Traci Richards, Publisher/CEO, has spent over ten years in the healthcare industry. She was a founding member and Vice President of Operations of National Provider Credentialing Service (“NPCS”), an NCQA certified credentials verification organization, which was sold to a reciprocal insurance company based in Atlanta, GA. Additionally, Traci has worked as a consultant for various physician organizations and conducted network development for both physician organizations and large HMOs...
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Stephen M. Schuster, Jr., Esq., has spent over thirty years in the health care industry. He has been general counsel for a publicly traded... Read more »
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