E/M Excellence Symposium 2026

Angie Casale

Angie Casale, MBA, LPN, PLNC, LE, is the Director of Auditing & Education at Healthcare Inspired LLC, where she brings a clinically grounded perspective to revenue integrity, auditing, compliance, and healthcare education. Her professional background spans nursing, legal nurse consulting, healthcare operations, training implementation, and revenue cycle management, giving her a unique ability to evaluate healthcare processes from both the clinical and operational sides. Angie works with physicians, coding and billing teams, and healthcare leaders to identify documentation and workflow gaps, strengthen audit processes, and turn findings into practical education and sustainable improvements. Her approach focuses on making complex compliance and operational issues meaningful and actionable—not simply identifying what went wrong, but helping teams understand why it happened and how to prevent it from recurring. At Healthcare Inspired, Angie also helps lead the organization’s Revenue Integrity Initiative, supporting coding accuracy reviews, compliance auditing, denial root-cause analysis, physician and staff education, and broader revenue cycle improvement efforts. Her combination of clinical experience, business education, and hands-on healthcare operations provides a valuable perspective on the connection between patient care, documentation, compliance, and financial performance.

Jennifer McNamara

Healthcare Inspired Consultant

Jennifer McNamara, CPC, CCS, CRC, CDEO, CPMA, COSC, CGSC, COPC, CPC-I, is the Founder and CEO of Healthcare Inspired LLC and a nationally recognized healthcare consultant, educator, auditor, and speaker with more than 23 years of experience in coding, compliance, revenue cycle, and physician education. Jennifer’s expertise spans complex surgical and multispecialty environments, including orthopedics, neurosurgery, general surgery, otolaryngology, ophthalmology, gastroenterology, podiatry, surgical oncology, and practice management. Her work focuses on helping healthcare organizations identify compliance and revenue risk, strengthen physician documentation, improve coding and billing operations, and build practical processes that support both financial performance and patient care. A frequent national speaker and educator, Jennifer is known for bringing real-world healthcare challenges into the classroom and conference setting. Her approach goes beyond explaining regulations and coding rules to examine the operational issues behind them—how documentation, communication, payer requirements, technology, workflows, and leadership decisions ultimately affect reimbursement, compliance, and the people doing the work. Jennifer is also the host of Practice Perfect, where she continues conversations around healthcare operations, leadership, compliance, revenue integrity, and the changing role of technology in healthcare. Through Healthcare Inspired LLC, she leads a national team supporting healthcare organizations with coding, auditing, education, credentialing, revenue cycle, and compliance services.

Kristy Mull

Director of Business & Client Services

Kristy Mull, CPPM, CPCD, CPCO, is the Director of Business & Client Services at Healthcare Inspired LLC, where she leads client operations and supports healthcare organizations in strengthening revenue cycle performance, compliance, and day-to-day practice operations. Kristy’s expertise includes medical coding and billing, physician practice management, compliance, payer relations, denial prevention, audit readiness, and operational process improvement. Her work focuses on identifying the issues that disrupt revenue and workflow, developing practical solutions, and helping teams build processes that are both compliant and sustainable. Her professional credentials include Certified Physician Practice Manager (CPPM), Certified Professional Coder in Dermatology (CPCD), and Certified Professional Compliance Officer (CPCO). Known for a calm, solutions-focused approach, Kristy works closely with clients, physicians, coding and billing teams, and organizational leadership to address complex operational challenges and strengthen communication across the revenue cycle. She is particularly passionate about moving organizations beyond reactive problem-solving by building clear workflows, strong compliance practices, and systems designed to prevent recurring issues before they affect reimbursement or the patient experience. Kristy is also an active healthcare educator and industry contributor, sharing practical insight on payer policy changes, audit readiness, physician documentation, coding compliance, and the evolving challenges facing medical practices.

Natasha Timberlake

Emily Montemayor

Founder & President, Kaio Coding Solutions | Coding Compliance Supervisor, Texas Children's Hospital

Known as "The Coding Luminary," Emily has more than a decade of experience spanning medical coding, auditing, compliance, reimbursement, education, and leadership. She serves as Founder and President of Kaio Coding Solutions and Kaio Learning, Coding Compliance Supervisor at Texas Children's Hospital, Coding Support Manager at Creyos, and Director of Education for the Missouri and Ozark HIMA chapters.

Christine Hall

CEO & Senior Consultant, Stirling Global Solutions, LLC

Christine Hall, BSHM, CHC, CPC, CDEO, CPB, CPMA, CRC, CEMC, CEMA, CPC-I, CPA-TH, is a nationally recognized healthcare compliance consultant, educator, and speaker with more than 30 years of experience in healthcare administration, revenue cycle management, medical coding, auditing, reimbursement, and regulatory compliance. As President and Senior Consultant of Stirling Global Solutions, LLC, Christine works with healthcare organizations to address complex compliance and revenue cycle challenges, including program integrity, payer audits, reimbursement, documentation, coding, risk adjustment, and operational performance. Her experience includes CMS Targeted Probe and Educate (TPE), RAC and UPIC audits, Independent Review Organization monitoring, and regulatory and compliance reviews. She also serves on the National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics (NCVHS), which advises the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on health data policy, privacy, and information standards. A former Chairwoman of the AAPC Billing Advisory Committee, Christine is an AAPC and NAMAS instructor, adjunct instructor at Florida Atlantic University, and frequent national speaker. She has presented and collaborated with organizations including AAPC, AHIMA, HCCA, MGMA, and numerous healthcare associations. Christine is also the host of Coding with Christine Hall, where she brings her practical approach to coding, compliance, reimbursement, and the real-world challenges facing healthcare organizations.

