About Barb Pierce

Barb Pierce, CCS-P, ACS-EM is the Coding and Reimbursement Director with Professional Management Midwest, Inc. Barb has extensive knowledge in the areas of coding and billing. Her strengths include an extensive knowledge of CPT and ICD-9 coding as it is applied in a medical office. She is often asked to perform compliance audits and evaluations for practices and clinics of various specialties. Barb has worked with a variety of clients performing medical record reviews and education.

As a presenter for ongoing chart auditing workshops sponsored by Decision Health, she has become a recognized national speaker on the CMS/AMA documentation guidelines. Most recently, she has developed the ACS-EM certification exam and study guide for the Board of Advanced Medical Coding, where she also serves as the E/M advisor to the Board.

Partial List of Recent Presentations:

Chart Auditing 101 and Chart Auditing and Beyond, Decision Health (multiple locations and dates) past seven years

National Summit, United Communications Group, October 2003, September, 2004, and scheduled for September 2005

Audio conferences on Auditing, United Communications Group, fall, 2003 and 2004

Coding Update 2005, Iowa Medical Society and various clients and physician organization groups

Coding Pearls, Nebraska Academy of Family Physicians, Omaha, March, 2003 Jazz Up Your Coding, Iowa Medical Society, Des Moines, Fall, 2003 Coding and Auditing Seminars for AANP National Conferences, past 5 years Teaching Physician Rules, UCG, March, 2004

Coding, Billing and Reimbursement for NP's, Michigan Council of Nurse Practitioners, March, 2005

8th Annual Non-Physician Practitioner Conference, UCG, April and October, 2004 Iowa Nurse Practitioner Society, Fall meetings since 2001 IOMA, Spring conferences past four years, physician education

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