ACDIS Advisory Board Biographies
ACDIS advisory board Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
ACDIS advisory board qualifications, responsibilities
Nomination and elections process
Banet has more than 17 years of experience as a nurse, mentor, and leader with clinical experience in critical care and home health. Her CDI experience includes the implementation of new CDI programs, managing a multi-facility program, and CDI software implementation. Her area of focus is staff and physician education with an emphasis on engagement and alignment. Her experience in the area of case management includes development of infrastructure and processes associated with care coordination in the areas of utilization review, discharge planning, to include transitions of care post discharge..
Banet earned a certificate in coding technology from Indiana University in 2009 and a Bachelor of nursing degree from Indiana University in 1995. An ACDIS member since 2008, she is the founder and current president of the Kentucky/Southern Indiana ACDIS chapter growing its membership to more than 70 professionals in under two years. She also served on the 2011 ACDIS National Conference Planning Committee. She received the ACDIS 2012 CDI Professional Achievement award.
Elected to board in 2012; serving through end of 2014.
Susan Belley, M.Ed., RHIA, CPHQ
Project Manager
3M HIS Consulting Services
Atlanta, GA
sebelley@mmm.com
A project manager within 3M HIS, Belley has more than 30 years experience in HIM performing a variety of roles in academic medical centers, multi-hospital systems, and teaching institutes ranging from 200 to 1,300 beds. She has direct experience in managing coding and data abstraction, auditing, accounts receivable (A/R), case mix index management, clinical documentation improvement, corporate compliance, quality management, converting computer systems (transcription, coding, and master patient index), and electronic medical record implementation.
Belley is responsible for development of new service offerings and content development for educational programs and software for 3M HIS Consulting. These include the ICD-10 Claims Impact Analysis, ICD-10 Modeling and Translation Services, ICD-10 Comprehensive Assessment and Roadmap Service, ICD-10 Documentation Assessment Service, and Clinical Documentation Improvement System software and data monitoring tools. These tools provide comprehensive case mix index and profiling analysis to assist hospitals in improving quality outcomes, ensuring the accuracy of performance reports, and achieving appropriate reimbursement.
Belley has taught coding for 20 years (ICD-9-CM, CPT-4 in an accredited HIM program) and is an experienced coding auditor for inpatient services. She holds a post-graduate certificate in Healthcare Corporate Compliance from George Washington University in Washington, DC.
Elected to board in 2012; serving through end of 2014.
Timothy N. Brundage, MD
Physician Champion
Kindred Hospital North Florida District
St. Petersburg, FL
DrBrundage@gmail.com
Dr. Brundage has served as the medical director for case management and CDI departments for Kindred Hospital Central Tampa since 2004 and became the physician champion for its north and central districts in 2008.
At Kindred, he acts as a liaison between the case management department and the attending physician and helps to render opinions regarding admission status based on Interqual criteria and sound medical judgment. In addition, Dr. Brundage reviews patient charts selected for Medicare audits and prepares for admission audits and RAC record reviews.
Dr. Brundage is in active practice as a hospitalist at St. Petersburg (FL) General Hospital where he teaches resident physicians through daily hospital rounds, reviews their documentation, proofs their dictated history and physicals, discharge summaries, and progress notes. He is also a Diplomat of the American Board of Internal Medicine.
Elected to board in 2012; serving through end of 2014.
Donald Butler, RN, BSN
CDI Manager
Vidant Medical Center
Greenville, NC
dbutler@vidanthealth.com
Butler serves as manager of the 10 member CDI team at Vidant Medical Center in Greenville NC, an 860 bed tertiary care center serving the eastern third of North Carolina. He also leads networking efforts with the four other individual CDS?s at Vidant Health hospitals. Butler served 11 years as a US Navy Nurse with a broad variety of clinical experiences, including Labor & Delivery, Hem/Onc, ED, and primary care. He has served in several leadership roles, including department head for an OB/Peds clinic, performance improvement, and as a JCAHO Coordinator, as well as program development such as annual school physical program, standardizing asthma and ADD care, ED case management, and CDI.
Butler is actively involved with CDI through presentations locally and nationally, participating with CDI Week development, and is an active contributor on ACDIS Blog and CDI Talk. He was honored as the 2011 CDI Professional of the Year by ACDIS.
Elected to board in 2013; serving through end of 2015.
 Cheryl Ericson, MS, RN, CCDS, CDI-P, AHIMA Approved ICD-10-CM/PCS Trainer
CDI Education Director
HCPro, Inc.
Danvers, MA
cericson@hcpro.com
Ericson is the CD Education Director for HCPro, Inc., in Danvers, MA. Previously she served as Manager of Clinical Documentation Integrity (CDI) for the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) in Charleston, SC from May 2008 through March 2012. In November of 2009 she also assumed the role of manager of Utilization Review (UR) at MUSC. In January 2011, the core measures abstracting staff joined the CDI department. Ericson was the recipient of a Pillar Award as the “Finance Leader of the Quarter” during her first year at MUSC for her work in reorganizing the CDI department. She holds a B. S. in Health and Human Development and M. S. in Health Education from Penn State and became a registered nurse in 1998. She has an extensive background in adult education, data analysis, healthcare revenue cycle, and CMS guidelines.
