".

Under her leadership, Precision was also selected by DELL Computers and debut on NYC Big Screen in Times Square July 2007 as an elite company to believe in!  All of this to say Vanessa is truly the BEST! We are confident that her tools and expertise will yield positive results! She can be contacted with questions/comments at Vanessa@precisionhcc.com or 516-771-7554 /888-265-2547 www.precisionhcc.com

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Presenter: Lisa Asbell, RN, CHP, CITRMS

President and CEO of Identity Theft Resolutions, Inc in FL
Website: www.idtrx.com
Email: lisa@idtrx.com

About the presenter:

Lisa Asbell RN, CHP, CITRMS is the president and CEO of Identity Theft Resolutions based in Florida.

Lisa's company provides employee training on identity theft and the related identity theft laws. Her company focuses on the medical industry and Lisa has the only Identity theft awareness-training program approved by the Florida Board of Nursing for continuing Education for Nurses. Lisa has been a contributing writer in many publications on the subject of identity theft and the related laws.

Lisa has spoken and trained on the subjects of identity theft, Red Flag Rules law and Hi-tech Act and the related laws to groups ranging from 10 - 10,000. She has spoken over 1,000 times in the past six years and has trained more than 15,000 medical staff employees. Lisa is a Registered Nurse, Certified HIPAA Professional and Certified Identity Theft Risk Management Specialists and is a sought after speaker.

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Presenter: Maxine Inman Collins, MBA, CPA, CMC, CMOM, CMIS

Email: remc4@aol.com

About the presenter:

Maxine has more than twenty years of experience in medical practice management, adult education and general business. She has taught courses at various levels, including teaching business communications and accounting at Midwestern State University in Texas. Maxine has extensive experience teaching administrative and clinical personnel essential medical office skills such as medical terminology, CPT and ICD-9 coding, reimbursement, OSHA, and HIPAA compliance. She is adept at personnel management, government rules and regulations, accounting and budgeting. Additionally, her experience with practice marketing and development make her a knowledgeable and much sought-after practice management resource.

Maxine has served as an administrator of a multi-specialty clinic, where she was responsible for all clinic operations including medical records, billing and collections, OSHA, HIPAA and Medicare compliance, and all accounting operations. She also has experience in medical practice consulting, and has successfully launched multiple practices.

Maxine holds a MBA in business from Midwestern State University, and is presently working toward a doctorate in Health Care Administration. She is also a Certified Public Accountant and a Certified Medical Coder.

Maxine is currently on the faculty at Practice Management Institute (PMI) and has been a trainer with them for eight years. PMI has been around for 25 years providing practice management training for doctors and their staff. Our classes address every area of practice management from advanced coding and reimbursement topics to customer service and financial management.

PMI currently offers three certifications: one for coders, one for reimbursement professionals, and a third for office managers. In all, PMI has certified 15,000 medical office professionals. Their exam is probably the best tool out there to measure coding competency. It's proctored only in a live environment. But unlike other coding exams, PMI's is not multiple-choice so the answer is not sitting right there in front of you. The Certified Medical Coder credential is recognized by CMS in the Medicare Modernization Act.

They have two national conferences each year, one in San Antonio and the other in Las Vegas. The speakers present on the most current topics affecting medical office professionals. You can find out more at the PMI web site. www.pmimd.com or 1-800-259-5562

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Presenter: Kathleen Young, CPC, CPMA, CMBS-I

CEO of Resolutions Billing & Consulting, Inc in AZ
Website: www.resolutionsbilling.com
Email: Kathy@resolutionsbilling.com

About the presenter:

Mrs. Kathleen J. Young is the CEO of Resolutions Billing & Consulting, Inc. She is a co-founder in the company with her husband Dan, daughter Cari, and son-in-law Kevin McCormick. After successfully building other billing companies, Mrs. Young, along with her husband and family, decided in 2003 to create their own company with distinctive core values. These core values are Respect, Integrity, Competency and Humility. The company motto is “Raising the standards of medical billing.”

