1. Mary Price, RHIT
(928) 231-3016 (cell)
mcbarry330@gmail.com
Vision
I will build upon my 18 years of experience to lead and encourage the health care cultural shift:
1. As we move from paper to electronic-based records;
2. Redefine the “medical record” to “health record;”
3. Assist and educate patients and peers on what this means to and how it impacts them; and
4. Mitigate potential challenges as we address regulatory demands, economic shortages, and the hard and soft
financial impact of patient satisfaction and successful safety and quality outcome measures.
Summary of Qualifications
o I have achieved organizational executive-level management;
o I have significantly improved inefficiencies, ineffectiveness, and the “bottom line” in my leadership of compliance,
organizational quality assurance (QA)/performance improvement (PI), EHR selection, template development,
implementation, and on-going audits and education, and the creation and/or restructuring of the HIM department; and
o Effective Change Management leadership, including planning & preparing for, managing, implementing, and
monitoring organizational (or program specific) changes;
o I have worked closely with various local, state, federal regulators and accrediting organizations to successfully interpret,
communicate, accurately apply, and implement complicated regulations and standards (e.g., OIG, HIPAA, JC(AHO), COA,
RAC, MU, PEPPER, HEN, OCFS, OMH, OMRDD, Youth Bureau, Probation, CORF, FERPA, ASFA, Pathways, and
Diversion Collaborative);
o I have experienced and managed issues related to “Self-Managed Teams” and “Learning Organizations”;
Education
12/07 Bachelor in Science (BS) Degree, Organizational Management – Roberts Wesleyan College,
Rochester, NY
5/96 Associates in Applied Science (AAS) Degree, Health Information Technology – Monroe Community College, Rochester, NY
Graduated with honors.
Accreditations/Certifications/Trade Education
11/13 Graduate of the Wickenburg Community Hospital’s Leadership Program
5/13 LEAN for Healthcare, Arizona Health & Hospital Association (AzHHA)
5/12 National Rural Health Certified Medical Coder credential (NRHCMC), Association for Rural Health Professional Coders
7/09 Graduate of the Glendive Medical Center’s Leadership Institute
7/09 Certified in the 100a and 107 FEMA Emergency Management Training
7/06 Certified Six Sigma Green Belt (Lean Quality Management), Kodak Institute
10/96 Accredited Registered Health Information Technologist (RHIT), American Health Information Management Association
Professional Employment
6/10 – 1/15 Wickenburg Community Hospital and Community Hospital Clinics
A 19-bed Critical Access Hospital (CAH) and 7-provider Rural Health Clinics (RHC); Responsible for the development and
maintenance of a Health Information Management (HIM) department, HIPAA Privacy, and a Compliance Program;
 As HIM Director:
o Created HIM department from ground – up (directly responsible for staff of 5 perm/2 shared/6 temp FTEs)
o Supervised 4 coders, including training, auditing, mentoring, on-going continuing education for:
1. Inpatient/SNF;
2. Hospitalist;
3. Outpatient;
4. Wound Care;
5. Respiratory Therapy;
6. IV Therapy;
7. ER;
8. Pain Management;
9. Interventional Radiology;
10. Rehabilitation;
11. Sleep Studies;
12. Nutrition Care;
13. Physician/Clinic (Family Practice,
Internal Medicine, Pediatrics,
Geriatric Care, Pain Management/
Injections, Wound Care, In-Home
Care/Visits, and Hospice
Physician);
o Became a Certified ICD-10 CM and ICD-10 PCS Coding “Train the Trainer” by AHIMA and used that to begin
training coders and discuss specific department/organizational potential impact in Revenue Cycle Committee;
o Facilitated and coordinated Meaningful Use implementation and monitored for on-going compliance for both the
hospital and each of the clinic providers;
 As HIPAA Privacy Officer:
o Received and investigated all breach reports;
o Implemented HIPAA training for all employees, volunteers, students/interns, boards, and foundation;
o Conducted walk-thru HIPAA Privacy & Security Assessments and Action Plans/Outcomes;
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2. Mary Price, RHIT
(928) 231-3016 (cell) / mcbarry330@gmail.com
 As Compliance Officer:
o Created and implemented a Compliance program for the hospital and clinic (it was non-existent previously):
1. Received and investigate all reports of potential compliance issues;
2. Conducted audits, coordinated and reviewed internal “mock” surveys by departments for a constant state
of readiness of any variety of regulatory inspections;
3. Completed organization response to federal and state survey findings and received the CEO Award for
Excellence, 2013;
o Participated and/or Chaired the following committees: Revenue Cycle, Clinic Oversight, Quality Council,
Utilization Management, Leadership Management, Rehab and Clinic EHR Selection, EHR Workflow (formally Forms
Committee), and Meaningful Use.
