Deborah is an executive consultant with Karen Zupko & Associates and a nationally sought-after leader in the industry. She is passionate about assisting physicians and hospitals in improving their coding, documentation, and business operations to maintain compliance and improve revenue. Deborah holds multiple coding certifications, including Certified Professional Medical Auditor, and is a certified Clinical Documentation Improvement Practitioner. Deborah brings over forty years of healthcare industry experience as a practice administrator, medical record auditor, clinical documentation improvement practitioner, and sought-after speaker, author and educator. She has worked with a variety of medical specialties. She works with physicians, hospitals, and outpatient facilities, both small and large, and provides practice assessments, revenue cycle guidance, coding, auditing, CDI development, education, and project management. She also provides litigation support to attorneys nationally for their physician and health-system clients.

Deborah combines teaching with practical advice on coding and revenue cycle issues for many national organizations. She has numerous book and publishing credits, including publications for the American Medical Association, Delmar Publishing, and the Society for Critical Care Medicine. She has also developed coding program curricula for organizations, including IU Health and Martin University.

She currently serves on the ICD-10 Monitor Editorial Board and Indiana Health Information Management Association Executive Board of Directors as the Treasurer. She is the past president of the Indiana Health Information Management Association and the past president of the American Academy of Professional Coders National Advisory Board. Deborah has served on the CPT Editorial Panel and the editorial board of Contexo Media. She is the 2017 AHIMA Triumph Literacy Legacy Award Recipient.