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Laura Gerovac, PT, RHIT, CCS, CSTR, CAISS Laura Gerovac is a Trauma Registrar at Froedtert Hospital, a Level One Trauma Center in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and a frequent contributor to online learning courses with Libman Education. Laura graduated from Marquette University with a Bachelor of Science in Physical Therapy and worked for many years in outpatient orthopedics with a focus on providing work injury rehabilitation and prevention services. During her experience using and creating health information as a physical therapist, Laura observed the enormous impact health information has on the delivery and quality of health care services. Laura returned

Marcy Garuccio, ACS-AN, CANPC, CPMA, CPC, SME, AAPC Fellow Marcy Garuccio has a career that spans more than 30 years and is built on a strong anesthesia foundation. Marcy is the owner of Advanced Medical Practice Management, LLC, offering consultation, coding, auditing, documentation compliance, and revenue cycle review and recommendations. She is also the Director of Anesthesia Coding and Documentation Compliance for Medi-Corp. For 20 years she was the president of Health Care Billing Associates, an organization that began as a medical billing service for anesthesia practices and grew to include other physician and surgical specialties. In her

Sandy L. Macica, MS, RHIA, CCS Sandy L. Macica is the former Director of Educational Content for Libman Education. Sandy is an experienced educator and coder with particular experience in developing online training for hospital coders in ICD-10-CM, ICD-10-PCS, and CPT® coding as well as coding certification exam preparation. Sandy is an enthusiastic presenter on all things coding and often speaks on complex coding topics for professional organizations and healthcare clients. Sandy is a long-time member of New York HIMA and was honored to receive the NYHIMA Distinguished Member Award in 2018. Courses available

Cynthia Tang, RHIA, CCS Cynthia brings over 30 years of experience in health information management, coding and clinical documentation, and clinical resource management. For the past twenty years she has traveled to hospitals throughout the country to assess their processes for managing health information and clinical documentation and to provide her much-sought after expertise in redesigning operations to promote better patient care and hospital financial health. Together with Dr. Pinson, Cynthia received the 2023 AHIMA Triumph Award in the Influencer Category for her work on the CDI Pocket Guide®. Her focus is on workflow design and improving clinical

Dr. Richard Pinson, MD, FACP, CCS Dr. Richard Pinson is a physician, educator, administrator, and healthcare consultant. He practiced Internal Medicine and Emergency Medicine in Tennessee for over 20 years having board certification in both. Dr. Pinson is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians and former Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine at Vanderbilt, and has assisted hospitals as a physician consultant for the past ten years. Together with Cynthia Tang, Dr. Pinson received the 2023 AHIMA Triumph Award in the Influencer Category for his work on the CDI Pocket Guide®. His personal understanding of the mindset

Alice Marie Reybitz, RN, BA, CPC, COC, CPC-I, CCS-P Alice Marie Reybitz is an experienced medical coding instructor and has served as a billing and coding program director, a billing supervisor, a billing office manager, and a clinical coordinator. Alice has written articles published in the Advanced Journal of Health Information Management and has reviewed two coding textbooks used nationally for coding education. Alice is often called on to speak at national meetings on topics in nursing, coding, and insurance. Alice is the author of Libman Education’s course Injection and Infusion Coding for Facilities.

Joan L. Usher, BS, RHIA, HCS-D, ACE Joan is President of JLU Health Record Systems, a leader in Health Information Management and coding solutions. A nationally recognized expert in the field of health information management, Joan has taught coding for over 25 years and has educated over 20,000 people nationwide. She is author of the JLU Rapid Reference Coding Guide, an easy-to-use coding guide in ICD-10 for common home health diagnoses, and author or editor of numerous courses, books and articles on coding, reimbursement methods, clinical documentation improvement, and health record requirements. Courses available by Joan:

Annie Barnaby, CPC, CPCO, CDEO, CRC, CASCC Annie Barnaby dedicates her time to the professional development, education, and career counseling of medical coders and HIM professionals. Annie began her professional journey when she earned her Bachelor of Science degree in Health Policy and Administration as a student at The Pennsylvania State University. She earned her first coding certification in 2005, and has enjoyed a rich coding career ever since, in medical coding and billing, recruiting, training, education, and management of medical coding teams. Annie currently works as a medical coding physician educator. She can be reached at Annie.barnaby@outlook.com

