About CSI

Melody W. Mulaik, MSHS is the President and Co-Founder of Coding Strategies, Inc. and Coding Metrix, Inc. located in Atlanta, GA. She is a frequent speaker and author CSI and for nationally recognized professional organizations and publications. Melody's areas of expertise include billing and collections, coding and compliance, revenue enhancement, front-end hospital operations, management engineering, medical school relations and operations improvement.

Melody often speaks at national conferences on many topics including Interventional and Diagnostic Radiology coding, Internal Audit Program Development, Coding Compliance and other healthcare compliance issues. Recent speaking engagements include the national conferences of the American Healthcare Radiology Administrators (AHRA), the Radiology Business Management Association (RBMA) and the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA). Since 2003, CSI has sponsored the AHRA Annual Coding Seminar Series and Melody has spoken at the majority of these sessions as well as the Imaging Center Administrator’s Conference and other AHRA educational offerings.

Melody is a frequent author for radiology publications and writes the bi-monthly coding column for AHRA’s Radiology Management. In 2007, her article May I Take Your Order Please won the Radiology Management Outstanding Column Award. Additionally, she was the Lead Author of the Coding and Billing Chapter in the AHRA text, Financial Management in Radiology. Melody also serves as the Technical Advisor for the Interventional Pink Sheet and is on the Advisory Board of the Mammography Regulatory Report and Radiology Advisory Compliance and Reimbursement Insider. Her work has also appeared recently in RT Image, Imaging Economics, Advance for Imaging and Oncology Administrators and Auntminnie.com. Melody co-authored CSI's Coding Guides for Comprehensive Diagnostic Radiology and Interventional Radiology and authored the Advanced Coding Guide for Interventional Radiology.

Prior to founding CSI, Melody held the position of Vice-President of Billing Compliance for a large national billing company, where she was responsible for the implementation and maintenance of the billing compliance program. In a direct operational capacity, Melody provided her expertise at three Atlanta area hospitals in operations, finance and management engineering disciplines.

Melody holds a Master of Science in Health Systems (MSHS) degree and a Bachelor of Industrial Engineering (BIE) degree, both from the number one nationally ranked Industrial & Systems Engineering School at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech), in Atlanta, Georgia. She also holds the professional certification of Certified Professional Coder (CPC), Certified Professional Coder - Hospital (CPC-H), Professional Coding Specialist (PCS), Facility Coding Specialist (FCS), Advanced Coding Specialist – Radiology (ACS-RA) and Radiology Certified Coder (RCC) and is an active member of AAPC, AHRA, RBMA, HBMA, ACMCS and HCCA.