AUDITCON

Amy is a Director of Internal Audit for Bon Secours Mercy Health, an integrated multi-state Catholic health system based in Cincinnati, OH. Amy leads a team that performs revenue cycle / coding / documentation / billing audits and data analytics for the entire system. Since earning her Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees in Business with concentrations in Finance from The College of William and Mary in Virginia, Amy has spent most of her career in healthcare finance and audit and now has over 27 years of experience in the industry. She is a frequent speaker at the regional and national levels and has authored several articles for various professional journals. In addition to AAPC, Amy is an active member of the Healthcare Financial Management Association, the Institute of Internal Auditors, and the Association for Healthcare Internal Auditors, for which she serves on the Board of Directors and the Editorial Board. She is also currently the President of her local AAPC chapter. She is an avid W&M Tribe sports fan, an active leader on the local alumni board, a former Special Olympics swim coach, and a lifelong swimmer. She is a proud dachshund mom and is a native and current resident of the Hampton Roads area of Virginia.

Angela has over 20 years of experience in the healthcare industry. She served as Region 5 representative on AAPC's National Advisory Board from 2013-2015 and as the member relations officer from 2015-2018. Clements has extensive experience in multi-specialty coding, documentation, and auditing. She’s also a frequent speaker at local medical managers’ meetings, as well as other AAPC local chapters in her region.

Christine Hall is the CEO and senior consultant for Stirling Global Solutions, LLC. She has a degree in health information management and sociology, along with 30-plus years of healthcare administration and information management experience. She is chairwoman of AAPC’s Billing Advisory Committee, a skilled educator, and a national public speaker. Hall has a strong core in compliance, ethics and regulatory affairs, revenue cycle management, coding, credentialing, and practice management. She is a subject matter expert in specialty coding, risk adjustment, telehealth, and reimbursement. Hall has had the pleasure of working with many of the gold star standard organizations in healthcare such as AAPC, AHIMA, and various national medical associations and societies. She serves as the education officer of the Palm Beach, Florida local chapter.

Colleen Gianatasio has over 20 years of experience in all aspects of the business of healthcare. In her current role, she is responsible for provider engagement and clinical documentation improvement for accurate coding. Gianatasio specializes in developing innovative coding curricula and instruction to support compliance with federal guidelines and appropriate reimbursement processes. She enjoys teaching a variety of coding, documentation, and auditing classes, and is president of the 2022-2024 AAPC National Advisory Board.

Erika has over 15 years of experience in healthcare with an emphasis on provider and coder auditing and education, most recently as a consultant at Coker Group. Her experience in multispecialty audits has established a solid foundation of the evaluation and management guidelines and how to teach those concepts.

Jaci Kipreos has been in the field of medical coding and auditing for over 30 years and received a Bachelor of Science degree in finance from Virginia Tech. She has worked in a variety of practice settings and has expertise in coding for family practice, urgent care, obstetrics and gynecology, general surgery, and Medicare’s teaching physician guidelines, with an emphasis on compliance with evaluation and management guidelines. Kipreos has been an instructor for various AAPC workshops for the past 10 years and is a frequent speaker at AAPC’s national and regional HEALTHCON conferences. She has also provided presentations for the American Association of Nurse Practitioners state event in Virginia and the national event for the American Association of Medical Assistants. Kipreos is a past president of the Richmond and Charlottesville, Va., local chapters, and served as president of AAPC’s National Advisory Board from 2015 to 2018.

Jacob Swartzwelder has over 15 years of healthcare experience working in private offices, hospitals, consulting firms, and international coding companies. He specializes in E/M auditing, risk adjustment, operational risk reduction, and leadership development. Swartzwelder is a SAFe 5 Practitioner and an AAPC 2022-2025 National Advisory Board member and co-chair of the Career Advancement Committee. Swartzwelder owns and manages Compliant Approach Partners, LLC.

Kathleen has over 11 years of experience in provider and payer organizations. She is currently the Manager of Risk Adjustment Quality Assurance for CDPHP, where she oversees all aspects of the risk adjustment audit program while also providing education to internal and external partners. Prior to her shift to risk adjustment, Spaulding held a leadership position in professional billing for a large teaching hospital system. She enjoys coaching coders and recently became a certified AAPC instructor to further that goal. Spaulding is the 2023 education officer for the Albany, N.Y., local chapter.

Leonta Williams is director of education at AAPC. She holds multiple credentials across several professional organizations and has more than 20 years of health information management experience as a coding director, auditor, educator, trainer, practice manager, and mentor. Williams is founder and past president of the Covington, Georgia local chapter and served as secretary on AAPC’s 2018-2021 National Advisory Board.

Lori Cox has over 25 years of experience working in the business side of healthcare. She began her career in patient accounts and then moved into billing and coding for a multispecialty clinic. She was eventually promoted to billing supervisor and then to compliance officer, where she wrote, maintained, and trained employees and providers on fraud and abuse. Currently, Cox works for AAPC Services as Director of Client Engagement, performing audits and education for clients across the U.S. She has spoken at HEALTHCON and regional conferences and has traveled the country educating coders and physicians on complex coding topics such as hem/onc and E/M guidelines. Cox is the past member relations officer for AAPC’s National Advisory Board.

Rhonda Buckholtz has more than 30 years of experience in healthcare, working in the management, reimbursement, billing, and coding sectors, in addition to being an instructor. She was responsible for all ICD-10 training and curriculum at AAPC. Buckholtz has authored numerous articles for healthcare publications and has spoken at numerous national conferences for AAPC, AMA, HIMSS, AAO-HNS, AGA, and ASOA.

Sandra works full time for an auditing firm where she manages and develops relationships with clients, coding staff, and providers, providing them with auditing services and educational sessions. She has more than 35 years of experience in healthcare and medical records management, coding, auditing, and compliance in the hospital, outpatient, and physician settings. Brown loves presenting and sharing education and continues to teach both nationally and locally, including teaching courses for AAPC. Her areas of specialty include ob-gyn, general surgery, cardiology, anesthesia, E/M, oncology, and radiology coding. Brown does regional and national presentations regularly for groups such as AHIMA, WHIMA, CHIMA, NCHIMA, HCCA, and AAPC.

Stephani Scott has over 30 years of experience in the healthcare industry working closely with physicians and staff in Health Information Management. She has worked in a variety of settings including hospitals, long-term care, large multispecialty physician practice, and EHR software design and development. Scott was a part owner of a consulting company for many years providing services in best practices for physician practice management services including coding and documentation audits, compliance, and revenue cycle management. She has extensive experience in inpatient and outpatient auditing and coding compliance. Throughout her career, Scott has enjoyed teaching E/M coding, compliance, and EMR utilization to many physicians and staff locally and nationally.

Stephanie Sjogren is a director of coding and provider reimbursement, working with payment integrity to ensure proper claims adjudication and to prevent fraud, waste, and abuse. Prior to joining Connecticare/Emblem Health, she performed provider audits and education at a women’s healthcare group. Sjogren has also worked with physicians and staff to integrate and use electronic health record systems effectively and to stay in compliance with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ rules and regulations. Her areas of specialty are E/M, auditing, and clinical documentation improvement. Sjogren previously served as an officer for the Hartford, Conn., local chapter.

Todd is the managing director for Medical Audit Resource Services, Inc, an HMA Company.  He graduated from Kansas City College of Osteopathic Medicine in 1980 and worked in several local emergency departments until he opened his company, Medical Audit Resource Services. Husty has spoken at numerous coding and auditing conferences throughout the country.