9/08 – 5/10 Dawson Community College, Glendive, MT
A Community College Business program that was beginning to offer “health care-related” education to meet the largest
employer in the area – the Glendive Medical Center (hospital and clinic). Responsible for the medical terminology
curriculum.
 As Adjunct Instructor, Medical Terminology I and II:
o Created, taught, and evaluated classes of medical terminology;
o Consultant & member of the Dawson Community College Advisory Board for the Business Program.
 Made recommendations regarding curricula, testing, program initiatives, possibility of new
certification programs
5/08 – 5/10 Glendive Medical Center
A 25-bed CAH (not-for-profit) hospital with:
1. 79-bed Long-term Care (LTC)/Skilled Nursing Facility
(SNF) and contracted to manage an 80-bed VA LTC:
2. 12-bed Assisted Living facility:
3. Same Day and Acute Surgical Center;
4. Inpatient and Outpatient Behavioral Health services;
5. Home Health/Hospice;
6. PT/OT/Speech Rehab;
7. Diet & Nutrition;
8. Diabetes Management;
9. Cardiac Rehab;
10. Chemotherapy/Infusion Therapy;
11. Interventional Radiology;
12. Lab;
13. Rad;
14. DME;
15. Retail Pharmacy;
16. Respiratory Therapy
17. 13-physician RHC services [Ortho, Ob/Gyn, Gastro,
Internal Med, Behavioral Health];
18. Telemedicine;
19. Pain Management;
20. Geriatrics;
21. Family Practice;
22. Orthopaedics; and
23. Ob/GYN
 Consultant to the Prairie County Hospital and Wibaux Health Care Clinic for compliance, HIPAA, and HIM.
 As HIM Director:
 HIM oversight for the entire integrated health care system’s coding, transcription, HIT, auditing, record
assembly, patient/provider/insurance requests for records, maintained & reported to all required registries
(e.g., Cancer, MPI, Surgical, Birth, Death), etc;
 Oversight for Hospital, Clinic, & Urgent Care Coding and Rural Health Clinic and Urgent Care Clinics
Coding;
 8 FTEs, shared 3 FTEs, and hosted Externs and DCC Business program student interns;
o Restructured the Gabert Clinic & Glendive Medical Center HIM departments to streamline workflow, decrease
duplication, and provide future growth opportunities for the HIM staff;
o Consultant to additional community organizations, Prairie County Hospital and Wibaux Health Care Clinic;
o Completed Glendive Medical Center’s Leadership program.
o Reviewed, created, monitored, and reported the measures and outcomes for GMC/GC Quality Dashboards
and Employee Satisfaction Surveys.
 As Corporate Compliance Officer & HIPAA Privacy Officer:
o Chaired, provided oversight, and established Recovery Audit Contractor (RAC) Compliance oversight for the
entire integrated health care system;
o Updated and ensured compliance with all regulatory requirements across the integrated health care system,
including Critical Access Hospital (CAH) and Rural Health Care (RHC) regulations, Health Insurance Portability and
Accountability Act (HIPAA), and Office of the Inspector General (OIG);
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3. o Taught new employee orientation for compliance and HIPAA-related issues; conducted HIPAA gap analysis
and implemented necessary changes, policies & procedures, workforce training and formally responded to
community, DHHS, and OCR complaints and inquiries;
o Participated in the Gabert Clinic RHC Annual Program Evaluation and quarterly committee meetings;
Mary Price, RHIT
(928) 231-3016 (cell) / mcbarry330@gmail.com
1/07- 10/07 Anthony L. Jordan Health Center
An inter-city clinic that had a wide range of services; organizational staffing were unionized; Responsible for the HIM
departmental functions as well as creating a QA program.
 As HIM Director, Coding Oversight, and Director of Quality Assurance:
o Supervised 7 unionized staff, multiple HIM and Medical Secretary student interns, Job Corp, “Work for Pay”
candidates, and volunteers; in the Health Information department which
o Supported 35+ providers:
 Primary Care;
 Internal Medicine;
 Behavioral Health;
 HIV/AIDS;
 Drug & Alcohol;
 Pediatrics;
 Dentistry;
 Ortho;
 Ophthalmology;
 Lab;
 Urgent Care; and
 Ob/Gyn;
o Reviewed and advised leadership on Risk Management and Legal practices and issues;
o Initiated off-site storage, shredding, and transcription services;
o Partnered with Monroe Plan representatives for streamlined service-specific redesign changes in the Health
Services Committee.
o Co-facilitated the Performance Improvement Committee with Board Representative
6/96 – 1/07 Hillside Family of Agencies, Hillside Children’s Center, Crestwood Children’s Center, Snell Farms Children’s
Center, Hillside Work Scholarship, Foster Care, Office of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities, Juvenile Justice
An 1100+ employee Behavioral Health organization for children with services ranging in outpatient, inpatient, residential,
juvenile justice, educational, foster care, and developmentally/mentally delayed services. This organization had 5 Affiliates
and was spread out across Upstate NY.
