Sarah L. Goodman, MBA, CHCAF, COC, CHRI, CCP, FCS, an adjunct instructor for HCPro, is a nationally recognized speaker and author with more than 35 years of experience in the healthcare industry. She currently serves as president/CEO and principal consultant for SLG, Inc., a national chargemaster coding, standardization, and billing compliance consulting firm headquartered in Raleigh, North Carolina. Prior to founding SLG, Inc. in 1998, she was the senior chargemaster specialist at Tenet Healthcare’s corporate office in Nashville, Tennessee. Sarah was responsible for chargemaster standardizations and reviews at more than 100 facilities nationwide. In addition, she held various financial and system management positions at Lourdes Hospital, part of the Ascension Health system in Binghamton, New York, for more than 13 years.

Sarah is an active member of the North Carolina chapter of the Healthcare Financial Management Association (NCHFMA) and the AAPC. She has served in various capacities in both organizations, including the Board of Directors for NCHFMA and president for the once-active Triangle North Carolina local AAPC chapter. In March 2019, she was awarded the HFMA Founders Medal of Honor, the highest honor bestowed by the HFMA for volunteer activities at the national, regional and/or chapter levels. Sarah was also previously a consulting editor for The Coding Institute, Naples, Florida and served on the Board of Governors for the American College of Medical Coding Specialists (ACMCS). She was one of the founding members of that organization.

Moreover, Sarah was named Executive of the Year in Coding and Compliance for 2006-2007 by Cambridge Who’s Who (formerly Empire), and she has actively participated in a number of AHIMA’s Practice Councils over the years, including Clinical Terminology & Classification (2013-2015), CDI (2016-2018), EHR (2019-2020) and Revenue Cycle Management (2021-2023).

Sarah is currently a leadership board member and facility instructor for the Association of Health Care Auditors and Educators (AHCAE), and a member of the National Association of Healthcare Revenue Integrity (NAHRI) Advisory Board, for which she is co-author and editor of “NAHRI’s Core Functions of Revenue Integrity,” which is now in its second edition. Additionally, she serves as a member of the APUS Advisory Board and is a technical editor for MedLearn Publishing, a division of Panacea Healthcare Solutions.