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 Nelly Leon-Chisen, RHIA,
is the Director of Coding and Classification
at the American Hospital
Association where she is responsible for
leading the AHA Central
Office on ICD-9-CM and Central Office on
HCPCS. The AHA Central
Office, in cooperation with the National
Center for Health
Statistics (NCHS), the Centers for Medicare and
Medicaid Services (CMS) and
the American Health Information
Management Association
(AHIMA), serves as the authoritative source on
ICD-9-CM relative to health
care payment systems, statistical reporting,
and health services
research.
She represents the AHA as one of the
four ICD-9-CM Cooperating
Parties. She is also the editor of AHA
Coding Clinic® for ICD-9-CM
and AHA Coding Clinic® for HCPCS.
She has represented the AHA
on other national groups such as the
CPT-5 Project Advisory
Group, Medicare Technical Advisory Group
Outpatient Workgroup,
ICD-10-PCS Technical Advisory Group,
Panel to Evaluate the U.S.
Standard Certificates, HEDIS Coding
Users Panel, and ICD-9-CM
Coordination and Maintenance
Committee. She was co-chair
of the Workgroup for Electronic Data
Interchange (WEDI) ICD-10
Implementation Workgroup. She also
serves as staff to the AHA
representative to the CPT Editorial Panel.
She co-chaired the joint
AHA-AHIMA ICD-10-CM Field Testing
Project and was the
technical lead for the AHA-AHIMA Facility
Evaluation and Management
(E/M) Code Development Expert Panel.
She has over 30 years
experience in the health information management
field including consulting,
teaching, technical and management
experience in hospital medical record departments. She is a Past
President of the Chicago Area Health Information
Management
Association and a recipient
of the Professional Achievement Award
from the Illinois Health
Information Management Association.
She has lectured
extensively on coding, DRG and data quality issues
throughout the United
States and internationally. She has also testified
on behalf of the American
Hospital Association at numerous National
Committee on Vital and
Health Statistics hearings on ICD-10-CM
and ICD-10-PCS.
She is a Registered Health
Information Administrator and holds a B.S.
in Medical Record
Administration from the University of Illinois at
Chicago, and a B.A. in
History and English from Northeastern Illinois University in Chicago. |
