Ms. Crouch has been training creative professionals to enhance their design skills with superior product knowledge since 1998. She believes in teaching an understanding of the fundamentals of an application, then applying the knowledge using new and innovative techniques. Crouch is an active graphic designer...

Karen Marsh is President of Kare-Med Consulting, a healthcare consulting company that specializes in emergency department financial improvement and EN-Chart Scanning Program, a documentation and coding program for hospital emergency departments. She has more than twenty-five years experience in the emergency medicine arena....

Karen Lusky, BA, BSN, MSN, RN, is a medical writer who has a master’s degree in psychiatric mental health nursing from Vanderbilt University. She has more than 20 years of experience as a nurse, teacher and journalist. She has provided psychiatric case management for people...

Ms. Drummond brings over 20 years of experience and twelve coding and billing certifications: CPC-I, CPC, CPC-H, CHA, MCMC, CIBS, PCS, FCS, CMC, ACS-RA, ACS-OB/GYN and CMBS-I. She serves on the national board of Advanced Coding Specialists in Radiology and OB/GYN. Karen is a past presenter...

Karen Vance provides clinical and general operations consulting services to home care agencies, and helps home care providers establish and maintain quality management practices and provides assessment, training and consulting. Karen's experience in home care since 1981 includes direct service provision as an occupational therapy...

Karl R. Oroz; CAMS, CFE, PI, EA spent 25 years with IRS Criminal Investigations. He is a trial experienced agent with case histories in tax, white-collar crime, money laundering, and Bank Secrecy Act violations. Several of these investigations were highlighted in the national media including...

With over twenty years of consulting in time management and productivity, Karla Brandau, CSP, brings you more than the run-of-the-mill ideas. She infuses date book organizer ideas and techniques into Microsoft Outlook for a shot in the arm as you leap into the 21st Century...

With over 30 years experience in the renal nutrition field with the last 21 years at Washington University School of Medicine, Ms. Giles has worked in all aspects of the field and has been involved in many clinical trials and studies, primarily in the area...

Karla R. Lovaasen, RHIA, CCS, CCS-P, is an independent healthcare consultant and has over 30 years of healthcare experience. She is a co-author of “ICD-9-CM Coding: Theory and Practice,” which was recently published by Elsevier, and is the Senior ICD-9-CM Coding Reviewer for Carol Buck’s...

Karlene Dittrich is the founder and CEO of MedRevenue Solutions, LLC, a company that specializing in optimizing provider reimbursement by overturning creative insurance denials. She works as an insurance reimbursement and appeal specialist assisting various healthcare providers with denial management training and appeal services that...

Kate Brewer, PT, MBA, GCS, is the vice president of rehabilitation services for Greenfield Rehabilitation Agency, Inc. and the President/Owner of Progressive Rehab Solutions, providing practical consulting services to rehabilitation professionals. Brewer has presented nationally on documentation, coding and rehabilitation management issues and is a...

Katherine H. West, BSN, MSEd, CIC, has been working in the field of infection control since 1975. She lectures both nationally and internationally on this topic, as well as publishes books, video tapes and articles on infection control related issues. She has served as a...

Kathleen Bartholomew, RN, MN, a registered nurse and counselor, has been a national speaker for the nursing profession for the past six years.  As the manager of a 57 bed surgical unit in Seattle, Bartholomew quickly recognized that creating a culture where staff felt a...

Kathleen Arnold CCS, CCS-P, CCC - I am the Cardiology coder for the Regional Heart Center at the University of Washington Medical Center, which provides cardiology services for the states of Washington, Wyoming, Alaska, Montana, and Idaho.  We are a major research center as well...

Kathleen A. Mueller, RN, CPC, CCS-P, CMSCS, CCC, PCS is a coding consultant with over 30 years experience in both clinical and physician office settings. Her vast background includes ICU/CCU nursing, physician office administration, surgical and endoscopy billing and coding, and insurance claims submission and...

 Kathy Jacobs, Microsoft MVP in PowerPoint and OneNote, has been using Office since its earliest days. She started out using Word for newsletters, letters, books, and other documents in the late 1980's. She added PowerPoint and Excel to her areas of expertise in the early...

Kathy DeVault has been involved in Health Information Management and Coding for more than 20 years with more than 17 years of coding experience. DeVault is currently the Professional Practice Resource Manager for Coding and Reimbursement for AHIMA (American Health Information Management Association). Her knowledge of...

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Kathy Stull, CPC, CMRS, CPMA, CIRCC has been the owner of Superior Resource, Inc. since 2007. She has over 24-years experience in medical billing and coding, including 10 years working at a major insurance company as a claims processor, claims analyst, customer service representative, and...

Kelley W. Suskie has been with the Department of Pathology for more than ten years.  She has performed as a distinguished administrator over a large and complex department that involves personnel in many divisions spread over three hospitals.  The departmental budget and personnel have more...

  Kelly Dennis has over 29 years experience in anesthesia and speaks about anesthesia issues nationally. She has a Master’s Degree in Business Administration, is certified through the American Academy of Professional Coders, is an Advanced Coding Specialist for the Board of Medical Specialty Coding and...

