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Maria T. Bounos

Coding Suite Product Manager

Maria joined Wolters Kluwer in the fall of 2007 and is currently the Product Manager for Regulatory and Reimbursement software solutions. She is responsible for product development, maintenance and enhancements and business development. She has twenty years of experience in healthcare including nursing, coding, and healthcare consulting.

Specializing in regulatory compliance, reimbursement, and process improvement, she has led improvement projects that have delivered significant financial benefit for large academic medical centers as well as mid-sized community hospitals and critical access hospitals.

Prior to joining Wolters Kluwer, Maria was a Senior Manager with GE Healthcare and led large revenue cycle projects, developed service line offerings and mentored consultants. Prior to GE, Maria was Vice-President Operations for a national management-consulting firm, specializing in reimbursement, operational improvement, and regulatory issues. The firm provided on-site consulting services as well as web-based applications to help hospitals review and maintain their charge description master (CDM), outsource CDM management, perform outpatient and inpatient coding compliance reviews, and assist in answering corporate integrity agreements. In this role, Maria was responsible for developing and maintaining the operating budget, developing and implementing the training program for new employees, sales and implementation of web-based applications, and being the client executive for onsite engagements, as well as, providing consulting services to clients.

Maria has a Masters Degree in Public Management with Concentration in Health Systems from Carnegie Mellon University and a B.S. degree in Nursing from Carlow College. For calendar year 2006, she was the Greater Pittsburgh Chapter President of the American Academy of Professional Coders.