 As Standards Manager 2004-2007:
o Completed and received the Six Sigma Green Belt certification for creating, implementing, and monitoring our
Standardized HFA (internal & external) Compliance/Audit System;
1. Streamlined & revamped entire internal audit processes for all 5 Service Affiliates;
2. Reduced documentation & improved efficiency & compliance driven by program-specific
requirements (e.g., OCFS, OMH, OMRDD Documentation Guidelines posted on the intra-net);
o Responsible for the acquisition of, understanding, interpreting, & educating staff of regulations & accrediting
organizations’ standards;
o Facilitated Root Cause Analyses/Sentinel Events (RCA/SE) for OMH and JCAHO (now JC) and Responsible for
the creation and monitoring of Plans of Corrective Action (POCAs) (proactively and reactively);
o Prepared and moved the organization from JC to Council on Accreditation’s(COA) site survey and successfully
received accreditation with no citations;
o Create and facilitate training for Clinical Treatment Planning, Integrating Assessments into the Service Plan;
o Participated in the Quality Improvement Committees for 3 Affiliates, Intra-Affiliate Client Information Management
Committee and the Clinical Information Roundtable.
 As HIPAA Privacy Officer 2002 - 2007:
o HIPAA Privacy Officer for the “parent” corporation and its 5 Affiliates;
1. Completely created, implemented, educated HIPAA Privacy in 2003 – 2007;
2. Co-Chaired the local CCSI HIPAA Collaborative Council;
3. Created HIPAA Privacy training materials, policies and procedures, and authorizations for ROI for
behavioral health that were adopted by the National Child Welfare League of America (NCWLA);
o Responded to clients and families’ concerns regarding HIPAA rights and privacy breaches with a special focus on
privacy for minors, foster care, freed for adoption, and sexually active youth protections.
 As Standards Specialist 2002 - 2004:
o Responsible for monitoring external survey outcomes; Prepared 2 Affiliates for on-site JCAHO accreditation surveys
and conducted the JCAHO Periodic Performance Reviews;
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4. o Founder and Project Manager of the “Docu-Slim” project with a goal of decreasing paperwork and redundancy by at
least 50%;
o Monitored and reported progress of Balance Score Card measures with a goal of at least 85% or higher compliance.
 As Clinical Information Integrator June 1996 - 2002:
o “In house” consultant on medicolegal, accountability, and compliance of various regulators (e.g., JCAHO, OMH,
OMRDD, OCFS, Youth Bureau, Probation, Pathways), and training;
o Conducted individual and group training on Treatment Plan Management and Documentation, Confidentiality,
Court Documentation and Testifying, HIPAA, and Incident Report Documentation;
Mary Price, RHIT
(928) 231-3016 (cell) / mcbarry330@gmail.com
o Created an intra-net that contained all required forms for various service documentation, policies and procedures,
and led the pursuit for an agency EMR, resulting in 3 “EMRs” during the 10 years;
o Directed Practice Supervisor for HIM students and Received the Clinical Preceptor Award in 2000;
2001 – 2005 Easter Seals of New York, Diagnostic & Treatment Center
Regulated by the Office of Mentally Retardation and Developmental Disabilities (OMRDD), this center was outpatient
focused; Responsible to make sure they met the requirements for QA and HIM oversight to ensure state and federal
licensing.
 As Quality Assurance/HIM Consultant:
o Consulted for the purposes of Quality Assurance Program and HIM oversight for the Diagnostic & Treatment
Center’s program:
1. Reviewed/Revised their policy and procedure manual;
2. Conducted quarterly QA audits to ensure compliance with regulatory standards;
3. Prepared the DTC for CORF licensing and successfully received licensing;
4. Directed and identified billing gaps that created extra revenue.
Awards Received
 CEO Award for Excellence, 2013
 Who’s Who in America’s Junior Colleges, 1996 and Who’s Who in America’s Executives, 2006 & 2008
 Award for Outstanding Effort: Hillside Family of Agencies Continuous Quality Improvement Award, 2005
 New York’s Health Information Management Association’s Clinical Preceptor Award, 2000
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