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 About the Author:
Linda M. Van Horn, M.B.A.
is the President/CEO of 21st Century Edge, a leading edge healthcare
management consulting firm that specializes in working with pain management practices
throughout the United States on the business aspects of establishing and improving
pain practice operations and profitability. Ms. Van Horn has over twenty years of
professional experience including six years as the President/CEO of 21st
Century Edge, five years as the COO of The Pain Institute where she helped establish
pain management services at 22 locations in two states in five years, and five years
as a Senior Manager at Deliotte & Touche, a major accounting firm. Ms. Van Horn
has a BS in Computer Science and an MBA from Rockhurst University in Kansas City,
Missouri.
About the contributing
author:
David Vaughn, J.D., CPC
is a health care attorney with Vaughn, Miller & Fix, L.L.C., a prominent legal
firm that specializes in working with anesthesia and pain management practices throughout
the United States on the legal aspects of practice management such as coding audits,
compliance plans, anti-kickback issues, Stark regulations, hospital contract negotiations,
insurance contract review, articles of incorporation, shareholder agreements, and
mergers and acquisitions. Mr. Vaughn has over twenty-six years of professional experience
including defending clients in federal healthcare investigations, audits, indictments,
trials, sentencing, and medical license revocation hearings. Mr. Vaughn has a J.D.
from Louisiana State University and is a Certified Professional Coder.
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