Career Coders Staff
Melody Irvine, CPC, CEMC, CPC-I, CCS-P, CPMA, CMRS
Owner/Instructor
30 years in the medical field
Certified Coder - CCS-P through AHIMA, CPC though AAPC, CMBS through Medical
Billers Association and EMS – Mastery level of Evaluation and Management
Coding through AAPC .
Teaching ICD-9/CPT and Insurance Billing for 9 years at local community colleges.
Worked in hospital setting for 8 years.
Worked in multi-specialty setting for 14 years as Director of Coding, HIPAA, Compliance and Urgent Care. Developed and implemented HIPAA and Compliance Plans. 6 years of Chart Auditing experience. Click here for more information.
Sally Wadlington, CPC, MHCS
Instructor
Sally has worked in the healthcare field for 34 years. During this 34 years she has worked in positions that include receptionist, transcriptionist, billing specialist, manager and administrator for a large multi-specialist physician office in Loveland, Colorado. She received her Masters of Healthcare Sciences in 1998. Since her retirement in 2004, she has been consulting and teaching medical billing and coding.
Becky Pherson
Basic Anatomy and Medical Terminology Instructor
Becky Pherson is currently working as a Medical Assistant and has been in the field since 1987. She has taught at a local community college for the last 5 years. Her teaching objective has always been keeping students best interest in mind, and because of this attitude she was nominated for teacher of the year in 2009. When Becky is asked what she loves to teach, she will say, “I love to teach all ages and all thing.” Becky and her husband Scott have five children, one grandson, one dog and one cat.
Brenton White
Webmaster
Brenton
White is the Career Coders Webmaster. He also works at Interweave
Press as a Web Production Administrator. His
degree is in Physics and he has worked with the Web from the "Stone"
age. He enjoys
traveling, mostly cruising, and walking with his dog, Mickey.
Mikko and Marley
Career Coders MASCOTs
What
can we say? Just look at those faces. Mikko, the Toy Poodle is the Career Coders
greeter and all around FUN guy. Marley, the Yorkie, is the sweet
little guy that keeps Mikko company!
