Mike Stitcher has over 20 years of experience serving health care clients. He is currently focused on areas including payment reform, changing clinical analytics requirements, and clinical integration among providers. He has led numerous consulting engagements for leading academic medical centers, health systems, and other health care organizations.

Mr. Stitcher has extensive experience in the negotiation and facilitation of changing reimbursement methodologies between payors, providers, and regulators; resolving challenging coding and billing matters; and developing and implementing strategic performance improvement plans. He has conducted market demand studies, clinical program development analyses, merger and clinical integration assistance, developed business plans, and certificate-of-need assistance. He has also led engagements for severity-based coding audits; severity-based clinical documentation improvement programs for hospitals, physicians, and integrated delivery systems; fraud investigations; ICD-10 implementation planning; and coding and documentation risk assessments.

In addition to consulting experience, Mr. Stitcher served as director of Reimbursement and Clinical Economics at the University of Maryland Medical System and senior vice president of Clinical Economics at Mercy Medical Center.

Education

• University of Maryland, Baltimore County
  B.S., Emergency Health Systems, 1985

Honors

• Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA)
  Follmer Bronze Medal Award
• HFMA
  Certification Chair
• HFMA
  ANI Speaker, San Diego, CA, 2007

Professional Affiliations

• Healthcare Financial Management Association