Malinda Stanley is the manager of provider outreach and education, government programs which includes Medicare, Medicaid and the Federal Employee Program. She has been a part-time instructor at Metro Community College for three years in the Health Information Management and Healthcare Business programs. Her previous...

Malinda Stanley holds credentials as a Registered Health Information Administrator (RHIA) from the American Health Information Management Association, a Certified Professional Coder (CPC) and Certified Professional Coding Instructor (CPC-I) from the American Academy of Professional Coders, and Certified ICD-10 Trainer from the American Health Information...

Marcella Bucknam, CPC, CCS-P, CPC-H, CCS, CPC-P has been working in health information management for 18 years including 5 years as a coding instructor for a health care college.  She is an approved coding instructor and has helped hundreds of coders become certified. Bucknam is...

Margaret Morford is President for The HR Edge, Inc., an international management consulting and training company.  Her clients have included Lockheed Martin, Chevron, Time Warner, Sara Lee Foods, Home and Garden Television, Nationwide Insurance, NAPA Auto Parts, New York Presbyterian Hospital (Cornell & Columbia Medical...

Marge McQuade, CMSCS, CMM, is a certified medical manager and a certified multi-specialty coder who has over 30 years experience in the medical field as an office manager and coder with more than half that time in the Mental Health field.  She is an instructor...

Margi Brown, RHIA, CCS, CCS-P, CPC...

Margie Dana is a former print buyer who turned her passion for printing into a print consulting business. She writes her weekly e-newsletter, Dana’s Print Tips, to help build bridges between print customers and the industry. Today it's read worldwide by thousands of subscribers in...

Margie Scalley Vaught, CPC, CPC-H, CPC-I, CCS-P, PCE, MCS-P, ACS-EM, ACS-OR With over 28+ years experience in the Healthcare arena, in positions from nurse’s aide to ward clerk and medical transcriptionist to office manager, Margie understands how offices are structured.  Twenty of those years were spent...

Marianne Harper is the owner of “The Art of Practice Management”, a dental practice management consulting company. Her career in dentistry spans almost thirty years.  Marianne’s specialties in her consultancy are: front desk systems, business forms, the implementation of systems to lower accounts receivable, and...

Marilyn Mines RN, BC, RAC-CT, brings over 40 years of experience as a practicing Registered Nurse to her role as Manager of Clinical Services for FR&R. While working with clients, she has been instrumental in preparations for JCAHO, Public Health and Public Aid inspections, and...

Mark Sharp, BKD’s Home Care & Hospice Center of Excellence Coordinator, has more than 15 years of experience assisting home care and hospice providers with audits, strategic planning, accounting, cost reports, projections, operating budgets, corporate integrity, agency start-up and mergers and acquisitions. His services include...

Mark Kander, MHA, has been the director of Medicare and Medicaid and then director of health care regulatory analysis since 1990 in the Government Relations and Public Policy Division of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA).  ASHA is a professional association representing audiologists and speech-language pathologists. ...

Titanic Lessons for IT Projects is from the “Lessons from History” series. As the author behind the series, Mark Kozak-Holland brings years of experience as a consultant who helps Fortune-500 companies formulate projects that leverage emerging technologies. Since 1985 he has been straddling the business...

Marsha Cayford has 30 years of affordable housing experience and has been with Quadel Consulting Corporation for fourteen years. Cayford has served as interim executive director of various PHAs, as part of an overall effort to turnaround troubled public housing and voucher program operations. She...

Marsha Lindquist is one of the most positive entrepreneurs and professional women speakers in the United States today.  Marsha is an inspiring communicator changing the way we look at business.  Whatever the issues are relating to creating a profitable and positive work environment, Marsha finds...

Martha Lanier is the president of the Georgia Chapter of the National Speakers Association.  Woman’s Day magazine has featured her as one of fifty fearless women over fifty.  Martha owns her own company, IGNITE Your Potential, Inc., where she works with businesses and individuals to...

Martin A. Corry, has a background in strategic planning, development and implementation of program initiatives related to health care financing and quality. Before joining Buchanan, Martin was the special assistant to the administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), where he facilitated...

Marty Kotlar, DC, CHCC, CBCS, is the President of Target Coding. Kotlar owned and operated a successful chiropractic practice for 12 years and multi-specialty practice for 4 years. He began consulting in 1992 with a special emphasis on CPT coding, billing, reimbursement, documentation and compliance for...

Marv Shepherd earned his B.S. in biology (1969) from Michigan Technological University, a B.S. in pharmacy from Ferris State University (1975), M.S. from the University of Rhode Island (1978) and Ph.D. from Purdue University (1980). In 1969, he received a commission in the U.S. Army...

