Meet the Presenter

Sonal Patel
Associate Consultant
Acevedo Consulting

Sonal joined Acevedo Consulting as a remote healthcare compliance expert and associate consultant. She has over 10 years of experience in multi-specialty healthcare coding and auditing. She is a champion for proactive compliance and clinical documentation integrity. Sonal also has over 5 years of experience working directly with and supporting healthcare lawyers with strategies and analyses to overturn denials with private and government payors.

She is passionate about her commitment to serving physician practices, hospices, and hospital systems in all of their coding and compliance initiatives.

Sonal proudly holds certifications as a Certified Professional Coder (CPC) and Certified Professional Medical Auditor (CPMA) from the AAPC. She is also certified by the Practice Management Institute as a Certified Medical Coder (CMC). She is highly proficient in ICD-10-CM and stands ready to master ICD-11-CM when it becomes a reality in the United States.