NCAMSS ANNUAL MEETING, May 7-11th
ABOUT OUR SPEAKERS:
Tracey A. Dreibelbis, LMBT
Ms. Dreibelbis is a Nationally Certified, North Carolina Licensed Massage & Bodywork
Therapist specializing in On-Site Corporate & Event Massage & is currently pursuing a
certification in Health Coaching.
Ms. Dreibelbis also offers full circle family services, from natural fertility massage to
teaching parents how to massage their newborns. As a doula Tracey has provided
relaxation and care at the beginning of life, as well as hospice massage for those who
are in their last earthly days. She's sees firsthand how people have benefited from
relaxation, regardless of what stage of life they are in.
Arthur D. Snow, Jr., MD, Chair, AMA-OMSS Governing Council
Arthur D. Snow, Jr., MD, is Family Medicine trained and Board Certified. He is in
private practice, with a focus on Geriatrics, in a suburb of Kansas City. Dr. Snow works
at a Skilled Nursing Facility and sees patients at a 446-bed community hospital, in the
office, in Assisted Living Facilities, and makes home visits. He is the founding member
of a Family Medicine group, which grew to six persons, and was also Board Certified in
Emergency Medicine working in an ER for 25 years. Dr. Snow was trained at the
University of Kansas School of Medicine, where he also completed his Family Medicine
Residency. He has been actively involved in all hospital committees, including the
Credentials Committee for 10 years, Chairing Addiction Recovery for 8 years, and
serving as the Family Medicine Department Chairman twice. He is currently President of
the Shawnee Mission Medical Center Medical Staff.
Dr. Snow has been active in state and national activities, holding the positions of
President of the Kansas Academy of Family Physicians, the Kansas Medical Society
and is the current Immediate Past President of the Kansas Medical Directors
Association (attending and medical directors of long term care facilities). He is the
Immediate Past Chair of the Kansas Health Care Stabilization Fund (the Kansas excess
malpractice insurance provider), chairs the county medical society preceptor program
(for national CMS staff the past few years), serves as Family Medicine representative to
the CMS Contractor Advisory Committee (CAC), and was appointed by the Secretary of
HHS in 2007 to the Practicing Physicians Advisory Council (PPAC). He has been active
as a Delegate from Kansas to the American Medical Association, and was elected to
the Governing Council of the AMA Organized Medical Staff Section in 2006, where he
currently serves as Chair.
Linda Bunton
Senior Director, ChoiceHealth, Inc.
Novant Health, Inc.
Linda is the Senior Director of ChoiceHealth a subsidiary corporation of Novant Health,
Inc. ChoiceHealth was established January 1, 2001. ChoiceHealth’s services and
programs include: managed care contracting for both fee for service contracts and
performance based contracts, delegated payor credentialing, payor enrollment services,
supply chain services, Epic Electronic Health record sales, as well as other lines of
business that are specifically designed to support the business of running an
independent medical practice.
Linda has 27 years of experience in healthcare administration. She has been employed
with Novant Health for 14 of those years, initially as the Director of The Presbyterian
Health Network, a PHO aligned with Presbyterian Hospital, and now as the Senior
Director of ChoiceHealth. As Senior Director of ChoiceHealth, Linda is responsible for
the operations and strategic development of a multi-state physician network. Prior to
her work with Novant, Linda managed physician practices for both independent
physicians and healthcare systems. She also has experience in healthcare strategic
planning.
Linda earned her Master of Business Administration degree from the Babcock Graduate
School of Management, Wake Forest University and a BA from Davidson College. .
Linda serves as the Vice-Chairman and Secretary on the ChoiceHealth Board of
Directors.
Linda’s most important role is that of wife and mother. She is married with three
children.
Carlye Hendershot, RN, MSN-FNP, LNCC, CPHRM, Risk Management & Patient
Safety Consultant, MAG Mutual Insurance Company
Carlye provides consultation to insured clients in western North Carolina, including
programs and services designed to assist healthcare providers and administrators
reduce risk exposure and improve patient safety. She has previous experience as an inhouse legal nurse consultant with Van Winkle Law Firm, and practiced clinically for
many years as an RN and family nurse practitioner in varied settings in NC, GA and FL.
Allan Tarleton, Van Winkle Law Firm, Asheville, NC
Allan Tarleton has practiced law in Asheville since 1980, most of that time as a partner
with the Van Winkle Firm. For the last 20 years he has concentrated his practice in
healthcare litigation. He has obtained favorable results in jury trials, administrative
hearings, and appeals and has proven to be an effective negotiator before trial and in
some cases before suit is even filed. Allan attended undergraduate school at Wake
Forest University , graduating cum laude with a B. A. in English in 1974. While at Wake
Forest , he participated in studies in Venice , Italy. He was a staff writer and city editor
for the Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington (NC) Daily News before returning to Wake
Forest for law school. He spent so much time in the law library, he married one of the
librarians. He makes his own pie crust from scratch, and he can juggle.
Kathryn Enchelmayer, MS, MHSA, CPCS, CPMSM, Director, Credentialing &
Privileging, Department of Veterans Affairs
Ms. Enchelmayer has 37 years of experience in Federal health care including the last
twenty-two years in the oversight and management of the medical staff process for the
Veterans Health Administration.
She is a graduate of the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill with a Bachelor of Arts
in Speech and a Master of Science in Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology as
well as Florida International University with a Masters in Health Services Administration.
Renee Aird-Dengler, RN, MSN, CPMSM, CPCS
Ms. Aird-Dengler is the current Director of Medical & Professional Affairs for Advocate
Health Care (largest fully integrated health care delivery system in Metropolitan
Chicago.
She also serves as Clinical Faculty for TJC and Clinical Surveyor for NCQA Surveys.
She is the Coauthor of “Medical Staff Handbook”, a TJC publication and the Past Chair
of the NAMSS Education Council.