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Timothy P. O'Brien, Esq.

Website:  The Personal Branding Group

 

Tim O’Brien is a personal branding expert who knows what it takes to cut through all the noise and help members create a lasting impression with their target market -- doctors! He is the author of The Power of Personal Branding: Creating Celebrity Status with Your Target Audience. Tim is the President/CEO of The Personal Branding Group, Inc. In 2001, he created Rainmaker U., a coaching program that teaches top-level professionals how to position themselves as The Person to See™ with their target audience by creating a compelling personal brand and marketing that brand better than the competition. 

Prior to beginning his career as a personal branding specialist and public speaker, Tim operated a successful civil litigation law practice for over 10 years. With a strong desire to help others and share his techniques for professional growth, Tim honed his speaking skills delivering motivational speeches to prisoners inside California Youth Authority as part of his not-for-profit program, Living at the Peak.

Tim is also a medical biller, owning and operating a billing service for the past several years. He knows exactly what members face in positioning themselves to standout from the rest. Tim will speak to members about "Pitching the Benefits of Your Services" so that you can easily present the most pertinent information about your services to doctors in the way they need to hear it.

 

Keynote Speaker

Matthew D. Jones
Website: http://www.matthewdjones.com

Matt Jones was diagnosed with cancer on Sept. 11, 2002. After going into remission, the cancer came back a second and third time spreading to his brain. After slipping into a semi-coma, doctors did not think he would live. Against all odds, Matt recovered and went on to complete a marathon after re-learning how to walk. He is the author of “Going through Hell? Don’t Stop!”, “Life’s a Marathon” and “101 Timeless Truths.” Matt holds a BA in Communication and a Master’s Degree in Liberal Studies. He has shared his inspiring story across the country, and has spoken to over five hundred groups since his bone marrow transplant in 2004. Matt Jones is the next generation of professional speaking and his vibrant presentation is sweeping the nation. From his story, you will learn strategies to thrive in the midst of adversity and excel to new heights of performance. Matt’s talk increases levels of success both personally and professionally.

Matt will be presenting "Sales is a Marathon" - How to Stay Motivated in Sales." Be sure that your flight home doesn't take you away from the conference early! Matt is a highly motivational speaker that we're certain you will want to hear! We heard Matt's signature keynote address "Life's a Marathon" last year and he is a phenomenal speaker you simply cannot miss hearing. His message is not only timely, but it is heartwarming, too.

 

 

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Robert W. Liles, Esq.

Website:  www.lilesparker.com

 

Mr. Liles is principal shareholder of Liles Parker, PLLC, a Washington DC law firm. His practice handles health care fraud defense and regulatory matters, representing doctors and other health care providers both in civil and criminal proceedings. Before entering private practice, Robert served as Deputy Director for Leal Programs at the US Department of Justice, Executive Office for United States Attorneys. Prior to that, he was their first National Health Care Fraud Coordinator. Robert has taught and lectured at more than 50 national conferences and seminars to DOJ prosecutors, investigators, auditors, and industry representatives on a variety of civil and criminal fraud and regulatory issues. He serves as faculty for the Georgetown University/National Institute of Trial Advocacy. and and serves as the AMBA General Compliance Legal Counsel. Back by popular demand, Mr. Liles will provide the latest information on Recovery Audit Contractors (RACs) and compliance issues that AMBA members need to know.

 

 

 

Kathy Stull, CPC, CMRS

Website: http://www.superiorresources.info  

Kathy Stull, CPC, CMRS, is the owner of Superior Resources, Inc. Medical Coding and Billing.  She has over 25 years experience in the medical billing and coding industry, including 10years at Aetna where she was a claims processor, customer service representative, claims analyst, and CS supervisor.  She has worked for small private practices, as well as large hospital based physician networks as a biller, coder, trainer, and auditor.  Her company, Superior Resources, has been endorsed by the Lucas County Better Business Bureau and The Toledo Academy of Medicine. Ms. Stull writes the Coding Confidential column for Communique, the Toledo Academy of Medicine’s newsletter and is a popular speaker in the Toledo area as well as for AMBA.

Kathy will be presenting on ICD10 coding and implementation. Providers should be gearing up to make the change to ICD-10 effective Oct. 1, 2013. Implementation and use of this new code set will require you to go from the current 17,000 codes to more than 155,000 and the format will change from 5 all numeric digits to 7 alpha-numeric digits. Kathy is going to walk us through the least you need to know to begin the crossover to ICD-10.

 

 

Scott Henderson

Website: http://www.mtridgemedical.com  

 

Scott Henderson is a Sr. EDI Analysis and Messaging Analyst for the state of Utah. He has been involved in healthcare for the last twelve years, the last six years in his current position as Sr. EDI Analysis and Messaging Analyst for the state of Utah. Scott is a member of Wedi, X12 and HL7. He is currently serving on the claims workgroup, and the eligibility workgroup for both Wedi and X12 and help write the EDI standards.  Prior to entering his current position, he was involved with the 4010 (aka HIPAA) EDI conversion with the local Medicare carrier. Scott has worked as a software trainer and electronic claims support for two different practice management companies and is the owner of Mountain Ridge Medical Office Solutions, LLC.  

