PRC was founded, and established, in 1979, by our current Chief Executive Officer, Brian Herschkowitz, who was previously Reimbursement Manager for a large Fiscal Intermediary. Through his work with hospitals, Brian identified that most hospitals needed assistance in meeting the demands placed on them by current, and ever changing Government guidelines and regulations. PRC’s initial focus was directed at hospitals and their preparations and filings of their Medicare and Medicaid cost reports. In 1984, PRC began to include Reviews on ICD-9-CM coding, DRG assignments, and PPS reimbursement. By 1990, the Government had included outpatient issues and CPT codes to their compliance and reimbursement focus, which included Charge Masters and Medical Records. PRC had already begun to develop a staff of fully credentialed, highly educated, specially trained, and experienced consultants to review “providers” compliance and reimbursement, and we developed the services that our clients needed to meet their objectives. As this area of consulting grew, PRC relinquished it’s position on cost reports, and directed their resources into Charge Masters, Medical Records, Billing, Education, and all other related activities.