Ericson was a member of the 2010 American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) CDI work group. She contributed to the development of the CDI tool kit and co-authored the AHIMA 2010 CDI practice brief. Prior to joining the advisory board, Ericson served on the ACDIS 2010 CDI workgroup. She teaches the ACDIS sponsored CDI Boot Camp and ICD-10 for CDI Boot Camp.
Robert S. Gold, MD
CEO
DCBA, Inc.
Atlanta, Georgia
DCBAInc@cs.com
Dr. Gold has more than 40 years of experience as a physician, medical director and consultant. A graduate of Hahnemann Medical College in Philadelphia, he trained in General Surgery in the U.S. Navy where he spent his professional career as a practicing surgeon. Since leaving the service, he has worked as a consultant in the fields of Managed Care Medicine, Locum Tenens, Home Health, Hospital accreditation and licensure and, most notably over the past 15 years, in education of physicians, nurses, and HIM professionals regarding documentation, coding and billing accuracy (DCBA) for healthcare services.
Dr. Gold is known nationally for his education regarding the clinical orientation of coding in AHIMA teleconferences and at the National Conferences on aspects of clinical coding. He has spoken at National and State level HFMA and HCCA meetings on the participation of medical staff in programs of documentation improvement. His monthly articles in HCPro publications have enjoyed success with all who read them. His contributions of Clinically Speaking articles in Briefings on Coding Compliance Strategies have been valuable to coding professionals and his A Minute for the Medical Staff articles in Medical Records Briefing have demonstrated value to the documentation practices of medical staff members.
Dr. Gold is a co-founder of DCBA, Inc, a consulting company that provides physician to physician programs in clinical documentation improvement for the purposes of properly reflecting disease processes in inpatient and outpatient medical records so that proper and accurate code sets can be applied. Several of their clients have already been nationally celebrated for measures of quality that are calculated from MedPar data.
Dr. Gold was re-elected to the advisory board in January 2011 after completing a three-year term of service from October 2007 through December 2010.
Elected to board in 2011; serving through end of 2013
Sylvia Hoffman, RN, CCDS, CCDI, CDIP
President, CEO, Sylvia Hoffman CDI Consulting
Tampa, FL
sylvia@sylviahoffman.com sylvia@sylviahoffman.com
Hoffman served as a clinical documentation specialist in a 1,000 bed teaching hospital in Tampa, Fla., before starting her own Tampa-based CDI consulting practice. She worked as an educational consultant for documentation integrity with DocuComp, LLC, and was employed as a senior associate in the Forensic Division at KPMG, providing clinical documentation education and retrospective record reviews for compliance, integrity, and quality throughout the south east. Has 15 years acute care-hospital experience and 10 years of case management experience.
Hoffman presently serves as an adjunct educator for HCPro in the areas of CDI and ICD-10, teaching boot camps and providing on-line educational seminars. She is a past-president of the Florida ACDIS regional chapter and was a co-author of the HCPro book The Clinical Documentation Specialists Guide to ICD-10.
Elected to board in 2013; serving through end of 2015.
Walter Houlihan, MBA, RHIA, CCS
Baystate Health
Springfield, MA
Walter.Houlihan@baystatehealth.org
Houlihan has worked in the HIM field for over 30 years, initially coding medical records at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, NYC in the 1970's, then overseeing physician documentation in medical records at academic teaching facilities in NYC and Chicago. Fourteen years ago he came to Baystate Health, an integrated health care system comprised of three hospitals and over 50 ambulatory sites. At Baystate Health Houlihan has assisted with developing a CDI program that has improved the quality of documentation and subsequently administrative data. Baystate Health received numerous national quality awards, most notably being recognized as a top 60 medical center in the U.S. from Reuters and Leapfrog. Financial improvements were also an outcome from improved quality data.
Houlihan promotes collaboration with the hospitalists and entire medical staff which includes providing ongoing clinical documentation improvement education to attendings and residents. He led the effort to prepare Baystate Health for ICD-10 and plans to start the process of dual coding of ICD-9 and ICD-10. Houlihan has spoken at numerous association meetings and conferences on the importance of improving clinical documentation, most importantly for the continuity of quality patient care and an accurate representation of hospital and provider patient care services. He enjoys the collaboration between ACDIS professionals at meetings in the New England and New York City areas.
Elected to board in 2013; serving through end of 2015.
Fran Jurcak, RN, MSN, CCDS
Director, CDI Practice
Huron Healthcare
Chicago, IL
fjurcak@huronconsultinggroup.com
Jurcak has more than 25 years of experience as a nurse, nursing professor, and consultant, with clinical experience in critical care and emergency medicine. Currently a director in the CDI Practice at Huron Healthcare, Jurcak has helped implement CDI programs in more than 50 hospitals in the past five years. Prior to joining Huron Healthcare, Jurcak was a project manager for J. A. Thomas & Associates providing clients with assessment of CDI opportunities, implementation of CDI programs, and ongoing CDI education and program support.
