Released on = March 20, 2007, 6:07 am

Press Release Author = Medac, Inc.

Industry = Healthcare

Press Release Summary = Award Recognizes Outstanding Achievements and Leadership in
Anesthesia Compliance

Press Release Body = AUGUSTA, Ga. (Monday March 19, 2007)- Medac is pleased to
announce that Bellinger Moody, Medac's Senior Vice President of Compliance, has been
recognized by Cambridge Who's Who as Executive of the Year. This prestigious honor
is awarded to only one member in each discipline and the honorees are selected based
on outstanding accomplishments, academic achievement, leadership, and service.

Bellinger holds a B.A. in Business Administration from Morehouse College, and is a
nationally known expert in the field of anesthesia and pain management. He has been
published in a variety of industry publications and is a frequent speaker at
conferences.

Bellinger has over 14 years of experience in the healthcare industry, eight of which
are in anesthesia and pain management billing, coding, reimbursement, education, and
management. Through Bellinger\'s experience auditing and consulting for anesthesia
and pain practices across the country, he has gained valuable insight into
anesthesia and pain-specific coding and compliance pitfalls. These include common
documentation problems that affect reimbursement, CRNA coding issues and how they
vary between states, managed care contract issues that affect reimbursement, unique
anesthesia & pain coding techniques that increase reimbursement, cardiac anesthesia
and coding compliance. Bellinger is also extremely knowledgeable regarding
anesthesia billing rules and exceptions for Medicare, Medicaid, and private payors,
teaching facility documentation rules as well as coding techniques for compliance
and maximum reimbursement.

His credentials include: nationally Registered Health Information Administrator
(RHIA) through the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA), a
nationally Certified Professional Coder (CPC) through the American Academy of
Professional Coders (AAPC), a nationally Certified Compliance Professional (CCP)
through the Healthcare Fraud & Abuse Compliance Institute, an AAPC Approved
Professional Medical Coding Curriculum (PMCC) Coding Instructor, and a member of the
Medical Group Management Association (MGMA) and the Anesthesia Administrator\'s
Assembly (AAA).

About Medac
Based in Augusta, Ga, Medac is the second largest anesthesia billing service in the
nation. Specializing exclusively in anesthesia and pain management billing, it
currently supports over 100 groups with 1800 providers in 24 states. In addition to
standard billing service offerings, Medac also supplies services in collections,
practice management, managed care contract negotiations and regulatory compliance.
They are also the creator of the innovative KAM2000 anesthesia billing software
which is sold to practices seeking to independently manage their own billing
process.


Web Site = http://www.medac.com

Contact Details = Christina Jones
Medac, Inc
804 Scott Nixon Memorial Drive
Augusta, GA 30907