Stephanie Cecchini, CPC, CEMC

Stephanie L. Cecchini, CPC, CEMC, VP of Product Management at WGU and former VP Products at AAPC is a senior executive sharing 20 years’ ambulatory healthcare business and higher education experience with these communities. The emphasis of her career has focused on innovating around multi-specialty physician groups, and commercial and government insurance payers. More recently she set her sights on enabling all learners to access the education of their choice, anywhere, on any device, internationally. Her leadership experience, strategic planning, business development, and P&L responsibility is honed by her passion for learning and healthcare. Broad experiences across the healthcare and education industries with providers, health systems, professional associations, Health IT solutions, and payers, coupled with avid public speaking, have given her a strong reputation as a thought leader in health information management, healthcare compliance, and physician RCM. Stephanie is LION, connected to 5000+ healthcare and higher ed business professionals.

- 20+ years’ healthcare experience focused on interdisciplinary medical coding and auditing teams

- Strong execution mindset focused on strategic business outcomes and ROI

- Proven track record of developing and securing new business and client management

- Successful product management with $100M+ software development

- 10+ years’ experience in product R&D, implementation, management, and revenue responsibility

- SME in professional fee reimbursements

- National recognition as a thought leader (Key Note public speaker, published author, etc.)

- Highly analytical and data-driven

- Exceptional communicator

- Highly credible with physicians and the healthcare community

- Strong business acumen and stakeholder management skills

- Flexible mindset and comfort with ambiguity and evolving priorities

- Entrepreneurial spirit and creative thinking