Jill Olmstead MSN, ANP-C, CCS-P, FAANP

Jill Olmstead is a Nurse Practitioner at Providence St. Joseph Health in Fullerton, California. She has practiced as an NP for over 20 years specializing in gastroenterology. Her practice includes evaluating and managing new patient GI consultations, follow-up visits, and diagnostic Flexible sigmoidoscopies. She developed a passion for understanding the language of coding and became credentialed as a certified coder, a clinical documentation improvement specialist, and a risk adjustment coder.

She was appointed by the American Medical Association (AMA) Board of Trustees to represent the American Nurses Association as an alternate AMA HCPAC Advisor for the CPT Editorial Panel. She was recently appointed to the American Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ASGE) Reimbursement Committee. Jill was inducted as a Fellow in the American Association of Nurse Practitioners.

She graduated from California State University in Long Beach in 1997 with a Master’s of Science degree in Nursing and from Alfred University in New York in 1982 with her BSN. She has been published in Gastroenterology Nursing, the Journal for the American Academy for Nurse Practitioners and the Journal for Nurse Practitioners. She is a new column editor specializing in coding and billing topics for The Nurse Practitioner Journal. She received the 2012 Nurse Practitioner Distinction of the Year Award from the California Association for Nurse Practitioners. Jill is a Past President of the California Association for Nurse Practitioners, Past President of the American College of Nurse Practitioners, and Past President of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners Scholarships and Grant Foundation.