IAM EXPERTISE
The IAM leadership and management team is comprised of highly qualified and experienced anesthesia professionals and very experienced business and legal professionals with many years of health care expertise. We maintain relationships with physician and administrator advisors to supplement our internal expertise.
Key Manager Profiles
Jeff Caudle has over 20 years of experience in the health care industry and was co-founder of Carolina Anesthesia Associates, P.A. (CAA) in 1997. CAA provides anesthesia services to over 40 facilities throughout North and South Carolina. The facilities include plastic surgery, gastroenterology, ophthalmology, ENT, urology, dental, ASCs and hospitals. Along with providing professional anesthesia services on a daily basis, Jeff is also a key operational manager with both Innovative Anesthesia Management and Carolina Anesthesia Associates. He holds a Bachelors degree from Wingate College, Bachelors degree in Nursing from University of North Carolina at Charlotte, and Masters degree in Nursing from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He completed his nursing anesthesia education at Wake Forest University Medical Center.
Bob Blake has over 23 years of health care business experience with a specialization in finance management, mostly serving as an independent consultant to physicians. In 2000, Bob helped form a statewide gastroenterology network which worked for five years to overturn CON law in regards to GI endoscopy centers. He then assisted the gastroenterologists in the construction, staffing, accreditation, licensing, and certification of many GI endoscopy centers.
Most recently, Bob has worked on CON applications and has served as CFO for Carolina Anesthesia Associates. He maintains extensive experience in contracting with private and government payers across all medical specialties.
Over the years Bob has been a CEO of a large multi-site pathology practice, has developed provider owned HMOs and insurance companies, has managed large partially integrated provider networks, and has consulted with employers on health plan management with a focus on wellness activities. His finance career began as an Operations Manager with Chase Manhattan Bank. After graduating from Collegiate School in New York City, Bob earned an A.B. degree in Economics from Brown University and a degree in Finance from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
Steve Schuster has been representing health care clients for over 40 years. He is a former member of the Board of Directors for the American Health Lawyers Association. His clients over the years have included health care management companies, physicians, physician service organizations, ambulatory surgery centers, health insurers, IPAs, HMOs, hospitals and billing and collection companies. Steve has built a reputation for understanding and constructing transactions in the health care industry that meet all of the regulatory concerns including Fraud and Abuse, taxation, and health care financing. Steve holds a BA from Vanderbilt University and a J.D. from Georgetown Law Center.
As CFO, Mike Mitchell is responsible for financial modeling, financial management of client anesthesia operations, payer contracting, credentialing and billing. His nearly 30 years of experience in health care finance is a valuable asset to IAM clients.
Mike began his career as an auditor for the Blue Cross and Blue Shield auditing hospital and nursing facilities for the Medicare program. In this capacity, he learned the reimbursement systems that medical practices depend upon. For a change of pace, he moved to a multi-hospital system as Chief Financial Officer, and for over eight years held direct responsibility for the financial operations of two hospitals and two skilled nursing facilities, consolidating the business operations of all facilities into a single unified operation. He worked with physicians establishing new practices, dealing with everything from locating office space to setting up complete business systems from scratch.
In 1988, Mike founded a medical practice management company called Practice Management Group, LLC (PMG), providing a full range of revenue cycle management and billing services to physicians and other healthcare providers. He has gained extensive experience in all phases of the revenue cycle process, from practice start-up, provider contract negotiation and credentialing to billing and receivable management.
Mike earned a BS degree in Accounting from the University of South Carolina. He has completed numerous graduate courses in business and financial management, federal income taxation, and information systems management. He has also completed extensive continuing education in health care financial management, and has served on the Editorial Review Board for the Healthcare Financial Management Journal. He has attained certification in Managed Care with the Healthcare Financial Management Association.
Traci Richards has more than fifteen years experience in the management and operation of companies doing business in the health care delivery system. Most recently Traci was Executive Director of the Mid-Atlantic region for Breast Cancer Network of Strength. Prior to that Traci was a founder and the Chief Operating Officer of National Provider Credentialing Service, Inc. an NCQA certified physician credentialing company whose clients included major third party payers and large specialty service provider groups. Traci has served as a consultant to physicians nationwide while a principal in Chancellor, Inc. and operated one of the largest capitated specialty networks in the country. Traci earned a BA degree from The Ohio State University.
David Klappholz obtained his BSN from the University of Texas at Arlington School of Nursing. While there, he was an active member of American Nursing Students of America and was elected and served as a board member of the Nursing Constituency Council. David was also named to the Who’s Who of America of College Students. Upon graduation, he completed a Critical Care and Trauma Internship at Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas, TX, and worked as a charge nurse and shift supervisor.
David completed his nurse anesthesia training at the University of Tennessee at Memphis. Upon completion of his training he relocated to Texas where he gained extensive anesthesia experience. During this time, he marketed his CRNA services and eventually established Professional Anesthesia Services, which he managed until 2005. It was at this time he reached his families’ goal of returning to East Tennessee and began work for a group of CRNAs until 2007. To satisfy his entrepreneurial spirit, he continued to market his services and in 2007 after securing sufficient contracts, he established Merit Anesthesia PLLC.
David joined Innovative Anesthesia Management in 2009. He brings a successful leadership style, knowledge of effective marketing techniques, and an understanding of current issues and strategies in healthcare. Overall he exhibits a determined work ethic, good interpersonal skills, and a proven track record of managing a business and its employees.
David realizes the importance of professional involvement, and has been an active member of the TXANA, serving on the Public Relations, Government Relations, and Practice Committees in 2004-2005. He is currently serving the TNANA on the PAC Committee.
Dr. Jeff Adams has more than 20 years experience in private practice as an anesthesiologist. Dr. Adams has a B.S. in Chemistry and Mathematics from the University of Richmond as well as a Doctor of Medicine degree from the University of Virginia. He completed his anesthesia residency at Medical Center Hospital of Vermont. He currently practices outpatient anesthesia on a full-time basis with Carolina Anesthesia Associates, P.A.
Dale Camp is a principle member of Innovative Anesthesia Management, LLC. Dale has over 30 years experience as a CRNA and was a staff nurse anesthetist for the United States Air Force for five years.
In 1997, Dale co-founded Carolina Anesthesia Associates, P.A., which provides anesthesia services to over 40 facilities in North and South Carolina. Dale exclusively limits his practice to outpatient anesthesia.
Dale holds a Bachelors degree in Nursing from Western Carolina University. He completed his nurse anesthesia education at Memorial Mission Hospital in Asheville, NC. He also holds a Masters degree in Public Administration from Troy State University.