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Latest BC Advantage Issue
Issue Date: January / February 2020
Here we are. 15 years. As we move into our 15th year of printing BC Advantage magazine, I wanted to share my sincere thanks to everyone. I mean it. Everyone.
We have been blessed to have met so many wonderful people during our time at conferences and meetings and our success has been because of each and every marvelous person we have come across. Our readers (you!) are passionate about their careers and most have an undying thirst for knowledge and information that helps both them and their employers. Our editorial board members are equally as passionate about providing articles that are timely, well-researched, and brimming with information that helps our readers. We are nothing without them.
I remember our first issue, when the night before we were scheduled to go to print, we had creative differences with the graphic designer. The cover story was about medical records security during a hurricane or other serious natural disaster. Our graphic designer was going through an “arty” phase and wanted to invert the colors, so the entire page had the hurricane’s white clouds in black. It was hard to tell what it was and didn’t match well with the story, so there were some choice words (he is no longer with us), but we needed to run with it due to poor timing. My wife still refers to it as the worst cover picture ever.
Our first conference was with Optum at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, where we based when we originally started the company. We dragged boxes of magazines across the main gambling floor, ruining luggage wheels (yes, we put the boxes in our old luggage –doh!), and learned a lot. We got every magazine out that day and met so many wonderful people. Everyone was friendly, helpful, and eager to provide feedback and advice or answer questions. We met Sean Weiss that day, and the rest, they say, is history.
There are so many people who have helped us these past 15 years and all deserve a mention here, but there are some who have been around in some way since the beginning and helped in ways we could have never expected. A special thanks to Sean Weiss, Steve Verno, Marge McQuade, David Jakielo, Kathy Young, Suzanne Lappen, Liz Jones, Nancy Clements and the PMI crew, Julie Orton Van, Darlene Boschert, Merrilee Severino, Tammy Harlan, Sherri Poe Bernard, Robin Linker, Mindi Rothans, and James Summerlin. To those I may have missed, I apologize. I appreciate you more than I can ever explain.
Finally, I want to thank our current team—Nichole Anderson, Amber Joffrion, Ashley Knight, and Merrilee Severino. You are all so important to our success.
I can’t wait to see what the next 15 years brings!
We are always interested in hearing from any industry
experts who would like to get published in our
national magazine. Email us at nichole@billing-coding.com
to request a copy of our editorial board benefits.
