Coding and Documentation

Mark Morsch is the co-inventor of the LifeCode^® Natural Language Processing (NLP) engine with eight patents on NLP technology used in computer-assisted coding (CAC), auditing and clinical documentation improvement (CDI).

 He served as co-chair of the HIMSS Health Story Project. Morsch is an author and speaker on the effective use of NLP in health care and has over 20 years of experience developing NLP solutions. Morsch was named an Optum^® Fellow in 2012.

Ralph Wuebker, MD, MBA, serves as Chief Medical Officer of Optum360^®. In this role, he provides clinical leadership within the organization and works closely with hospital leaders to ensure strong revenue cycle, utilization management (UM) and compliance programs.

An expert in CMS regulations, medical necessity compliance, utilization review, denials management and program integrity efforts, Dr. Wuebker also serves as an industry thought leader and editorial advisor to the media.

Throughout his career, Dr. Wuebker served as a hospitalist and instructor of medicine at Washington University School of Medicine and St. Louis Children’s Hospital, as well as medical director for the Midwest Region of Great-West Healthcare.

Lorri Sides is a registered nurse and senior director of product management for Optum360 with over 20 years of professional experience in health care and more than 15 years in health care technology.

She has worked in multiple areas of health care resulting in a diverse resume that lends itself to a unique perspective. Throughout her career she has successfully leveraged this unique perspective to solve health care problems through the use of technology.

Anne Robertucci currently serves as the director of strategic product management. She previously held the position of senior director of corporate coding in the Revenue Cycle Division at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC).

Her prior role included overseeing the corporate coding division, which included both hospital-based coding and professional-fee coding and employed 375+ staff consisting of coders, auditors, CDI specialists and coding educators.

Robertucci received her bachelor’s degree in health information management and her master’s degree in health information systems from the University of Pittsburgh and has worked in the HIM and IT field for over 19+ years.