Debra Slaughter, CPC, Adds Valuable Healthcare Patient Accounting and Billing Expertise to the National Corporate Healthcare Integrity and Investigative Firm BlickenWolf LLC

Chicago, IL, (March 18, 2005)—The corporate healthcare investigative and integrity services firm of BlickenWolf LLC, is pleased to announce the addition of Debra Slaughter, CPC, as a manager. With over 20 years of experience in healthcare patient accounting and billing, Slaughter will assist clients in identifying operational and procedural issues that could lead to compliance violations and lost revenue. Her role with BlickenWolf is extensive and includes claim analysis and record review as part of corporate investigations, compliance training, risk assessments and diagnostic reviews, client assistance in meeting requirements of a Corporate Integrity Agreement, and billing system assessments and strategies for improved billing and coding processes.

As an experienced instructor of courses on inpatient and outpatient billing, medical terminology, and medical office assistant training, Slaughter is also involved in curriculum development and review as a member of the Medical Assistant/Coding/Transcriptionist Advisory Board at South Suburban College in South Holland, Illinois. Prior to joining BlickenWolf, Slaughter owned DMS Services, a consulting firm advising healthcare clients in areas of billing and coding development, compliance, and collections. Debra has also held senior billing management positions for a number of healthcare provider organizations.

BlickenWolf LLC, has a national reputation for providing high quality investigative and integrity services tailored to meet individual client's needs. Their experienced and skilled professionals have extensive and on-point experience in healthcare and law enforcement to aid in the efficient resolution of complex and sensitive issues. BlickenWolf serves hospital systems, physicians and other providers as well as pharmaceutical and device manufacturing companies, claims payers, and law firms and offers a unique understanding of how the government approaches issues combined with how healthcare delivery really works to assist clients in dealing with compliance related activities and in the prevention, detection and correction of fraud and abuse.