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Rose Dunn, MBA, RHIA, CPA, FACHE co-presents “Tackling Denials: Starting out the New Year on the Defense” for NAHRI (National Association for Healthcare Revenue Integrity) in January 2021

✫ Deanna Peterson Spoke at HIMSS in March 2020 on Long Term Care Interoperability Challenges

✫ March of 2020, Rose Dunn, MBA, RHIA, CPA, FACHE presents “Outsourcing, Offshoring, and other “On” and “In” Staffing Solutions” to the Ozarks Area Health Information Management Association

✫ Edye Edens, JD, presented “Maximizing the Efficacy of Organizational Project Management by Revolutionizing Your Culture of Leadership” at DIA 2020 Global Annual Meeting in Washington DC in June 2020

✫ Rose Dunn, MBA, RHIA, CPA, FACHE speaks on “Where’s Your Career Going?” for the California Health Information Association in September 2020

✫ Edye Edens, JD, spoke at Texas Medical Center on Post Approval Monitoring in a COVID-19 Environment in October 2020

✫ In November 2020, Dawn Bertels, RHIT, CCS was promoted to Senior Coding Compliance Consultant

✫ Deanna Peterson, MHA, RHIA, CHPS and Rose Dunn, MBA, RHIA, CPA, FACHE spoke at KSHIMA and Mo/ILHIMA meeting in May 2019

✫ Rose Dunn, MBA, RHIA, CPA, FACHE presents as HFMA’s ANI: The ABCs of HCCs

✫ Edye Edens, JD, spoke at IND/IDE Education Program at University of Minnesota in February 2018

✫ Deanna Peterson, MHA, RHIA, CHPS became licensed in the State of Missouri as a Licensed Nursing Home Administrator, March 2018

✫ David Vence, MHI, MA, BS, RHIA, CPC and Sally Frese, MSN, RN, BC, CPC presented at MGMA of Greater St. Louis fall convention: Building up your Practice: Strength Training for Effective Mid-Level Provided Utilization, Billing Compliance (October 2018)

✫ Rose Dunn, MBA, RHIA, CPA, FACHE presents “HCCs: Guarding Against Upcoding Practices” at the Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA) (October 2018)

✫ Deanna Peterson, MHA, RHIA, CHPS, Spoke at EMHIMA Spring Fling March 2017

✫ Ben Burton, JD, MBA, RHIA, CHP, CHC, CRC, presented at HCCA, March 2017 

✫ In May of 2017, Rose Dunn, MBA, RHIA, CPA, FACHE presented multiple sessions at the Health Information Management Association of Hawaii including “MACRA & MIPS: What do these M&Ms mean for HIM Professionals”

✫ October 2017, Deanna M. Peterson, MHA, RHIA, CHPS awarded the Emerging Leader Award from AHIMA

✫ February 2016, Deanna Peterson, MHA, RHIA, CHPS co-authored Healthcare Privacy Considerations of Body-Worn Cameras

✫ In March 2016, Bill Remmich, MBA, CPC, CCS, Maria Brooks-Swims, RHIA, CPC, CRC, and David Vence, RHIA, CPC were promoted to Assistant Vice Presidents and Deanna Peterson was promoted to Vice President in June 2016

✫ Rose Dunn, MBA, RHIA, CPA, FACHE presents on ICD-10 Optimization to the CFO Roundtable 2 in September 2016

✫ Deanna Peterson, MHA, RHIA, CHPS and Benjamin Burton, JD, MBA, RHIA, CHP, CHC, CRC presented “42 CFR Part 2—Modernized and Muddled: A Discussion of Challenges with Proposed