During 30+ years serving the healthcare industry, Lamar has provided consulting services for more than 500 clients in 30 states.
Lamar co-authored one of the AMA's best selling books on reimbursement and is a Fellow and Certified Healthcare Financial Professional in the Healthcare Financial Management Association, a member of the American Institute of CPAs, Georgia Society of
CPAs, and has been an Arbitrator for American Health Lawyers Association.
Lamar has provided litigation support in over 100 cases and has been admitted as an expert in multiple US District Courts, State Courts and Administrative Hearings. He has testified for plaintiffs and defendants, as well as for providers, payors and government clients. With HLN, Lamar has served many of the best recognized national healthcare law firms, as well as many of the top healthcare provider organizations and insurors.
Lamar directs HLN's team of senior consultants with specific expertise, such as in coding, clinical and quality issues, and he is typically the testifying expert.
Prior to creating Health Law Network in 2003, Lamar was founder and chairman of Healthcare Management Advisors (HMA) from 1990 to 2002, which provided compliance, reimbursement, coding, managed care, clinical data and financial management expertise to over 1,600 hospitals and hundreds of other healthcare providers nationwide and internationally. Under his direction, HMA also introduced Georgia's first medical record coder certification program and created the nation's first video-based medical record ICD and CPT coder training program. While at HMA, Lamar developed and managed two of the largest cost report group appeals in Georgia history and managed HMA's growth to over 50 employees and 50 contractors. Clients included: Hospital Corporation of America, Tenet Physician Specialty Corporation, Veterans Administration, North Broward Hospital District, Memorial Hermann Healthcare System, Emory Healthcare, Baptist Healthcare System, and numerous other healthcare organizations and law firms nationwide. His equity interest in HMA was privately sold in 2002.
From 1981 to 1990, he was a co-founder and the Audit and Healthcare Consulting Partner for Hyatt, Imler, Ott & Blount (HIOB), which became the 10th largest CPA firm in Atlanta. Lamar was also President of HOSPLAN Micro Systems (an affiliate), which developed and marketed microcomputer-based software for medical records, budgeting, and rate setting to over 600 hospitals nationwide. He designed the RatePlan procedural rate optimization system in 1983, which is still used by 3M Consulting Services as a key component of their Comprehensive Pricing Solution service. 3M Health Information Systems purchased HIOB & HOSPLAN.
From 1974 to 1981, Lamar was with the international CPA firm of Ernst & Young, where he became a Manager, supervising healthcare audits, Medicare & Medicaid cost reports, rate setting and feasibility studies. He assisted the national office in several revisions of the KOSTPAK cost report preparation system.
Lamar passed the CPA exam in 1973, while attending Georgia Southern University, where he obtained a BBA in Accounting in 1974.
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