COMPREHENSIVE CODING & COMPLIANCE SOLUTIONS - Key Persons
Adrianne has over 16 years of revenue cycle leadership experience with top hospital and healthcare systems in the U.S. such as HCA, Houston Methodist Hospital, and Vanderbilt University Medical Center. She is a Certified Professional Coder (CPC), Certified Professional Compliance Officer (CPCO), and a Certified Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery Coder (CCVTC) through American Academy of Professional Coders (AAPC). Previously, she optimized coding strategies at Houston Methodist Cardiovascular Surgery Associates, which increased revenue by 5% totaling over $6 million per month. At Vanderbilt University Medical Center, she led a team of 18 medical coders in the Department of Anesthesia. She decreased departmental charge lag from 7-10 days to 3-5 days by implementing workflows that increased efficiency and decreased errors. Her expertise is in the following areas: referral coordination, insurance verification, managed care health plans, physician practice management, and coding leadership.
She is a graduate of Tennessee State University in Nashville, TN with a Bachelor of Business Administration concentration in Marketing. As an undergraduate student, she received a scholarship to study international economics abroad in Mandeville, Jamaica where she assisted local aspiring entrepreneurs with business plan development and acquisition of funding from financiers. She received a Master of Healthcare Administration from Texas Woman's University in Houston, TX. She was awarded a scholarship to study healthcare economics abroad in Stockholm, Sweden and Tallinn, Estonia where she dived deep into their socialist healthcare economic structures.