Mrs. Young has achieved many certifications, including Certified Professional Coder (CPC) and Certified Professional Medical Auditor (CPMA) through the American Academy of Professional Coders (AAPC.) From 2003 to 2006 Mrs. Young was an instructor for the Medical Association of Billers (MAB) as a Certified Medical Billing Specialist-Instructor (CMBS-I.) These and other certifications have enhanced her formal education from Bob Jones University.

Mrs. Young currently serves on the board of Apollo College in Mesa, Arizona and is a guest lecturer. She also is a guest lecturer for the Arizona state University (ASU) Nurse Practitioner program, conducts webinars and writes articles for BC Advantage Magazine, and is a conference speaker with Synergy, MAB, DecisionHealth, the AAPC in Arizona and Nevada, and is called upon to speak on compliance and other coding issues at physician conferences.

Mrs. Young's skills include coding, auditing, practice management, medical billing, understanding insurances and business building. These skills have provided the basis for spreading the word on best billing practices. Mrs. Young has lectured around the United States and conducted webinars. Her proprietary subjects and lectures range from compliant billing, integrity, E&M coding, accounts receivable, raising the standards, practice management for better reimbursement, and OIG regulations in the medical field.

Mrs. Young has a heart for doctors. She desires for her client's to succeed as providers of medical care. To help her clients, Mrs. Young conducts chart audits to establish a baseline compliance that will enable the providers to move forward in a pro-active compliance practice. Mrs. Young is also called upon by other providers to provide this same baseline compliance audit.

Mrs. Young's commitment to success goes beyond the medical industry. Outside of the medical field, you can find Mrs. Young Mentoring women who have found themselves in need of emotional and spiritual assistance. Even in her capacity as CEO, you can find women coming to her for guidance and wisdom that has become rare in our world of knowledge.

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Presenter: Jacqueline Thelian, CPC, CPC-I

Website: www.medcoconsultants.com
Email: jacquelinet@medcoconsultants.com
OR by Phone: 718-217-3802

About the presenter:

Mrs. Jacqueline Thelian is a Healthcare Consultant, Certified Professional Coder, Subject Matter Expert and sought after educator with over twenty years' experience in medical coding and business management. Her extensive experience includes physician practice management, coding/billing compliance and reimbursement issues and has taught extensively in Academic Medical Centers, The Chubb Institute, Hospitals, private physician practices and has conducted a variety of seminars for numerous Medical Societies.

She is also an AAPC Certified PMCC instructor for the PMCC Course (Professional Medical Coding Curriculum) and the AAPC Medical Coding Workshops. Continuing Education Units (CEU'S) for the PMCC course and other coding courses are approved by the American Academy of Professional Coders (AAPC). Her articles on clinical coding issues have been published in many popular healthcare publications.

Mrs. Thelian is frequently contracted by many of the major Healthcare Law Firms for clients under Corporate Integrity Agreements (CIA's). In this capacity Mrs. Thelian is the Independent Review Organization (IRO) performing chart reviews following the Office of Inspector General's (OIG) guidelines and working with the law firm, client and government officials on the case. Mrs. Thelian also provides education to facilities and providers who are under CIA's (Corporate Integrity Agreements).

Working in concert with major Healthcare Law Firms on various cases, Mrs. Thelian has provided expert testimony on behalf of many physicians/providers both at Medicare Hearings and for the Office of Professional Medical Conduct (OPMC). In several cases Administrative Law Judges (ALJs) have based their decisions/rulings solely on Mrs. Thelian's detailed unbiased reports and testimony, which ultimately resulted in favorable outcomes for the physician/provider.

Mrs. Thelian has developed curriculum for numerous specialty and facility topics. She has been a key presenter and a didactic author for the past several years in an ongoing project on OPPS/APC readiness for major Healthcare Facilities of New York City. In this capacity, Mrs. Thelian has developed training materials related to subjects such as Correct Coding for OPPS, Appropriate Designation of Evaluation and Management Level of Service, the accurate usage of modifiers, specialty seminars for Pediatrics, Internal Medicine, Family Practice, OB-GYN, Psychiatry, Emergency Medicine, Physical Therapy, and General Surgery.

