Deborah Hale, CCS,  President of Administrative Consultant Service, LLC, (ACS) is a Certified Coding Specialist with twenty five years of experience in Health Care Management including  Administration, Health Information Management, Clinical Documentation Improvement, Resource Outcome Management and Utilization Review.

She is a member of the American Health Information Management and the Health Care Finance Management Associations.  Deborah has served as a featured speaker for numerous national, state and local conferences including the Healthcare Finance Management Association, American Health Information Management  Association, Medical Residency programs and numerous Case Management conferences.

She authored the book “Observation Status: A Complete Guide to Compliant Site of Service Destinations” published by HCPro in October of 2006, as well as numerous articles.

For the past 21 years, she has provided coding, billing and clinical documentation improvement consultation for hospitals throughout the United States including New York state's severity refined DRG system.