Crystal Tompkins

Supervisor, Coding Audit and Provider Education, Northeast Georgia Health System

Audit Supervisor and Coding Educator at Northeast Georgia Health System, and an AAPC Approved Instructor and Subject Matter Expert with nine years of experience in multi-specialty auditing and provider education.

Kimberly Jolivette Williams

Coding Compliance Supervisor, Texas Children's Hospital | Founder, Jolivette MediCoding Institute

Kimberly Jolivette Williams, CPC, CPCO, CPB, CPMA, CPC-I, CANPC, CCC, CEMC, is a seasoned healthcare compliance, coding, billing, and auditing professional with more than 20 years of experience across the revenue cycle. Her background includes more than a decade in healthcare leadership and extensive experience educating and coaching physicians, coders, billers, and other healthcare professionals. Kimberly’s expertise includes compliance, professional coding, auditing, billing, anesthesia, cardiovascular services, evaluation and management, and revenue cycle operations. In addition to her operational and compliance work, Kimberly is an experienced educator and AAPC Approved Instructor who has taught through college and professional education programs. She has also served in AAPC leadership and advisory roles, including the Billing Advisory Committee and Subject Matter Expert Advisory Committee. Kimberly brings a practical, real-world approach to education, connecting coding and compliance requirements with the everyday challenges faced by physicians and revenue cycle teams. Her work emphasizes accuracy, accountability, strong documentation, and the operational processes necessary to support compliant and sustainable reimbursement.

John Piaskowski

Consultant, Differential Coding Services

John Piaskowski, CPC-M, CPC-I, CIRCC, CCC, CPMA, CCVTC, CUC, CRC, CGIC, CGSC, COSC, is a highly experienced multispecialty coding and auditing professional with more than 17 years of experience in professional-fee surgical coding, documentation review, and auditing. His expertise spans complex surgical specialties including cardiology, cardiovascular and thoracic surgery, interventional radiology, urology, general surgery, gastroenterology, and orthopedics. John serves as Co-Chair of the AAPC Subject Matter Expert Advisory Committee, consults for AAPC and AAPC Audit Services, and is the owner of Differential Coding Services. He also brings extensive experience as a specialty medicine and surgical auditor. An AAPC Approved Instructor and experienced educator, John is known for taking complex coding and documentation concepts and connecting them to the realities coders, auditors, physicians, and revenue cycle teams face every day. His approach emphasizes accuracy, critical thinking, compliance, and understanding the clinical story behind the code.

Sonal Patel

Healthcare Inspired Consultant

Sonal Patel, BA, CPMA, CPC, CMC, ICDCM, is a nationally recognized healthcare compliance strategist, auditor, educator, author, and speaker with more than 13 years of experience in medical coding, billing, auditing, reimbursement, and regulatory compliance. As CEO and Principal Strategist of SP Collaborative, LLC, Sonal works with healthcare organizations, medical practices, physicians, coders, auditors, consultants, and compliance professionals to strengthen coding accuracy, reimbursement integrity, and compliance education. Sonal’s career has given her a broad perspective on the business of medicine. She began in medical billing, later worked within patient business services at a nationally recognized cancer hospital, and spent nearly six years supporting healthcare attorneys with complex reimbursement matters. Her work today focuses on the intersection of documentation, coding, auditing, payer requirements, regulatory compliance, denials, and revenue integrity. Sonal is also the creator and host of Paint The Medical Picture Podcast, a nationally followed healthcare business podcast covering medical coding, billing, auditing, compliance, reimbursement, fraud, waste and abuse, and emerging industry changes. A frequent presenter and industry contributor, she is known for translating changing regulations and complex compliance issues into practical guidance healthcare professionals can use in their day-to-day work.

Maya Turner

Executive Managing Director, Turner Expert Consulting Services LLC

Executive Managing Director of Turner Expert Consulting Services and Director of Auditing and Education at Healthcare Inspired, with more than $35 million in litigation matters supported as an expert witness and consultant. Best-selling author of BILLABLE and a national speaker on revenue cycle, risk adjustment, and E/M coding compliance.

Pam Vanderbilt

President, KnowledgeTree Billing, Inc.

President of KnowledgeTree Billing, Inc. and a national educator, consultant, and speaker specializing in revenue cycle management, coding, billing, and auditing compliance. Certified as CPC, CPB, CPMA, CDEO, CPPM, CEMC, and CPC-I, she has trained thousands of coders, auditors, and providers through NAMAS and industry conferences nationwide.

Corella Lumpkins

Manager, Coding Compliance & Provider Education, Loudoun Medical Group | President-Elect, AAPC National Advisory Board

A recognized healthcare revenue cycle leader with more than 38 years of experience in compliance, coding, auditing, and provider education. President-Elect of the AAPC National Advisory Board and a Certified Professional Compliance Officer (CPCO), Certified Professional Medical Auditor (CPMA), and AAPC Approved Instructor (CPC-I).