EPOCH HEALTH SOLUTIONS - Key Persons

Jean Russell has over thirty years of healthcare and information system experience. Her areas of expertise include the Medicare outpatient prospective payment systems (APCs, and APGs), as well as ICD-10-CM/PCS training, Charge Description Master (CDM), admission status reviews, and outpatient coding and compliance. She is a frequent speaker at the national, state and local levels for HFMA and AHIMA professional groups. Jean has her Masters from the University of Houston in Biomedical Engineering; her Bachelors from Colgate University in Biology; and her RHIT from the independent study program through the American Health Information Management Association. Jean is an AHIMA - approved ICD-10-CM/PCS Trainer.

With twenty years in healthcare consulting, Richard has developed an expertise in hospital outpatient and inpatient coding, admission criteria reviews, reimbursement and billing. His areas of expertise include reimbursement for the Medicare APCs and New York Medicaid APGs. Richard has extensive data analysis experience related to many aspects of revenue cycle management, including CDM reviews, billing recovery, and compliance issues. He has a B.A. from Hobart College, and is an AHIMA Certified Coding Specialist.