With nearly 20 years of experience in healthcare heavily concentrated within medical coding and auditing, Angie brings a wealth of expertise to Pinnacle. Her depth of understanding and knowledge is extensive and spans multiple roles throughout her career at major medical systems and hospitals, as well as surgery centers and specialty providers. Having served as lead coder, auditor, coder/auditor trainer, and professional services supervisor, Angie has recruited, trained, developed, and managed professional teams.
As a Consultant, Angie leverages her impressive background to assist clients in developing highly efficient and effective coding and auditing teams and professional services departments while implementing educational tools and the latest software/systems. This includes system-wide education to ensure that medical staff, nursing teams, management, and support staff are up to date on the latest information and documentation improving hospital/system-wide consistency and compliance.
Throughout her career, Angie expanded her expertise across multiple modalities including Cardiology, Cardiac Surgery, OBGYN, Orthopedics, Pulmonology, Gastroenterology, Urology, Emergency, Family Medicine, Internal Medicine, Residency, Vascular Surgery, Neurology, Neurosurgery, General Surgery, Ambulatory Surgery, Outpatient Surgery, Rehabilitation, Ophthalmology, Family Medicine, Urgent Care, Oncology, Chemotherapy, Sports Medicine, Dental and more. Angie holds an Associates of Applied Science and is an AAPC Certified Coder, Auditor, and Trainer including ICD-10PCS and an EPIC Credentialed Trainer.