Alicia has decades of clinical and administrative healthcare experience. Her areas of expertise include professional revenue cycle and payment integrity, documentation and coding compliance, auditing and monitoring, practice management, and compliance program implementation.

Alicia provides advisory services to attorneys, healthcare administrators, providers, and organizations. She frequently works with business litigation and health law practices on fraud and abuse intervention and providing independent and objective assessments for both plaintiff’s and defense teams.

She  works closely with clients on both routine and complex documentation and coding reviews. She provides in-depth claims  data analysis, education, and assists providers with understanding best practices, and how to identify and mitigate risk of improper payments and missed opportunities. Alicia assists clients with identifying potential risk while optimizing revenue, developing corrective action plans, and compliance program development and implementation.

Alicia served as the Director of Compliance for the American Academy of Professional Coders (AAPC).  She has worked with some of the top consulting practices, worked full time as a subject matter expert for a healthcare law firm, and was a Family Practice Administrator for over a decade.

Alicia has presented educational training boot camps and seminars nationally on compliance, documentation and coding, and practice management. She was a medical billing and coding instructor at a community college. She is a frequent author for online physician blogs, and journals.