Linda Hyde, RHIA Linda Hyde is a consultant currently participating in projects related to electronic data collection for performance measurement and other initiatives. As a terminology analyst for these projects she regularly works with various classification and terminology systems including ICD9, ICD10, RxNorm, LOINC and SNOMED CT. She has extensive knowledge of data standards and data quality and regularly speaks and publishes on these topics. Linda has served as chair and member of the AHIMA Classification and Terminology and the Quality Measurement and Secondary Data Use practice councils, member of the AHIMA Enterprise Information Management as well as

Victoria Jennings, RHIA, CCS, CPC, AAPC-Approved Instructor Victoria is the new acquisitions/new provider Coding Educator with Millennium Physician Group, a large multispecialty physician group with over 500 providers throughout the state of Florida. She has worked in the Education field as a Program Director for an RHIT and Coding Diploma program and was responsible for their accreditation with CAHIIM. Vicki enjoyed a role within compliance with Lee Health as a compliance investigator and external Audit Coordinator. She has also worked as an outpatient and inpatient coder for the hospital side as well as a Profee coder and educator

Rebecca Harmon, MPM, RHIA, CCA Rebecca is an experienced health care professional, educator and academic consultant with expertise in course and program development, training/education and career coaching and mentoring. She blogs regularly for Libman Education and is the author of Discover Your Path:  A Map to Job Happiness. Rebecca returned to HIM practice in a leadership role after spending many years as an HIM educator. Tapping her broad history of diverse healthcare experience that began with a tour of duty in the U.S. Navy, she writes regularly and speaks on education, workforce issues, management and life. An energetic and engaging

Laurie M. Johnson, MS, RHIA, FAHIMA Laurie M. Johnson is a senior consultant at Revenue Cycle Solutions, LLC, a revenue cycle consulting firm specializing in revenue cycle assessments and work plan implementation; interim management with focus on process improvement; and revenue cycle education for hospitals and physician practices. Laurie is a past president of PHIMA and author of clinical coding articles for Journal of AHIMA and ICD-10 Monitor.

Lisa Eramo, MA Lisa A. Eramo is a journalist who has written about HIM for more than a decade. “I enjoy writing about healthcare—and specifically HIM—because it touches everyone. Accurate health information is critical to ensuring positive outcomes and addressing disparities. I strive to highlight HIM professionals who are passionate about telling the patient’s story. My mission is also to shine a light on the important work of HIM, the challenges HIM professionals face, and the opportunities created by thoughtful and innovative HIM professionals nationwide.” Lisa studied creative writing at Hamilton College and obtained a master’s degree in

Kelly McLendon, RHIA, CHPS Kelly is a well-known consultant and industry expert in patient privacy and security, with specific subject matter expertise in the areas of artificial intelligence, privacy incident, detection and automation. He is also an industry expert in legal health records, HIM operations, electronic document management, and EHR project planning. He is a frequent industry speaker and authored a book for AHIMA titled The Legal Health Record: Regulations, Policies and Guidelines. Kelly received the AHIMA Triumph Award in Innovation in 2015, the FHIMA Distinguished Member Award in 2008, and the AHIMA Visionary Award in 2003.

Nirmala Sivakumar, CCS, CDIP Nirmala Sivakumar is an IRF Coding Educator based in PA. She has created and presented many webinars and workshops on IRF coding and improving clinical documentation. She has trained and mentored many rehab coders. She also has experience in conducting coding audits. She enjoys sharing her expertise and knowledge and has a desire to help coders and PPS Coordinators overcome the challenges of IRF PPS coding. She has held previous positions as Health Information Management Supervisor for one of HealthSouth’s (Encompass) acute inpatient rehab hospital and as a HIM Coding Consultant at Uniform Data

Kim Huey, MJ, CHC, CPC, CCS-P, PCS, CPCO, COCAs owner of KGG Coding and Reimbursement Consulting, LLC, Kim Huey 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 Bachelor’s degree in Health Care Management and went on to obtain certification through AAPC and AHIMA. Recognizing the important position of compliance in today’s environment, she has obtained certification as a Certified Professional Compliance Officer and