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Emily Graham, MSHIM, RHIA, CCS-P
Vice President, Regulatory Affairs
Emily Graham, MSHIM, RHIA, CCS-P, joined Hart Health Strategies in January 2011 as Vice President of Regulatory Affairs, where she helped establish the firm’s regulatory and quality services portfolio. As a member of the Hart Health Strategies team, Ms. Graham works with a diverse range of organizations on complex challenges that impact the quality and delivery of health care that arise from an ever-changing health policy landscape. She routinely engages with key federal agencies under the US Departments of Health and Human Services, Veterans Affairs, and Defense, including noteworthy advisors that influence federal health policy, and frequently interacts with Congressional offices as a subject matter expert.
Across her decades-long career in health policy, Ms. Graham has served in multiple roles, including as the Associate Director of Regulatory Affairs for the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery (ASCRS), where she focused on a variety of regulatory and quality improvement issues for ophthalmic surgeons. Here, she also served as Chair of the Quality and Health Information Technology and Regulatory Committee for the Alliance of Specialty Medicine, and as a staff liaison to the AMA's CPT Editorial Panel and Revalue Value Systems Update Committee (RUC), the National Quality Forum (NQF), Surgical Quality Alliance (SQA), and the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) Z80, among others.
Ms. Graham also held positions with the American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head Neck Surgery as a Practice Management Coordinator, where she focused on coding and reimbursement issues, as well as in an acute care hospital billing office and in a physician practice. She also held positions in academia, serving as the Assistant Dean and Program Director for the Health Information Management and Clinical Data Coding (HIM/CDC) Programs at Northern Virginia Community College's (NVCC) Medical Education Campus (MEC), as an adjunct faculty member for the NVCC HIM/CDC program, and most recently, as Chair of the NVCC HIM/CDC Advisory Committee.
Ms. Graham is a Past President of the District of Columbia Health Information Management Association (DCHIMA) and currently holds credentials as a Registered Health Information Administrator (RHIA) and Certified Coding Specialist – Physician-based (CCS-P) from the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA). She obtained a Bachelor of Science and a Master of Science in HIM from Stephens College, Columbia, MO. She completed her Six Sigma Green Belt training at Villanova University.