Debra Rossi is a Director in the Coding, Compliance, and Operational Excellence division. She has over 30 years of healthcare revenue cycle and coding experience spanning academic medical centers, community hospitals, faculty practice plans, and large private practices. She has consulting experience in all areas of practice management and is a recognized industry expert in the area of coding, compliance, and revenue cycle.

Rossi conducts educational and training seminars and has overseen comprehensive coding and compliance programs at several of New York’s leading healthcare institutions. She also has a successful record with development and implementation of revenue integrity programs, denial management, and risk adjustment (HCC coding).

Rossi is the recipient of the 2016 Health Ethics Trust Best Practice Award. She is also a co-inventor of a patent pending, award winning coding tool focused on risk diagnosis coding identification and improvement.

Emily Rizos is a Director at VMG Health and is based in the Dallas office. Her focus is on providing valuation and transaction advisory consulting services within the healthcare services industry.

Rizos provides fair market value analyses for purposes of regulatory compliance and management planning, valuations in support of financial reporting requirements, and consulting and other transaction advisory services. She has significant expertise in valuations related to acute care hospitals, ambulatory surgery centers, urgent care centers, physician groups, home health and hospice agencies, diagnostic imaging centers, radiation therapy centers, and several other ancillary healthcare businesses. The clients she primarily serves are not-for-profit health systems and for-profit healthcare providers. Rizos currently serves as the industry expert lead for VMG Health’s Urgent Care Affinity Group and is a member of the Urgent Care Association of America.

Prior to VMG Health, Rizos graduated magna cum laude with a Bachelor of Business Administration in Finance from Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas. She also minored in psychology and international business.

She currently holds the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation through the CFA Institute and is a member of the Dallas Fort Worth CFA Society. In addition, she has been published in the Journal of Urgent Care Medicine and has presented on CLE-accredited webinars for both the American Bar Association and American Health Law Association. She currently serves as Vice Chair of Educational Programming for the American Health Law Association’s Business Law and Governance Practice Group and Healthcare Transactions Affinity Group.

Lukas Recio is a Director in the Buy/Sell Side Due Diligence and Business Valuation Divisions of VMG Health in the Dallas office. He provides consulting, transaction advisory, and business valuation services to clients within the healthcare services industry.

Recio graduated from Texas A&M University Mays Business School where he earned a Bachelor of Business Administration in Accounting and a Master of Science in Finance. Before joining VMG Health, he gained valuable experience at PwC’s Dallas office as a part of their Banking and Capital Markets assurance team. Recio is currently a licensed Certified Public Accountant (CPA) in Texas.

Matt McKenzie is a Director in the Professional Service Agreements Division at VMG Health and is based in the Denver office. His focus is in providing valuation and consulting services for compensation arrangements within the healthcare services industry. He specializes in valuations related to clinical compensation models, on-call coverage, physician administrative and executive services, subsidy coverage, management services, and quality initiatives.

McKenzie serves as a contributor to VMG Health’s FMV Tools™ which allows users to quickly establish compensation levels for employed and independent contractor physicians in various roles based on systematic and unbiased guidelines.

McKenzie was a Distinguished Scholar at Southern Methodist University and graduated with a Bachelor of Business Administration in Finance with honors from the Edwin L. Cox School of Business. Additionally, he holds a Bachelor of Science in Economics with Financial Applications from the Dedman College of the Humanities and Sciences at SMU. McKenzie is currently designated as a Certified Valuation Analyst (CVA).

Nick Taglioli is a Director in VMG Health’s Dallas office. He specializes in providing valuation, transaction advisory, and consulting services to businesses within the healthcare industry.

Taglioli’s experience includes providing valuation and advisory services related to transactions, joint ventures, financial reporting requirements, federal tax compliance, and commercial litigation. Taglioli’s experience spans numerous subindustries including acute care and specialty hospitals, ambulatory surgery centers, diagnostic imaging centers, physician practices, oncology centers, skilled nursing facilities, and urgent care centers. In addition to the extensive valuation experience for transaction planning, he has consulted on numerous black box reimbursement analyses for joint venture, restructuring, and denovo business development purposes. Clients include for-profit and not-for-profit health systems, ancillary services providers, development companies across several healthcare industry subspecialties, and other publicly owned and privately held healthcare entities.

Prior to VMG Health, Taglioli was a senior analyst at Hill Schwartz Spilker Keller, LLC in the Business Valuation and Litigation Consulting Groups where he performed valuation, transaction advisory, and litigation consulting services for the firm’s corporate and private clients. Taglioli received a Bachelor of Business Administration from Texas State University, and a Master of Business Administration from Texas Tech University.

Patricia Li is a Senior Manager in VMG Health’s Coding, Compliance and Operational Excellence division. Prior to joining VMG Health, Li served as a multi-specialty practice manager and senior administrator in Connecticut and New York. In Li’s 12+ years of experience in healthcare administration and practice management, she has urgently transformed operational workflows, led provider credentialing processes, managed practice expansions, and overseen Electronic Medical Record implementation initiatives.

Many of Li’s clients rely on her human resources management and support, business and financial performance improvement strategies, federal and state compliance management, and provider trainings. She is deeply invested in the mission of VMG Health, not only as an unparalleled service provider, but as an inclusive organization that honors diversity and excellence for women in business.