Marvel J. Hammer, RN, CPC, CCS-P, PCS, ACS-PM, CHCO, is an accomplished professional considerable years of experience both in the business and medical fields. As owner of MJH Consulting and a coding, billing and compliance consultant, she provides documentation, coding and account receivable auditing and...

Mary Curry Narayan is a clinical nurse specialist in home health nursing and a transcultural nurse specialist, with more than 25 years experience in home health and cross-cultural health care. Narayan received her BSN from Cornell University’s New York Hospital School of Nursing and her...

Mary Michal is a shareholder in the Health Care Department of Reinhart Boerner Van Deuren s.c. in Madison, Wisconsin, where she Co-Chairs the law firm's Hospice & Palliative Care Practice Group, and has practiced law since 1977.  Mary is a national authority on hospice, palliative...

Mary Compton, PhD, CPC, is the editorial director for Eli Research and The Coding Institute and is responsible for the company's international team of writers and content providers. During the past 10 years, Mary has directed editorial teams covering medical coding, health policy, and post-acute...

Mary Falbo, CEO & Founder of Millennium Healthcare Consulting, Inc.®, and her team of professionals have over 25 years of experience in the industry with a focus on physician compliance, coding, billing, and reimbursement issues. We help our clients identify, plan and implement the best...

Mary Ellen Conway is the president of Capital Healthcare Group, LLC (CHG), a healthcare consulting firm specializing in providing expert consultants and teams who work with providers to achieve excellent outcomes. Conway is a nurse with more than 23 years of expertise in management throughout...

Mary J. Kroohs, PT, CWS, graduated from Northeastern University with a BS in PT.  She has been a physical therapist for 36 years.  During that time, Kroohs worked in the home health, inpatient rehab, and acute care settings.  Currently, Kroohs is the supervisor for acute...

Bowers is vice president of the consulting division of ELM Services and is accomplished at analyzing operations and growth opportunities for hospitals and physician practices. She is a frequent speaker at national and regional oncology meetings on a broad range of topics: billing and coding, and reimbursement...

Matthew Macomber, CIH, MS, is an industrial hygienist specialist in the MIOSHA General Industry Safety and Health Division. Previous to this, Matt was an industrial hygienist in the chemical industry. He has over 15 years of experience in regulatory compliance, consulting and the chemical industry....

Maurice A. Ramirez, DO, BCEM CNS, CMRO, is the founder and president of consulting firm High Alert, LLC. He serves on expert panels for pandemic preparedness and healthcare surge planning with congressional and cabinet members. Board-certified in multiple specialties, Dr. Ramirez is founding chairperson of...

Maxine Lewis, CMM, CPC, CCS-P, is the owner of Medical Coding & Reimbursement Management in Cincinnati, Ohio and has been in the Healthcare industry for more than 39 years. She is the author of “Working with Insurance and Managed Care Plans” and “Medicare Rules and Regulations”...

Mel Kleiman, CSP...

Melanie Witt, RN, CPC, COBGC, MA is an independent coding education consultant and a well-known speaker and recognized expert in the area of coding and reimbursement for ob-gyn services. She is the former program manager of the Department of Coding and Nomenclature at the American...

Melanie Maycock,CASC, CCA, has 15 years experience in ASC billing coding and contracting as well as 10 years experience in ASC consulting. Having worked on both the Free-standing ASC, Hospital Surgery Center and physician sides, her experience and knowledge can help providers when reporting the...

Melissa Sinclair, CPC, has managed both pathology and general surgery practices including coding, billing and reimbursement issues for the past seven years. She currently manages the clinical business of the University of Colorado’s department of pathology. Sinclair has also worked as a consultant and presenter...

Merit SmithVice PresidentDirector, Health Care PracticeRobert E. Nolan CompanyMerit Smith is a Vice President, Health Care Director for the Robert E. Nolan Company. In this position, he brings a depth of experience, a strategic viewpoint, and a broad network of contacts throughout the health care...

Merrilee Severino, CPC, CMM, is a consultant with more than 18 years of physician office experience in various specialties. Certified in both coding and medical management, she founded MS Physician Practice Management and Revenue Consultants, Corp (www.yourbusinessmedic.com) in 2007 and currently sits on the advisory...

Michael Roach, Esq., has been practicing law as a health care attorney for 18 years. Previously, he was a health care administrator and also conducted health services research. His firm handled the first settlement in the country with the OIG and the Department of Justice...

Dr. Astion is currently a clinical pathologist who is a Professor and Director of Reference Laboratory Services in the University of Washington Department of Laboratory Medicine.  He was an undergraduate at Cornell University and received his M.D. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Pennsylvania...