Mrs. Thelian is a requested speaker for third party billing companies and the pharmaceutical industry with regard to new medical technology. She has developed training materials and obtained reimbursement for new technology for Biopsy-Ethicon's Stereotactic Breast Biopsy Mammotome and Hand Held Ultra-Sound Devices as well as Novacept's Endometrial Ablation Novasure Device. She has spoken on a variety of topics, including Stereotactic Breast Biopsy, Endometrial Ablation, Understanding the Coding System and Understanding Evaluation and Management Codes. In addition, Mrs. Thelian has over a decade of experience in operational issues related to Medicare and Medicaid billing and reimbursement. She has performed numerous documentation audits and CMS 1500 claim reviews for New York Law firms, Accounting firms, Leading Healthcare Facilities, Clinics and private physician practices.

Medco Consultants are distributors of the Ingenix Coding Products which include the ICD-10-CM and ICD-10-PCS books.

Jacqueline Thelian is also an AAPC ICD-10 Instructor and can provide on-site training for the ICD-10 Implementation.

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Presenter: Darlene Boschert, RHIA, CPC, CPC-H, CPC-I, NCMA

Email: darlenecpc@tampabay.rr.com

About the presenter:

Darlene has been in the medical field for over 30 years and is currently the Director of the Medical Coding and Billing Program at Ultimate Medical Academy in Clearwater, Florida. As the Director, she have created and developed custom lecture materials and exercises to establish training that simulates the real working setting. She is also in charge of training and hiring of all instructors for our program and works closely with the on-line program reviewing and advising on curriculum.

Darlene has successfully owned and operated her own medical billing, coding, transcription, and consulting business from 1984 to 1992, employing more than 45 people and serving over 40 physicians and 10 hospitals in 6 different states. She also worked as a Practice Administrator for 12 years for an orthopedic practice after she sold her business in 1992. She also worked as a medical transcriptionist for a hospital in Dayton, Ohio for five years before starting her own business. Darlene has been in formal education for about 15 years.

Darlene has been a national consultant and speaker for Medicare, Medicaid, Blue Cross, Aetna and many more. She has also put on local and national seminars for various consulting companies throughout the past 30 years.

In 2004, Darlene was awarded the honor of “Faculty Member of the Year” by the Florida Association of Post Secondary Schools and Colleges. She is an approved AAPC Instructor and Proctor for the American Academy of Professional Coders and also a former member of the AAPC National Advisory Board. She writes, records audios and does speaking engagements for many organizations including BC Advantage, AAPC, and The Coding Institute just to mention a few.

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Presenter: Betty Johnson. CPC, CPC-I, CCS-P, PCS, RMC, CCP, CIC, CPC-H, CDERC

President of Betty Johnson and Associates based in IL.
Website: www.bettyjassociates.com
Email: betty@bettyjassociates.com

About the presenter:

Betty Johnson. CPC, CPC-I, CCS-P, PCS, RMC, CCP, CIC, CPC-H, CDERC is the President of Betty Johnson and Associates based in IL.

Betty is a nationally known consultant and speaker who carries more than 20 years of healthcare experience and apart from her many certifications also holds a BA in healthcare administration. Betty served on the National Advisory Board of the AAPC from 2004 to 2007 and was elected as an officer of the board from 2005-2007. She currently sits on the editorial board for BC Advantage.

Betty has spoken nationally for the AAPC, AHIMA, Blue Cross Blue Shield, The Coding Institute, and many others. Her articles on coding, billing, and compliance have been featured in numerous magazines including the Coding Edge and BC Advantage.

Her company provides educational services with live seminars to help managers, coders, billers and providers to understand proper coding and billing methodology. Certification courses are also conducted for those who wish to become certified coders.

Other services that Betty Johnson and Associates provides include Auditing services for providers and clinics, claims denial management, developing effective coding and reimbursement strategies and a consulting contract that is like having a consultant on call.

Betty has staffed her company with experienced healthcare professionals with proven capabilities, outstanding records and many years of service in the industry.

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