Learn what you can do now to prepare for 5010 EDI transactions. Scott will include information on the 5010 timeline with suggested goals leading up to the final conversion and an overview of the new billing rules and changes. Gain the information you need to judge payers, software vendors and clearinghouse readiness and implementation strategies. Learn monthly goals to help in becoming prepared to submit standard transactions by final date. Scott will also present a breakout session on the EDI transactions that billers should be using.

 

Keynote Speaker

 

Tammy Lovely, CPC, CPMA, CMRS, Director of Coding

Website:  http://www.aisi-med.com

 

As Director of Coding, Ms. Lovely oversees the Coding Department.  Lovely has been active in the medical billing field for over 15 years, she has been a member of the Apollo team for six years.  A member of both American Medical Billing Association and the Academy of Professional Coders and holds certificates in coding, medical auditing, medical reimbursement, and customer service.  In addition to teaching classes in Legal Issues in Medical Billing for Apollo University.  Tammy has extensive billing experience from having previously owning her own billing company. Tammy also is an officer on the American Medical Billing Association National Advisory Board.

Collection Law is a must for all Medical Billers and Coders to ensure all Federal and State guidelines are followed when trying to collect payment. Tammy's presentation is designed to give practice guidelines and rules for collecting payments from the patients. You'll learn about unfair practices, the Truth in Lending Act, about credit card liability, post dated checks, Fair Credit Reporting Act and Fair Credit Billing Act. You'll also learn about commonly made mistakes and the five common rules about collections. Legal Issues in Medical Billing: Collection Law is one session you won't want to miss.

 

 

Cyndee Weston, CPC, CMC, CMRS

Website:  http://www.ambanet.net/AMBA.htm


Cyndee Weston has been in the medical field for 30 years and is the Director of the American Medical Billing Association in Davis, Oklahoma. She is a member of the American Academy of Professional Coders,  and the National Association of Professional Women. Weston is a medical consultant specializing in compliance. She is a frequent webinar speaker for the AMBA and other organizations focused on compliance issues that affect healthcare providers and medical billers. Most importantly,  Weston has a passion for the medical billing industry and enjoys the reward associated with assisting the growth of billers. 

Weston will be presenting a breakout session on Electronic Health Records (EHR) and the Incentive Bonus. You'll learn the timeline for earning the incentive, who's eligible, how your providers can earn their share and what core set of meaningful use objectives must be met in order to demonstrate and report effective use of a qualifying EHR program.

 

R.L. “Ron” Ramsdell, PhD,; FACFEI; DABFE; CFC; LFMAAMA
Website:  http://www.maama.org

Dr “Ron” Ramsdell is President of MedCorp Compliance Network, a firm of specialists in healthcare practice compliance who serve physicians throughout the United States. Dr. Ramsdell holds the highest designations in his field as a Fellow of the American College of Forensic Examiners Institute, a Board Certified Diplomat of the American Board of Forensic Examiners and a Certified Forensic Consultant.  He is also one of the few non-attorney members of the American Health Lawyers Association and serves as Executive Director and Life Fellow of the M.A.A.M.A.

He has served as a compliance and documentation consultant to hundreds of practices of all healthcare disciplines and is frequently engaged by health care law attorneys for independent assessment of their clients Medicare/ Medicaid and overall compliance through comprehensive audit. Billing people and practitioners love his humor. Attorneys love his professionalism and forensic expertise. Carriers hate them both.

Dr. Ramsdell’s presentation, Billing Physical Therapy and Incident To, will focus on the routine bypass of therapy limitations, documentation that doesn't support medical necessity, billing therapy services as incident to plus much more! CMS auditors are not the only carriers hot on the trail for recovery of improperly paid therapy claims. You won't want to miss this session.

 

 

Kathy Stull, CPC, CMRS

Website: http://www.superiorresources.info

Kathy Stull, CPC, CMRS, is the owner of Superior Resources, Inc. Medical Coding and Billing.  She has over 25 years experience in the medical billing and coding industry, including 10years at Aetna where she was a claims processor, customer service representative, claims analyst, and CS supervisor.  She has worked for small private practices, as well as large hospital based physician networks as a biller, coder, trainer, and auditor.  Her company, Superior Resources, has been endorsed by the Lucas County Better Business Bureau and The Toledo Academy of Medicine. Ms. Stull writes the Coding Confidential column for Communique, the Toledo Academy of Medicine’s newsletter and is a popular speaker in the Toledo area as well as for AMBA.

Kathy will be presenting on Global Surgery Billing, which examines the services included in the global surgery package and the services that are not included, and how to tell the difference. Using the CPT manual, PFS Relative Value Files and NCCI, attendees will be shown how to determine if procedures are inclusive with each other, under what circumstances that can still be billed separately, whether an assistant can be billed, how to bill bilateral procedures and much more.  Pre-Operative, Intra-Operative Services and Post-Operative services are all examined in this informative breakout session.

