Medical Business Associates, Inc. (MBA) has a unique core competency in conducting technology and process enabled audits of health information, health care claims and their respective processes. Ms. Busch has over one hundred publications and presentations, along with twenty plus years of progressive achievement in the health care management industry. She developed proprietary data analysis tools and currently has a patent pending on a data anomaly profiler and a second patent pending on a case management system for a personal health record (PHR) management system. She is a registered nurse and an MBA – as well as a certified fraud examiner (CFE), health care fellow in financial management (FHFMA), along with a Masters Certificate in Case Management (CCM).

Ms. Busch’s ability to quickly identify anomalies from vast amounts of data has distinguished her and Medical Business Associates as an invaluable source enabling dramatic cost-savings for clients. In addition, Ms. Busch testifies as an expert in the area of health care reimbursement, internal controls, life care expense analysis, patient care documentation and respective damages – and she has authored Healthcare Fraud: Audit and Detection Guide (Wiley Publications 2007) and Electronic Health Records: An Internal Audit Guide (Wiley Publications 2008); and a “how to” book that will teach American families how to prevent medical errors and detect fraud in reviewing their own families’ medical records through MBA’s electronic personal health record, PortFoliasm. Selective case study contributions may also be found in Computer Case Fraud Book Bytes that Bite edited Joseph T. Wells (editor) I Do Case study on Identity Theft by Rebecca Busch (contributing author) John Wiley & Sons, Inc. (2008) and Fraud Casebook: Lessons from the Bad Side of Business Joseph T. Wells (editor), Chapter 59 Bodies for Rent by Rebecca Busch, Wiley & Sons Publications, July 2007.

Additionally she is a faculty member of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners and makes frequent public speaker appearances.

Professional Certifications and Licenses

Registered Nurse, (RN)
State of Illinois, 1985

CFE; Certified Fraud Examiner

CHFP; Certified Healthcare Financial Professional

FHFMA; Certified Fellow in Healthcare Financial Management

CBM; Certified Business Manager

CIA; Certified internal auditor candidate

CHS-3; Certified Home Land Security

 

Professional Memberships and Affiliations

ACFE; Association of Certified Fraud Examiners

HFMA; Health Care Financial Management Association

APBM; Association of Professionals in Business Management

ACFEI; American College of Forensic Examiners

IIA; Institute of Internal Auditors

 

Education

B.S., Rush University, Registered Nurse, Illinois license active 1985

M.B.A., Lewis University, (1991)

C.C.M. Masters Certificate in Case Management, DePaul University, (1995)

Post Graduate

Northwestern University: Issues in a Network Economy, Branding, Marketing, and Customer Relationship Management, (2000)