Commissioner
Lorie Mills, RHIT, CCS
Lorie Mills, RHIT, CCS, is the owner and Sr. Consultant at LBMConsulting, LLC in Hattiesburg, MS. Mills has served three terms as president of the Mississippi Health Information Management Association and has been an active member of the MSHIMA Board of Directors for 13 years. Mills has served on the Advocacy and Policy Committee of AHIMA for three years and has been a member of the House of Delegates of AHIMA for nine years. Over her career, Mills has had the opportunity to be a speaker for the Mississippi Hospital Association, Mississippi HIM Association, Tennessee HIM Association, and the Mississippi Health Care Finance Association. Mills co-authored the article “Red Flags for Myocardial Infarctions Coding and CDI” published in the July 2019 Journal of AHIMA. She has worked on a project with The American College of Cardiology to develop ICD-10 code I5A, Non-traumatic myocardial injury, which was released in the October 2021 coding updates. Mills began her career in 1994 and has specialized in coding and documentation integrity with an emphasis on provider education. Mills has three children and resides in Hattiesburg, MS.