Kelly Knott, MS, has a B.S. degree in exercise physiology from the University of California, Berkeley and a M.S. degree in health fitness management from American University in Washington, DC. She is ABD (all but dissertation) in physical activity and exercise behavior from The Ohio...

Kelly Loya is the Consulting Technical editor for The Coding Institute's Hematology and Oncology Coding Alert Monthly Newsletter and also a Senior Consultant with Sinaiko Healthcare Consulting in Los Angeles California. She holds certifications from the AAPC as a CPC and CPC-I and from the...

Ken Huth has been shooting professionally for over twenty years and pushed the adoption of digital photography in Rochester, NY during the past nine years through seminars for his clients and via publications like Exploring Digital Photography. Hundreds of photographers enjoy Ken’s online audio show...

Dr. Ken Ruder received his Ph.D. from the University of Florida in 1969. Dr. Ruder spent 16 years at the Bureau of Child Research at the University of Kansas as a research associate and associate professor in Linguistics and Speech Pathology and Audiology. Dr. Ruder...

As a litigator, trial lawyer and counselor, Kenneth N. Rashbaum has been the trusted advisor to pharmaceutical and biotech companies, healthcare providers, health plans and multinational corporations on information governance and its compliance with federal, state, and international law, and the interface of electronic information...

Kenneth R. Besser, Noted attorney, has applied his years’ of experience in reading, understanding, explaining, and applying well-founded principles and practices in the heavily regulated medical industry to the similarly heavily regulated receivables industry. His development and issuance of this compliance program guidance for receivables...

Kenneth Engel, CPC, CHC, ACS-EM, CCP is Vice President, Corporate Compliance Officer, and a founding associate of Martin Gottlieb and Associates, a company which provides coding and billing services for emergency physicians who cover 48 emergency departments from six states.  The company also services hospitalists...

Kerry Weiner Elkind and Andy Elkind are the authors of Service To Sales: Changing Culture and Mindset in Your Call Center. Co-founders of The Elkind Group (TEG), Kerry and Andy have more than 25 years of telesales and call center experience. Through their custom learning...

Mr. Condon is a vice president at Vachette Pathology, which provides independent practice management services to 54 pathology groups nationwide. Condon has ten years experience in medical billing and collection. Prior to joining Vachette in January 2004, he worked as a practice manager for APS...

Kevin Lee, Did-it.com Executive Chairman From his co-founding the company in 1996 through his election to the presidency of SEMPO, the Search Engine Marketing Professional Organization, in 2005, Kevin Lee has shaped the success? Of both Did-it.com and the whole search engine marketing field. The...

Kevin Solinsky, CPC, CPC-I, CPC-ED, has been in healthcare for 26 years, holding positions in practice administration, HIPPA compliance, coding, billing and auditing. He is President of the Grand Canyon Coders/Phoenix, AZ. chapter of the AAPC. Solinsky's business, Healthcare Coding Consultants, LLC, provides professional coding...

Kim is an independent coding and reimbursement consultant, providing audit, training and oversight of coding and reimbursement functions for physicians.Kim completed three years of pre-medical education at the University of Alabama before she decided that she preferred the business side of medicine. She completed a...

Kim Warchol has been a licensed Occupational Therapist since 1989. She has specialized in dementia assessment and management and is founder of Dementia Care Specialists, Inc. Kim has presented hundreds of seminars on this topic and she has published numerous articles. Kim sat on the...

Kim Costello is a physician office manager with over 15 years experience in practice management. She is also a certified professional coder with experience in multi -specialties. Kim has also implemented practice management systems, performed chart audits, implemented EMR systems in multi-physician practices, and various...

Kimberly Branson has worked in healthcare for over 18 years and is currently employed with Nashville Oncology Associates as Coding and Billing Manager. Branson has performed coding and compliance training courses for physicians and is speaking at a national conference in the fall. She was also...

Kris Mastrangelo, President and CEO, has more than 14 years of experience in the long-term care industry. An Occupational Therapist degree from Tufts University followed by a Master's in Business Administration and Nursing Home Administrator's License affords Kris an in-depth perspective into the nursing home...

Kristi Stumpf MCS-P, CPC, COSC, ACS-OR has over 35 years experience in the Orthopedic Arena as a Navy Corpsman, Orthopedic Technologist, Limited Xray Technologist, Operating Room Technologist, Back Office Supervisor, Certified Coder and Coding and Compliance Supervisor for a multispecialty Orthopedic Practice.  Currently serving as...

Kristin Bell is an associate in the Seattle, Washington office of Jackson Lewis LLP. She is a graduate of the University of Washington, Seattle, Washington (B.A., 1998) and Seattle University School of Law (J.D., 2002). During law school, Bell interned with Drugstore.com Inc.  Since graduating...

Kristine Cuddy, CPC, CIMC, has more than 20 year’s experience in the medical field. She is a Healthcare Compliance Analyst for Michigan State University HealthTeam, provides independent consulting services, has been a speaker for Michigan State Medical Society, The Coding Institute, SuperCoder.com Webinars, and AAPC....