About CodingWebU.com
Kenneth Smith - President/CEO
Kenneth Smith is the President and CEO of CodingWebU.com He has a personal commitment to provide the Medical Coding and Billing arenas with quality education at affordable prices.
Ken has worked for consulting firms, hospitals, health systems, and physician networks for the past 12 years. As a financial consultant, he was able to save hospitals millions of dollars by helping them understand Medicare Transfer DRGs and how to correctly bill claims and ensure proper reimbursement. He also has experience in Revenue Management, Operations Improvement, and Supply Chain Management. He has developed and implemented a national Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) program.
For the past seven years in addition to consulting, Ken has also created and managed a web-based initiative, allowing healthcare facilities, as well as, individual students, the ability to complete self-paced, interactive, multi-media training programs in Revenue Cycle and Medical Coding for his previous employment. Prior to leaving, he was able to provide over 10,000 students with over 25,000 educational courses. In April 2008, he was able to obtain ownership his of the Medical Coding education and developed CodingWebU.com.
Authoring Partners
Deborah
Deborah, CPC has over 20 years experience working in the Health Care Coding and Billing Industry. She began in 1987 working for an Internal Medicine Specialist performing insurance billing. She has worked as a Coding Auditor, a Compliance and Regulatory Researcher, a Private Coding Consultant, and an Owner and Operator of a Billing Service. In addition, she was employed with two large Health Maintenance Organizations in Southern CA. She attends several yearly coding conferences and training sessions, as well as, develops coding training courses for educational purposes. Deborah is currently pursuing her Coding Compliance Certification.
Donna
Donna’s background includes over 30 years in the health care field as a Physician Assistant and Professional Coder. She has a Bachelors Degree in Business Management and was one of the founders and past presidents of the Southeastern Pennsylvania AAPC local chapter. Her passion is helping people pass the CPC exam and maintain their credentials. She has taught CPT coding education classes for the past 10 years. Her achievements include the AAPC’s Networker of the Year Award and the St. Christopher’s Educator of the Year Award. She currently is a CPC and a CPC-H.
Dorothy
Dorothy is an Independent Consultant and Educator in Atlanta. She was a Medicare specialist for a large hospital system and has 32 years of experience in healthcare. She currently is a technical school instructor in Atlanta. She performs coding reviews for the QIO in GA, and also performs physician audits and education. Additionally, she has been a technical contributor for several medical publications and has developed a workshop focusing on facility billing, coding and reimbursement. She has supervised a physician audit team for a healthcare system and presented at several national healthcare conferences.
Her credentials include: CPC-H-I, CHCC, CPUM, CPUR, ACS-OP, CCS-P, RCC, RMC, CPC-EMS, CPC-FP, PCS, FCS, CPAR
Laureen, OTR, CPC
Laureen, OTR, CPC Laureen has over 20 years in the healthcare field. She graduated as an Occupational Therapist in 2006 and before long was running a successful therapy practice which did over 1.6 million in billing per year with a less than .06% rejection rate. Once Medicare changed how rehab companies were reimbursed this business was closed and Laureen eventually started a new company dedicated to teaching Medical Billing and Coding. This business was eventually sold and is now run by the AAPC as part of their online course offerings.
Currently Laureen works full time as a Coding Analyst and on the side teaches medical coding though her company CodingCertification.Org.
She founded the Southern Jersey Chapter of the AAPC and also served on the AAPC National Advisory board from 2003 – 2006 in addition to being a consulting editor for several “Coding Alert” publications for the Coding Institute.
Mary Kay
Mary Kay has 15 years of management, training, and health care compliance, which gives her the competitive advantage to save her clients’ time and money. She has led major leadership and transformation initiatives nationwide; and has been a former Director of Health Information Management at various health care organizations where she coordinated large scale data conversion projects, and instituted corporate compliance and coding process improvements. She has served as an Executive HIPAA Privacy & Security Project Coordinator, and JCAHO Hospital Information Management Executive Committee Chairperson. She is also the Lead Faculty for Allied Health and Advanced Medical Coding & Billing for Lincoln College Online a division of Lincoln Education Services, West Orange, NJ. In addition she serves as a workforce development adjunct instructor for Penn State University, and Marywood University. She is also an adjunct instructor and professional tutor at Keystone College, La Plume, PA.
She earned her MBA in Organizational Development & Human Resources and a Bachelor of Science degree in Health Information Management. She is credentialed as a Registered Health Information Administrator (RHIA), and as a Certified Medical Billing Specialist (CMBS). She is also pursuing a Doctorate of Education (EdD) degree in Higher Education Leadership.
Mary Kay is actively involved with numerous professional organizations, the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA), Pennsylvania State Health Information Management Association(PAHIMA), American Society for Training & Development (ASTD), American Academy or Professional Coders (AAPC), The Greater Scranton Chamber of Commerce and the Greater Carbondale Chamber of Commerce. In addition, Mary Kay has been published in a number of management publications on a variety of topics including management, human resources, health care quality performance improvement, medical coding & compliance issues, and health care curriculum design. She also serves as a textbook reviewer for two major allied health textbook publishers where her coding/billing contributions have enhanced the educational experience for students across the country.
Michelle
Michelle actively serves physician clinics as a consultant, coder, chart auditor and trainer, and has a confident reputation as a competent trouble-shooter. Michelle is passionate about identifying internal issues, properly handling them, and getting clients back into a place of compliance. Her mission to help others reach this status of qualified excellence shines in her role as teacher and mentor—for both coding students and professionals alike—in a variety of venues including classes, workshops, seminars, on-site training and individual instruction.
Michelle has served the healthcare industry for over fifteen years, eight of which has been as a certified coder (CPC—Certified Professional Coder) through the American Academy of Professional Coders (AAPC). She is certified for both the hospital (CPC-H) and payer (CPC-P) designations. She is also an Approved Instructor (CPC-I) for the Professional Medical Coding Curriculum. Michelle is the founder and current president of the local Fremont, Nebraska AAPC Chapter.
Mickie
Mickie has over 25 years in the compliance field, with 20 years specifically in medical billing, coding, and reimbursement. Her knowledge, skills and abilities have helped her develop, coordinate and support compliance program functions and activities directed toward helping health care organizations comply with federal, state and local regulations. Examples of practices that she has worked for include a one provider private practice, a large multi-specialty practice and a tertiary care teaching hospital and medical school. She has been a Certified Professional Coder for 13 years and has held numerous officer positions in various local chapters of the American Academy of Professional Coders. She also is an independent consultant that performs education seminars and audits.
Sharon
Sharon started her career as a nurse, then moved into management consulting and coding. Her experience in practice management spans more than 30 years. She has earned an RN, BA, and a College Certificate in Healthcare Management in addition to being certified as a CMM, CPC, and a CCS-P.
She teaches medical billing and coding at a local college, and primarily works in medical records and HEDIS audits and coding compliance areas for physicians and facilities. Nationally published, she continues to author relevant articles and courses as well as a newsletter for her clients.
Tina
Tina has over 25 years of medical experience including a diverse background in all areas of medicine in the physician and facility settings and she various physician specialties.
Her consulting company provides compliance focused education from front office to back. She is active in the American Academy of Professional Coders and in her State Medical Society. Her professional speaking includes speaking educational lectures for the AAPC and other healthcare related groups.
Her credentials include: MALS, CPC-I, CPC-H-I, CPC-P, CCS-P, MCS-P, MCS-I, CMC.
