Andrea Simien

Andrea Simien serves as Chief Operating Officer and co-founder of ADS Healthcare Solutions, a company built to help healthcare providers get paid accurately and efficiently through full-cycle revenue cycle management, credentialing, and claims strategy. Her career, which spans roughly two decades in healthcare revenue cycle management, began in patient admissions and health information management before progressing through coding, credentialing, and full-cycle billing operations. Along the way, she has held roles including Director of Health Information Management, Coding Manager, and Revenue Cycle Manager, giving her end-to-end fluency in how every stage of the revenue cycle affects a provider's financial performance and, ultimately, patient care. Simien holds a bachelor's degree in Health Information Management from Texas State University in San Marcos, Texas, and an associate's degree in the same field from Midland College. She maintains her RHIT credentials through AHIMA, the American Health Information Management Association, of which she is an active member. In her current role, she leads strategy and operations focused on producing clean claims, reducing denials, and streamlining credentialing timelines, while also optimizing billing systems and training staff to strengthen both internal operations and the client experience. Simien credits her parents with instilling the discipline, values, and grit that have sustained her throughout her career, and she believes that education opens doors while character keeps you in the room. She encourages young women entering the industry to embrace every task, however small, as an opportunity to understand the full scope of the work. Outside of her professional life, she volunteers monthly at a food bank through her church in Austin, Texas, and helps organize food drives, reflecting the same values of integrity and service that guide her leadership approach.