EMILY H. HILL, PA, PRESIDENT

Emily Hill, PA, President of Hill & Associates, Inc., has a broad professional background in the health care industry. Her clinical, administrative, and consulting experience gives her a unique perspective in advising health care providers and their staff in medical practice management. With more than twenty years of experience as a health care consultant, she has worked with numerous academic and private practices on coding reimbursement, compliance, and practice management issues.

Ms. Hill has taught coding seminars for a number of medical specialty societies including the American Academy of Family Physicians, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, and the American Academy of Physician Assistants. She is an advisor to the American Academy of Pain Medicine on coding and reimbursement issues.  She is a frequent speaker for state associations, national health systems, and numerous medical practices.

She currently serves as a representative on the American Medical Association's Correct Coding Policy Committee and the Health Care Professionals Advisory Committee Review Board for the Relative Value Update Committee (RUC). Ms. Hill was also selected to participate on the American Medical Association's CPT-5 Project, the National Uniform Claim Committee, and on a Clinical Practice Expert Panel for the Health Care Financing Administration's (HCFA) Practice Expense Study.  She has served on various workgroups for the RUC and CPT processes.

Ms. Hill provided direct patient care as a certified Physician Assistant for a family practice group, served as Chief Executive Officer of a mental health facility, and was Vice President of Operations for a psychiatric management company.

Education
Bowman Gray School of Medicine
Physician Assistant Program 1984

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
B.A. Education 1978

Experience
• Healthcare Consultant and Managing Partner, Hill & Associates, Wilmington, NC.
1989-present
• Senior Consultant, Consulting Concepts, Inc., Salt Lake City, Utah. 1991-1993
• Director of Operations, Specialized Hospital Programs, Beverly Farms, Massachusetts. 1989-1991
• Executive Director, Life Center of Galax, Galax, Virginia, 1987-1989
• Physician Assistant, Life Center of Galax, Galax, Virginia, 1985-1987
• Physician Assistant, Family Practice Associates, Galax, Virginia, 1984-1987
• Teacher, Galax City Public Schools, Galax, Virginia, 1978-1982

Certificates, Professional Memberships, Professional Activities
• Physician Assistant-Certified, 1984-2001
• American Academy of Physician Assistants (AAPA), 1984-present
• American Medical Association/Specialty Society Relative Value System Update Process (RUC), 1994-1999
• Health Care Professionals Advisory Committee of the American Medical Association, 1993-present
• Coding and Reimbursement Workgroup to the Commission on Health Care Services of the American Academy of Family Physicians, 1998-2005
• Member of the National Uniform Claim Committee, 1999-2006
• Member of the American Medical Association's CPT-5 Workgroup on Maintenance and Education, 1998-1999
• Member of the American Medical Association's Correct Coding Policy Committee, 1998
• Clinical Practice Expert Panel for the Health Care Financing Administration Practice Expense Study, 1996
• North Carolina Academy of Physician Assistants
• AAPA Task Force on Organizational Efficiency, 1987-88
• AAPA Professional Practices Review Committee, 1985-86
• AAPA Board of Directors, 1983-84

Publications, Honors and Awards
• The Essential Guide to Coding in Obstetrics and Gynecology, Second Edition, co-edited with Terry Tropin, RHIA, CPC, CCS-P and Savonne Alford, RHIT, The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, First Edition in 2003 and Second Edition in 2006
• Handbook of Exercise in Diabetes, “Medical Reimbursement and Managed CareIissues”, chapter co-edited with Eric Durak, MSc, American Diabetes Association, 2002
• Guide to Diabetes Coding, co-authored with Catherine G. Fisher, CPA, American Diabetes Association, 1999
• Co-chair of the AMA's Health Care Professionals Advisory Committee Review Board for the Relative Value Update Committee, 1994-1999; Alternate Co-chair, 2007-2011
• President of the Wake Forest University School of Medicine at the Bowman Gray Campus Physician Assistant Alumni Association, 1994-1995; 1999-2000
• Student Academy President's Award, 1985 (AAPA)
• National President of the Student Academy of the AAPA, 1983-84
• James F. Wilson Award for the Outstanding Physician Assistant Student, Class of 1984
• President of the Bowman Gray Physician Assistant Class of 1984
• President of the Galax Education Association, 1981-1982
• On the panel of consultants for "Family Practice Management"
• Editorial Advisory Board of "OB-GYN Coding Advisor"