Melody Mulaik

Melody W. Mulaik, MSHS is the President of Revenue Cycle Coding Strategies LLC a national consulting firm that serves healthcare systems, physician practices,billing companies and other industry stakeholders. She is a frequent speaker and author for nationally recognized professional organizations and publications.Melody's areas of expertise include coding and compliance, management engineering, and operations improvement and she is nationally recognized for herextensive compliance expertise. Melody often speaks at national conferences on many topics including Internal Audit Program Development, CodingCompliance and other healthcare compliance issues. Recent speaking engagements include AHRA: The Association for Imaging Management and theRadiology Business Management Association (RBMA). Melody is the AHRA liaison to the American College of Radiology (ACR) Economics Commission and herfirm RCCS serves as the CPT and RUC Advisors for the Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR). Melody is a frequent author for national publications and writesthe bi-monthly coding column for AHRA’s Radiology Management and the Healthcare Business Management Association (HBMA) RCM Advisor journal. Herwork has also appeared in RT Image, Imaging Economics, Radiology Today, and Radiology Business Journal. Melody co-authored Revenue Cycle CodingStrategies’ Coding Guides for Diagnostic Radiology and Interventional Radiology. Melody holds a Master of Science in Health Systems (MSHS) degree and aBachelor of Industrial Engineering (BIE) degree, both from the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech), in Atlanta, Georgia. She also holds theprofessional certification of Certified Radiology Administrator (CRA), Certified Professional Coder (CPC), Certified Outpatient Coder (COC), Radiology CertifiedCoder (RCC), and Radiology Certified Coder – Interventional (RCC-IR). Melody has achieved Fellow status with the AHRA (FAHRA) is a recipient of the prestigiousAHRA Gold Award for her organizational and industry contributions.