Amy Pritchett

Amy is a Manager, HCC Coding/Audit and Education Services with Pinnacle Enterprise Risk Consulting Services with more than 20 years of medical billing and coding experience. Her high-level auditing skills encompass both facility and professional fee services. Specializing in revenue cycle management, inpatient/OP/OBS/ANC/ED/SDS, her broad expertise includes RAC reviews, charge master reviews, inpatient MS-DRGs and APR-DRGs, outpatient coding assessments, and clinical documentation improvement. Having managed large coding departments and teams, Pritchett is an exceptional leader and trainer. She brings to Pinnacle vast experience and talent that can transform entire coding departments and achieve improved performance, quality, and accuracy. She is also exceptional at locating areas for improvement and developing processes that address specific issues to maximize individual and team potential. Prior to Pinnacle, she held several director, management, and lead educator positions, where she was responsible for facility coding, auditing, and review, P/L, revenue cycle, and the managing of pro-fee audit for specialty clients including physician evaluation and management leveling. Pritchett was also responsible for the oversight of hundreds of coders and multiple locations, where she provided staff with ongoing training. She is a certified ICD-10-CM/PCS instructor and serves as an adjunct professor of medical billing and coding within the University of South Alabama Medical Billing and Coding program, where she has taught for seven years. In addition, she has had several speaking engagements with AAPC. She also volunteers several nights a week with Volunteers of America, where she teaches medical coding and billing in a program created for local members of the community.