Deanna Upston
Senior Coding Quality Auditor
Deanna Upston, Senior Coding Quality Auditor
CPC, CCS, CPMA, COSC
Deanna is a Senior Coding Quality Auditor for The Haugen Consulting Group with over 20 years of health care industry experience. Her introduction was through medical assisting, which she enjoyed for several years. Once she was established at a surgeon’s office, she started coding their surgical cases and discovered that was her favorite part of the day. Deanna has experience working on the professional fee side of coding, audit, education and compliance serving coders and physicians. She has put together multiple education sessions for both provider and coder. She also has experience working as an analyst in which she validated the integrity of editing logic during the implementation of claim scrubbing software. She is a Certified Professional Coder (CPC), Certified Professional Medical Auditor (CPMA), and Certified Orthopedic Surgery Coder (COSC).
During her free time, she loves the outdoors, especially hiking and exploring her beautiful home state of Colorado with her husband Craig, and their dog Rowdy.