 

 

Shelia Hokes, CMRS

Sheila Hokes is the President of Advanced Insurance Management, LLC, in Columbus, Ohio.  She is a consultant providing billing, auditing, practice management, compliance, credentialing, and continuing education for healthcare providers in numerous states for over 17 years.  She has served as an expert witness in the medical billing and consulting field. She has reviewed numerous cases and written expert witness letters, been deposed on several occasions, and has testified in court regarding various issues pertaining to the medical field. She is a CMRS and has been a member of AMBA since 2005. She is currently the secretary of the Central Ohio AMBA, and serves on the National Advisory Board for AMBA. Sheila also has a health and life insurance license in the State of Ohio and is currently a member of the Columbus Association of Health Underwriters (CAHU), the Ohio Association of Health Underwriters (OAHU), and the National Association of Health Underwriters (NAHU).  She is a co-chair for the OAHU PAC legislative committee. 

Sheila will present on "How to be an Expert Witness." Many of us have been asked to be a witness, but all too often, we decline because we worry about the risk and about making mistakes. Sheila will explain what you need to know to become an expert witness and she'll go over common pitfalls you can avoid.

 

Bonnie J. Flom, CMRS
Website: http://www.billingbuddies.com

Bonnie J. Flom began her healthcare career by working in the accounts receivables department at St. Joseph’s Medical Center on February 13, 1984. While working there, she served on the Blue Shield EDI committee, United Way Committee and Benedictine Mission Committee. After starting her billing agency, Rapid Return Medical Billing in 1994 quickly grew to employ 17 people at one time. In 2000, Bonnie J. Flom served Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota in testing their Optical Character Reader (OCR) which automatically converted paper claims to NSF files. In 2006, Bonnie J. Flom sold her shares of the Rapid Return Medical Billing, and spent two years writing the book Mastering Medisoft, which is used today in colleges to teach new medical billing students. In 2008, Bonnie joined a new company named Billing Buddies and a unique concept was born that allowed clinics and billers to become “buddies” in the billing processes. In 2009, Bonnie spoke for AMBA on the Daily Basics of Medical Billing. Bonnie is also a speaker for Senior Community Services presenting Navigating Medicare to the elderly. Bonnie recently earned her CMRS through AMBA.

Bonnie will co-present with Randi Tapio on the Things We Wished Someone Would Have Told Us Before Starting Our Own Companies." They will cover business organization, sales and marketing, the contract process, setting up a client and what to do when you lose a client. They will discuss Must Have contract wording and will provide you with a lot of great tips that will help prevent you from making their same mistakes. You'll learn everything they wished they had known up front.

 

 

 

Ranadene (Randi) Tapio, CMRS

Website: http://www.medibillpros.com

Ranadene Tapio is the President/CEO of MediBill Professionals in Sauk Rapids, MN. She holds her BS in HealthCare Administration and her CMRS from AMBA. She’s a past AMBA Member of the Year, Committee Chair, Forum Moderator and currently contributes regularly to the Ask the Experts for AMBA. She’s involved locally with the MN Psych Assoc, MN PT Assoc and MN Chiro Assoc, as well as the Central MN Clinic Administrators Group. In January 2010 she was named one of Central MN’s “5 Under 40” of young professionals in the community to keep an eye on for their local community and business involvement.

Randi will co-present with Bonnie Flom on the "Things We Wished Someone Would Have Told Us Before Starting Our Own Companies." They will cover business organization, sales and marketing, the contract process, setting up a client and what to do when you lose a client. They will discuss Must Have contract wording and will provide you with a lot of great tips that will help prevent you from making their same mistakes. You'll learn everything they wished they had known up front.

 

 

 

Robin Roach, CMRS, CHBME

Website:  http://www.healthdatawv.com/


Robin L. Roach, President, Health Data Solutions has previously managed two very successful medical billing companies utilizing her education and experience from her previous career in marketing with UPS. Robin has been a billing software reseller and end user as well as a frequent speaker for the AMBA, HBMA and medical societies and related conferences. She is a popular speaker because she always delivers solutions that work and information that billers can absolutely relate to. She's energetic and fun to listen to and sure to deliver tips you will put to use immediately.

Robin will present “How I Survived a Software Conversion." After 8 years with her old software, it became very apparent that it no longer suited the needs of her growing business, so she embarked on an exhaustive year-long search, looking at over 100 packages, demo-ing more than twenty programs, and finally making a purchasing decision. Her presentation will detail the search, and the selection criteria she used (worksheet). Robin will provide a real-life synopsis over the next six-months of her implementation. She tell you how she developed her implementation and conversion plan, how she trained her 30 clients, how she convinced the offices to do electronic charge capture thereby eliminating that data entry step, and what her end-results have been after 15 months. She will identify some of the pitfalls and unexpected setbacks she encountered as well. If you're planning to make a billing software change anytime soon, you won't want to miss hearing Robin.