AHIMA 2025 Virtual Coding Summit

Betty A. Hovey, CCS-P, CDIP, CPC, COC, CPMA, CPCD, CPB, CPC-I

Betty Hovey is a successful healthcare consultant with more than 30 years of experience in the field. As owner of Compliant Health Care Solutions, she provides compliant solutions to issues for all types of healthcare entities including solo practices, physician groups, health plans, healthcare systems, and hospitals. Betty’s goal is to allow physicians and APPs to do what they love—treat patients. She serves individuals and organizations by offering customizable education that focuses on compliance. Betty makes sure that documentation and coding requirements are followed to ensure that the practice/healthcare system can continue to do that by getting paid properly for the services that are provided. Currently, she sits on the AHIMA Council for Excellence in Education (CEE) and serves as a subject matter expert and item writer for AHIMA. 

Tarman Aziz, MD, CCDS

Tarman Aziz, MD, CCDS, is an internal medicine physician, CDI expert, and revenue cycle consultant with over 12 years of experience transforming clinical documentation, boosting Case Mix Index (CMI), and driving healthcare quality improvements. A former CDI quality auditor, physician advisor, and medical education director, Dr. Aziz blends clinical precision with strategic leadership to redefine healthcare education and consulting. 

Before founding CDIQ Consulting, Dr. Aziz served as a subject matter expert for Ciox (Datavant), Guidehouse, and ClinIntell, leading successful assessments and implementations. With over 15 years in academia as a medical school faculty member and academic dean, he brings a passion for teaching and a proven track record in professional development. 

As CEO of CDIQ Consulting, Dr. Aziz partners with healthcare executives and clinical teams to deliver impactful solutions, while equipping professionals with the expertise to excel in CDI, revenue cycle management, and medical education. 

Jacqueline Bloink, RHIA, CHC, CFE, CPC, CPC-I, CMRS, FMC 

Jacqueline Bloink has worked on the business side of healthcare since 1994, holding such positions as medical coder and biller manager, reimbursement manager, practice administrator, director of compliance and reimbursement, university adjunct professor, and healthcare consultant/expert witness. 

She has been published or presented with such organizations as the American Academy of Family Physicians, American College of Physicians, American Academy of Professional Coders, American Medical Association, Health Care Compliance Association, California Health Information Association, Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, Center for Medicare and Medicaid, and the Office of the Inspector General. Her healthcare business research has been used in peer review articles.  

Ms. Bloink uses all of her work experience, education, and training to assist legal professionals with the analysis of medical bills where she assigns the reasonable value to the past medical bills or calculates the reasonable value for future care. She also works on complex medical coding, billing, compliance, and healthcare fraud cases involved in state and federal legal settings. 

Rachael Romero, RHIA, CPC, CPB, FMC

Rachael has been working in the healthcare industry since 2017. In addition to holding several voluntary leadership positions at the local and state level with AHIMA, her foundational professional experience in healthcare was gained at CHOC Children’s Hospital of Orange County, California in HIM as the system administrator for an NLP coding platform. Beyond this, she has experience in departmental policy management, state reporting, third party audit coordination, and now holds the position of professional revenue integrity manager at CHOC hospital. Interwoven throughout this career path, and under the mentorship of Jacqueline Bloink, she has performed data compilations for analysis of appropriate medical coding and usual, customary, and reasonable charges, and has been privately contracted as a forensic medical coder. 

Kelly Canter, MHA, RHIT, CCS, CPM, FAHIMA

Kelly Canter is a seasoned health information professional specializing in revenue cycle management, artificial technology product design, management, and strategy. She is passionate about bringing these aspects together to be a catalyst for change in reducing the administrative burden in healthcare. She has over 20 years in the field including publishing multiple books and articles as well as speaking at the national level. Kelly is an active member of AHIMA having served many volunteer roles at the national, state, and regional levels. She is a master's educated RHIT who is also credentialed in medical coding and product management. 

Sheri Poe Bernard, CCS-P, CPC, CRC, CDEO

Sheri Poe Bernard is a senior consultant at Granite GRC Consulting, Lancaster, PA. With more than 30 years of experience in the field of healthcare information management, she offers a high level of expertise and a breadth of compliance knowledge that spans business and clinical applications. Poe Bernard brings a sharp focus on issues to both coders and healthcare providers. 

Throughout Poe Bernard’s extensive career, she has trained physicians, coders, and non-medical executives on coding and reimbursement issues. Her areas of expertise include Medicare Advantage and other risk adjustment models, CMS compliance, ICD-10-CM, CPT, and HCPCS.  

As a professional writer, she has developed superior written communication talents, as well as a strong self-directed work ethic. Poe Bernard possesses project and product management skills that have been honed by her time as a healthcare executive. She is a frequent and sought-after national speaker. She lives in Salt Lake City, UT. 

Sue Bowman, RHIA, CCS, MJ, FAHIMA

In her role at AHIMA, Sue provides strategic direction and leadership on coding policy development, coding and reimbursement systems development, compliance program development, and federal regulations pertaining to classification, reimbursement, and fraud/abuse. She serves as a leader in the Association’s advocacy initiatives for the U.S. adoption of standard classifications and terminologies, including ICD-10-CM, ICD-10-PCS, and SNOMED-CT. Sue influences national coding policy through the development and maintenance of the ICD-9-CM, ICD-10-CM, ICD-10-PCS, and CPT code sets. She analyzes and comments on proposed federal regulations and draft legislation on behalf of the Association while advocating for federal legislation and regulations that advance health information interoperability and integrity through the adoption and effective and uniform use of standards for data, health record documentation, classifications, and terminologies. Sue is an Association expert on information integrity issues in electronic health records.