Ashley Kaad
West Bend,WI
Summary
Certified Medical Coder with 4+ years of healthcare coding experience specializing in professional-fee, outpatient, and multispecialty coding. Skilled in ICD-10-CM, CPT, E/M leveling, charge capture, documentation review, coding guidelines.
Overview
1
1
Certification
4
4
years of professional experience
Work History
Coding and Compliance Specialist
Ensource RCM
06.2025 - 03.2026
- Analyze and assign ICD-10-CM, CPT, and modifiers across multispecialty clinic, home health and hospice, and ED facility and profee multispecialty clinic encounters.
- Perform E/M leveling using current E/M guidelines, including Medical Decision Making (MDM) and time-based coding, to support accurate charge capture and reduce audit risk.
- Collaborated with clinical teams to clarify ambiguous notes, accelerating clean claims and improving payer acceptance.
- Maintain up-to-date coding references and guideline interpretations to ensure consistent application and minimize downstream corrections.
- Eliminated 14-day queue bottleneck by processing 200+ backlogged items within initial weeks of onboarding at 96% accuracy.
Coding Advocate
Trubridge Inc
06.2024 - 01.2025
- Entered and validated physician charges for professional services, ensuring accurate linkage of CPT/HCPCS procedures, modifiers, and ICD-10-CM diagnoses to the appropriate encounter type.
- Conducted documentation compliance review for FQHC Indian Health Services and behavioral health encounters, ensuring adherence to regulatory standards.
- Maintained 100% accuracy across assigned coding reviews.
- Designed streamlined coding checklists tailored to FQHC and behavioral health workflows, improving reviewer consistency and reducing documentation follow-ups.
Certified Medical Coder
Kiwi-Tek LLC
04.2022 - 06.2024
- Performed ProFee coding for family medicine, general surgery, dermatology, and emergency department encounters.
- Reviewed and validated demographic, provider, and clinical data to maintain claim integrity and accuracy.
- Ensured compliance with Medicare and Medicaid coding policies, LCDs, and NCDs to uphold regulatory standards.
- Consistently achieved 97%+ accuracy while meeting and exceeding established productivity and quality standards.
- Appealed coding discrepancies with evidence-based rationale, increasing claim acceptance rates.
Education
Associate of Applied Science - Health information technology
Moraine Park Technical College
Skills
- ICD-10 CM, CPT, HCPCs
- Professional Fee Coding
- Outpatient Coding
- Charge capture
- HCC validation
- Documentation review
- LCD/NCD
- Medical Decision Making (MDM)
- Cerner, EPIC, Optum, TruBridge CPSI
- Encoder Software
- Interdisciplinary Communication
Certification
- CPMA
- CCS
- CPC
- RHIT
Timeline
Coding and Compliance Specialist
Ensource RCM
06.2025 - 03.2026
Coding Advocate
Trubridge Inc
06.2024 - 01.2025
Certified Medical Coder
Kiwi-Tek LLC
04.2022 - 06.2024
Associate of Applied Science - Health information technology
Moraine Park Technical College