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Total Credits: 1 including 1 CE Hours
Title: Unlocking Expertise: An open panel on Insurance, Coding and Compliance
Instructor: All 2025 LB Payne Insurance Speakers - Moderated by Dr. Rachel Wendt
CEs: 1 CE
Course Description:
Join a dynamic panel of industry leaders as they provide expert insights into the most pressing issues in insurance, coding, compliance, and documentation. This session, moderated by Rachel Wendt, DC will feature a robust discussion with Kristi Hudson, CPCO, Evan Gwilliam, DC MBA QCC CPC CCPC CPMA CPCO AAPC Fellow, Kathy Weidner, MCS-P, CPCO, CCPC, CCCA, Colleen Auchenbach, DC, MCS-P, CPMA, and Michael Coates, Esq.. Attendees will gain a deeper understanding of how to navigate the complexities of these critical areas to ensure best practices and avoid common pitfalls in their chiropractic practices.
Learning Objectives and Outline:
This will be a roundtable discussion for 1-hour that will be moderated by Rachel Wendt.
1. Identify and discuss key updates in insurance, coding, processes and compliance regulations and areas where chiropractors are subject to attack that impact chiropractic practices in an open roundtable discussion.
2. Apply expert recommendations to enhance processes, compliance and coding in everyday practice.
3. This panel will also feature a Q&A session to take questions from the audience on what common issues and challenges they are facing. This panel gives them an opportunity to ask the experts in an open dialogue.
Dr. Gwilliam is the Senior Vice President at Practisync. He graduated as Valedictorian from Palmer College of Chiropractic in 2003 and combines his clinical experience with an MBA and multiple certifications. He is a respected figure in the chiropractic community, known for his expertise in coding and auditing, and is therefore a sought-after seminar speaker.
Kristi Hudson is a certified professional compliance officer (CPCO). She is the Vice President of Business Relationships for ChiroHealthUSA, Director of Marketing for ChiroArmor, and Administrator of the Foxworth Family Chiropractic Scholarship. She serves on the leadership board for ChiroCongress Cares and is the incoming Vice Chair for the Chiropractic Future Strategic Plan. She speaks nationally on billing, coding, documentation, ethics, practice growth, and more. You can contact Kristi at Kristi@chirohealthusa.com.
Kathy Weidner, better known professionally as Kathy Mills Chang, is a Colorado girl, residing there with her husband and two beloved basset hounds, Homer and Daisy Mae. Kathy started as a CA in 1983 and is celebrating her 40th anniversary of serving the chiropractic profession in 2023.
Kathy is known as one of our profession’s premiere Medicare, compliance, billing, and documentation experts. Now a Certified Medical Compliance Specialist (MCS-P), a Certified Professional Chiropractic Coder (CCPC) and Certified Professional Compliance Officer, (CPCO) Kathy’s super-power is that she makes these difficult subjects simple, easy to understand, and, most importantly, easy to implement.
Dr. Colleen Auchenbach graduated with a Doctor of Chiropractic from Cleveland University Kansas City in December of 1998 and enjoyed practicing for over 20 years. Her interest in Medical Compliance began when she earned the 100-hour Insurance Consultant/Peer Review certification from Logan University in 2015. She has been a certified Medical Compliance Specialist-Physician since 2016 and a Certified Professional Medical Auditor since 2022. Dr. Auchenbach joined the excellent team at KMC University as a Specialist in 2020. She is now the Director of Education, and is dedicated to bringing you accurate, current, and reliable information. You may reach her by email at info@kmcuniversity or by calling (855) 832-6562.
Michael Coates is a California-licensed attorney. Over the last decade, Michael has established himself as a national authority on medical lien law, lien recovery and negotiations. He is a recognized innovator, advocate, coach, instructor, and mentor. Having seen the good and the bad in the personal injury (PI) business, he has helped hundreds of providers recover millions of dollars from law firms of all shapes and sizes. Michael is the country’s top lien and LOP negotiator.
His company, Personal Injury Made Easy, gives providers, owners, and staff a true business advantage in the PI space. Michael also has a company that serves as an outsourced lien negotiator for medical providers, https://www.PersonalInjuryBillingPros.com.
Additionally, Michael has a book, Personal Injury Made Easy, to help guide providers, and is now available on Amazon. https://www.amazon.com/Personal-Injury-Made-Easy-Successfully/dp/B0DCHGGD3N
Dr. Rachel Wendt is the current Executive Director for the Kentucky Association of Chiropractors. Dr. Wendt currently serves as a board member of the Congress of Chiropractic State Associations and is the current Chair for Chiropractic Future. She resides in Lexington, KY.
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2025 LB Payne Insurance Seminar | Dr. Gwilliam, Dr. Auchenbach and Kathy Weidner - 1 CE
Original Program Date: 01/18/2025 |