The day to day management of HCCS is the responsibility of seven individuals with over 180 years in the health care field, in compliance, medical practice management consulting, and new product development. With the establishment of HCCS, they have brought their experience and expertise together to address the urgent compliance training needs of medical schools, teaching and community hospitals, and large physician groups.

Mitchell Diamond, CEO

Mitchell Diamond has identified, targeted and developed solutions during the last forty years to address some of the most pressing problems faced by hospitals and physicians. In 1969 he created a secured financing program that eased the burden of healthcare providers carrying huge medical receivables. In the mid 1970’s he developed the first electronic billing service directly to Medicaid for healthcare providers in the New York area. This was followed by the first electronic direct Medicare billing for physicians in New York State.

During the 1980’s, with several partners, he built DX Systems for Health, the largest hospital-based physician practice management company in the metropolitan New York area. The company was sold in 1984 to Cycare Systems (a NYSE company), later a part of McKesson HBOC. In 1987, Mr. Diamond helped found MedE America, a company that pioneered systems for electronic patient insurance eligibility verification, now used nationwide, and the company also computerized Medicaid patient enrollment, greatly improving hospital cash flow. MedE America was one of the early acquisitions of Healtheon Web/MD.

In 1998, he and his healthcare expert partners founded Health Care Compliance Strategies (HCCS) to educate hospital professional and medical staff on government laws affecting the industry. HCCS is today one of the largest, most experienced healthcare online training companies with hundreds of hospital clients and many hundreds of thousands of online users.

Ben Diamond, President
Ben Diamond has 20 years of systems experience in the healthcare field. As a Systems Engineer and Special Projects Manager at MedE America, now a part of Healtheon-Web/MD, he designed and implemented a large-scale network scanning and viewing solution that enabled New York City Pre-Natal Care programs to reduce the documentation and enrollment turnaround time for patients from upwards of eight months down to 48 hours.

In his previous employment, Mr. Diamond was the Senior Network Systems Engineer for the Eastman Kodak Company’s "Office Imaging" division. At Kodak, Mr. Diamond designed and implemented scores of custom networking and integration solutions, enabling Kodak and its customers to streamline their processes, reduce costs, and maximize efficiency.

Ben Diamond has been the operations manager at HCCS since inception in 1998 and became President in 2006.

Mr. Diamond has published several articles on technology which can be found in Sys Admin Magazine! (CMP). brd@hccs.com

William Sacks, Vice President

Mr. Sacks has over thirty years of experience in healthcare management as a consultant, medical practice manager and faculty practice plan director. Mr. Sacks has consulted to medical groups and academic medical centers on Medicare and Medicaid audit issues, as well as on faculty practice restructuring, reimbursement and billing system issues, and accounts receivable management. He has spoken nationally and hosted webinars on Corporate and Professional Compliance, on the Responsible Conduct of Research and Conflicts of Interest.

Mr. Sacks served as the Director of the Clinical Faculty Practice Plans at Temple University, where he was responsible for the administration of the practices of 275 full time faculty members. Mr. Sacks left Temple to assume the position of Executive Director of Professional Services at the University of California, Los Angeles where he developed the University’s first audit process to evaluate compliance with Medicare, Medi-Cal (Medicaid) and Teaching Physician requirements. Mr. Sacks co-founded HCCS in 1998.  billsacks@hccs.com

Jacqueline Tesser, Vice President - Sales

Ms. Tesser has 25 years of experience in healthcare consulting, business development, and marketing. She served as the President of Health Provider Computer Services, which developed the first tape-to-tape electronic billing for Medicaid and Medicare in New York. Later, as a member of the executive team at Itel’s Medical Services Division, she was responsible for sales and for developing and marketing its new practice management billing and consulting services.

In the 1980’s, she cofounded and served as the President of DX Systems for Health, a hospital-based physician practice management firm in New York. This firm was purchased by CyCare, and is now part of McKesson. Most recently she was one of the founders of and the Senior Vice President of Sales for MedE America, a national firm involved in electronic insurance eligibility verification, Medicaid patient enrollment and electronic medical billing transactions (now a part of Healtheon Web/MD). jt@hccs.com

Lise Rauzi, CHC, Vice President - Training Development
Ms. Rauzi has over twenty-five years experience in health care as a consultant and health care compliance educator. She has consulted with and provided training for over 1,000 medical groups and academic medical centers on Medicare and other payor compliance, HIPAA compliance, and practice management. She has spoken on these and other topics to audiences as large as 4,000.

She was a Senior Consultant with CSC Healthcare for four years where she specialized in managing projects such as Physician Hospital Organization development, Management Services Organization development, and physician compensation plans all involving navigation of regulatory and compliance issues.

Ms. Rauzi is currently a principal in HCCS. She is accountable for the development of content for the HCCS blended learning products for health care compliance, including computer-based multi-media training programs, classroom training kits, and videos. She is Certified in Healthcare Compliance (CHC) by the Healthcare Compliance Certification Board (HCCB). lrauzi@hccs.com

David Rosenthal, Vice President - Strategy & Marketing
David Rosenthal has over fifteen years of experience selling, managing, developing and implementing technology solutions. For the past ten years, as President of Comsult, a software consulting company, he managed and developed complex software systems for clients in the fields of health care, utilities, finance and online services among others. Clients of Comsult included H&R Block / Compuserve, AT&T, American Lawyer Media and MFS Mutual Funds. Mr. Rosenthal was consulting to HCCS prior to joining the company in 2000. dmr@hccs.com

William (Bill) McGinn, National Director of Sales

As HCCS’s National Director of Sales, William McGinn is responsible for the strategic direction, revenue growth and sales leadership of the HCCS sales organization. Mr. McGinn leads a team of field sales professionals covering the continental US.

Mr. McGinn has over 25 years experience in executive healthcare management and sales. He brings his success and experience in guiding and driving world class sales organizations to HCCS. Prior to joining HCCS, Mr. McGinn has held senior leadership positions in companies in the healthcare technology and services field, including ChartOne (now Healthport), QuadraMed, Vianeta, Smart Corporation and Dictaphone Corporation. bmcginn@hccs.com