Her expertise encompasses utilizing outcome data to mentor and train staff in providing strategic direction and application. Jurcak taught as an assistant professor of nursing at Madonna University in Livonia, MI, for more than 15 years, and earned recognition as ?Faculty Advisor of the Year? in 2006.
Jurcak obtained her CCDS in 2009. She is the author of The CCDS Exam Study Guide, serves on the CCDS Exam Advisory Board, and is a member of the Michigan chapters of ACDIS and HFMA.
Elected to board in 2012; serving through end of 2014
Trey La Charité, MD
Physician Advisor Clinical Documentation Integrity Project
University of Tennessee Medical Center
Knoxville, TN
CLachari@mc.utmck.edu
Dr. La Charité is the physician advisor for the Clinical Documentation Integrity Project at the University of Tennessee Medical Center. In this role, he has helped a 500-bed academic medical center increase the overall case mix index by more than two tenths through continuous medical staff and resident education regarding quality data management and outcomes measurement. Dr. La Charité also serves as the physician advisor for coding where his responsibilities include the formulation of all RAC appeals that involve coding and documentation issues as well as coder education bridging the gaps between ICD-9-CM, patho-physiology, and clinical practice.
Dr. La Charité is board certified in Internal Medicine and a practicing hospitalist since completion of his residency in 2002. He attended medical school at the University of Kentucky and completed residency training in Internal Medicine at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville. Dr. La Charité began his post graduate career in the Department of Internal Medicine at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville as a teaching attending and hospitalist. Dr. La Charité is also a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Internal Medicine where he currently serves as the curriculum director for the Internal Medicine Residency Program?s hospitalist rotation.
Elected to board in 2011; serving through end of 2013.
James E. Vance, MD, MBA
CEO, Physician Executive Management Services LLC; Associate medical director, BCE Healthcare Advisors
Highlands, NC
jevancemd@physicianexecutiveservices.com
Vance began work in CDI as a Physician Consultant with JA Thomas and Associates (JATA) in 2003-2004. He now serves as Associate Medical Director for BCE Technology, a physician documentation compliance training organization (2004-present), where he specializes in improving physician documentation compliance with Medicare documentation rules and improving physician medical necessity documentation in the medical record.
Vance's experiences include clarifying medical necessity, clinical documentation, beyond the essentials, case management physician advisor training, and third party physician advisor training for level of care admission decisions. His work includes developing an academic CDI model and RAC appeal physician advisor training.
Elected to board in 2013; serving through end of 2015.
Donna D. Wilson, RHIA, CCS, CCDS
Compliance Concepts, Inc.
Senior Director
Donna D. Wilson, RHIA, CCS, CCDS is a senior director in the consulting division of Compliance Concepts, Inc. (CCI). Her focus is assisting providers in the RAC initiative through detailed coding audits, analyzing PEPPER reports, and developing best practice CDI and revenue integrity programs. She has been in the coding quality/health information management field for over 28 years, her most recent role being the Revenue Integrity Manager of a large acute care facility (where she was responsible for RAC coordination).
Wilson is an active volunteer for and has received numerous awards from both the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) and the component state associations in the South Carolina (SCHIMA). She is a frequent speaker at the state and national levels. She has conducted multiple AHIMA audio seminars and participated in the National Medicare RAC Summit as a speaker on behalf of AHIMA. She recently authored the AHIMA publication “Responding to a Recovery Audit Contractor (RAC) Evaluation” and “Benchmarking to Improve Coding Accuracy and Productivity.”
Elected to board in 2011; serving through end of 2013
Previous ACDIS advisory board members
- Cindy Basham, MHA, MSCCS, BSN, CPC, CCS (2007-2010)
- Gloryanne Bryant, BS, RHIA, RHIT, CCS, CCDS (2007-2010)
- Shelia Bullock, RN, BSN, MBA, CCM, CCDS (2009-2011)
- Jean S. Clark, RHIA (2007-2010)
- Wendy De Vreugd, RN, BSN, PHN, FNP, CCDS (2007-2010)
- Garri L. Garrison, RN, CPC, CMC, CPUR (2009-2011)
- Colleen Garry, RN, BS (2007-2010)
- Robert Gold, MD (2007-2010)
- William E. Haik, MD (2007-2010)
- Tamara Hicks, RN, BSN, CCS, CCDS (2007-2010)
- Robin R Holmes, RN, MSN (2009-2011)
- James S. Kennedy, MD, CCS (2010-2012))
- Glenn Krauss, RHIA, CCS, CCS-P, CPUR, FCS, PCS, CCDS, C-CDI (2010-2012)
- Pam Lovell, MBA, RN (2007-2010)
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Gail B. Marini, RN, MM, CCS, LNC (2010-2012)
- Shannon McCall, RHIA, CCS, CPC, CPC-I, CCDS (2007-2010)
- Lynne Spryszak, RN, CCDS, CPC (2007-2012)
- Colleen Stukenberg, MSN, RN, CMSRN, CCDS (2009-2011)
- Heather Taillon, RHIA (2007-2010)
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Lena N Wilson, MHI, RHIA, CCS, CCDS (2010-2012)
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