Michael Silverman, D.Md, DDOCS, DICOI, is globally recognized as a top dental innovator, educator and advocate for patients’ rights. Through his stewardship of the Dental Organization for Conscious Sedation, known as DOCS (www.DOCSeducation.com), Dr. Silverman has brought oral sedation dentistry to the forefront of dental...

Michael Sullivan, CHC, is the managing director of revenue cycle services at Sinaiko Healthcare Consulting, Inc. Sullivan leverages more than a decade of experience in healthcare operations to oversee the firm’s revenue cycle consulting services. He is HCCA certified and provides a strong mix of...

Michael S. Miller DO, FACOS, FAPWCA, CWS is Certified in Chronic Wound Management and Board Certified in General Surgery.   He has Wound Healing Centers located in Bedford, and Indianapolis, Indiana.  Dr, Miller has written numerous articles and book chapters on topics related to Chronic Wounds...

Michael A. Ferragamo, Jr., MD, FACS is the former chief of urology of Hempstead Medical Center and of Franklin Medical Center of Long Island, New York, and presently is assistant clinical professor of urology, State University of New York, Stony Brook School of Medicine. Starting...

Michael A. Granovsky, MD, CPC, FACEP, is vice president of MRSI (Medical Reimbursement Systems), an industry-leading emergency medicine coding and billing company. He is a board-certified practicing emergency medicine physician and a certified coder. Dr. Granovsky is a nationally recognized expert in emergency medicine coding...

Michael J. Kasher, MPA, CMPE, has more than 22 years of experience as a medical practice administrator. He is a past president and board member of the Nebraska Medical Group Management Association. Currently he is serving as director of surveys for the Medical Group Management...

Michael T. Ferris is managing principal for Home Care and Hospice Marketing Solutions in Chapel Hill, NC. Ferris is a featured speaker at more than 100 national, state regional and corporate conferences and meetings. Ferris is a national expert in the areas of marketing and customer...

Ms. Miller has been with Vachette Pathology Services since 2005. She comes to them bringing 20+ years experience in the health care industry having worked with insurance carriers, hospitals, and medical billing agencies. She is currently a Senior Practice Manager at Vachette Pathology and manages...

Michelle Dunn, author of an award winning book has spent the last 18 years stepping into dangerous debt collection potholes.  She shares her hard-won expertise on debt collection with the titles in her “Collecting Money Series.” She is the founder and president of Never Dunn...

Michelle Enger, MBA is the CEO and founder of Optimal Reimbursement Strategies, LLC, (www.optimalreimbursementstrategies.com) which is a company that specializes in home health reimbursement. She formed Optimal Reimbursement Strategies, LLC after observing the need for home health agencies to be fully reimbursed for services they...

Mick Raich, owner of Vachette Pathology, is a national leader in pathology management services. His company provides practice management services to over 50 pathology practices nationwide, helping them increase their bottom line by renegotiating managed care contracts, changing billing firms and auditing billing practices. Raich...

Twenty years in the field of training and keynote speaking. This is how Mike Scott developed the information you can use to enhance the productivity of your employees and company - immediately.   Scott believes that when you hear him, you will get information that has...

Mike Matalone is an author, speaker, and a Principal of PI Midlantic, a management consulting firm that provides clients with “how to” strategies that improve selection, development, and retention using the Predictive Index (PI), a unique tool for predicting behavior that is used by executives...

Mike Watson has 20 years experience in Information Technology, and 15 years as a consultant, specializing in project management training.  Watson started a training and consultancy business which went on to win the Unisys/Computer Weekly Training Award in 1994, for most innovative training program.  Watson...

Mike Byam is the Executive Managing Partner of Terryberry Company, an international firm specializing in employee recognition systems.  The Terryberry Company has been an innovator and leader in the recognition industry since 1918, working with clients in 20 countries and six continents.  Mike has presented...

Milton Zelermyer, JD, joined The Legal Aid Society’s Prisoners’ Rights Project as a staff attorney in 1992, after three years in the Criminal Appeals Bureau. He is counsel in Inmates of New York State with HIV v. Pataki, et al. (90-cv-252, NDNY), a federal class action...

Mims Wright brings 15 years of travel industry experience in both domestic and international business development, from planning to implementation to funding.   Wright is known for his ability to help travel companies develop the business models necessary to accelerate them into the changing market trends....

Monica DuBois, RHIA, is currently the managing consultant of RPM (Revenue, Process, Management) Solutions.  The company is currently serving clients in the areas of electronic health record implementation, document imaging, process evaluation, interim management, documentation improvement, and PPS/coding education.Previously DuBois was with 3M HIS for...