Author
At the beginning of 2020 I was uncertain how seriously COVID-19 would affect RPC’s business. Thanks to our clients, our staff, and our clinical associates, 2020 was an exceptionally good year for RPC. Because many of our staff have always worked from home full time, we had the IT infrastructure to quickly and safely adapt to COVID-19 with no loss of productivity.
In 2020 we worked with 71 new clients and represented both plaintiffs and defendants in personal injury litigation, healthcare litigation, commercial litigation, and Certificates of Need. We opened 50 percent more cases than in 2019. While many of these new cases were for life care plans, vocational evaluations, or earning capacity analysis, the most rapid growth in cases was for medical bill analysis. We provided reports in payment disputes between providers and managed care plans. We prepared many Section 18.001 counter affidavits for defendants in personal injury litigation.
To support our work on specific projects we developed a new database of usual, customary, and reasonable (“UCR”) charges based on the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services Standard Analytical File for practitioners. This database and other sources and methods used in our reports are documented in white papers available on our website.
Because of our increased business volume, during 2020 RPC welcomed Amanda Mathis, Michael Jesse, and Carla Spehar as additional support staff, and Kim Beladi, RN, BSN, LNCC, Tommy Cooper, PhD, CPA, Vicki Vosburg, RN, BSN, LNC, and Theresa Comer, BSN, RN, as consultants. Three additional consultants, Stephanie Rindelaub, RN, LNCC, Elizabeth Murray, BSN, RN, LNCC, and Reagan Stuart, joined us at the end of the year to help us with expected growth in 2021.
The year 2020 was perhaps the most unusual since RPC’s foundation in 1972. It was a year of challenges from COVID and opportunities from our clients. Thanks again to all who helped RPC make it through the year. We hope everyone has a safe and healthy 2021.
Sincerely,
Ron Luke, JD, PhD
President