FORTIS - Key Persons
Dr. Nick Oberheiden is a federal attorney with 20 years experience in healthcare compliance and defending healthcare providers.
Job Titles:
- Director of Billing Optimization
- Medical Billing Specialist and Consultant
Dr. Taylor offers Fortis? clients a clinical and medical perspective. Although a practitioner by trait himself, Steve has spent the last two decades chiefly helping fellow healthcare businesses and providers navigate through audits and healthcare fraud investigations. In this capacity, Steve has assisted hundreds of physician groups, psychologists, psychiatrists, surgical facilities, counselors, and doctors of almost every specialty rectify the mistakes that got them on the radar with CMS, the FBI, or insurance auditors in the first place?their billing and coding.
Dr. Stephen Taylor has 25 years as a medical billing specialist and consultant in medical, chiropractic, nursing, and physical therapy.
Job Titles:
- Health Care Consultant
- Billing Expert
- Director of Coding
Ms. Beverly Gibson is the kind of billing expert every healthcare business should want to have on their team. Beverly is a certified professional coder and coding instructor (AAPC, CPC/CPC-I), a certified professional medical auditor (AAPC, CPMA), a certified internal fraud healthcare auditor (AIHC, CIFHA), among other certifications.
At Fortis, Beverly oversees all evaluation and management services, coding compliance, and billing under CPT, ICD-10, and HCPCS.
Ms. Beverly Gibson has been a health care consultant for more than 25 years and specializes in medical record auditing, E/M training, and audit risk mitigation.
Roger Bach is a former Sergeant with the Medicaid Fraud Control Unit (MFCU), a former Supervisory Special DEA Agent, and a former Special Agent with the U.S. Justice Department, Office of Inspector General.
As an investigator, agent, and private practice consultant, Roger has seen it all. Importantly, in his more than 30 years of federal law enforcement and service under the Attorney General, Roger has seen how innocent mistakes and unmotivated or unqualified staff have the potential to take down an entire company. Once a claim is billed to an insurance company or to CMS or any intermediary, a plethora of healthcare fraud laws apply?most importantly the False Claims Act.
At Fortis, Roger?s main task is to coordinate all compliance efforts to avoid encounters with law enforcement, auditors, or investigators.