Our team

The people who run your dermatology revenue cycle

Fifteen specialists organized around dermatology — certified coders, denial and A/R leads, credentialing, compliance, analytics and implementation. You get named contacts, not a ticket queue.

Team members

Touseef Riaz, Founder & Chief Executive Officer at DermBilling USA

Touseef Riaz

Founder & Chief Executive Officer

MBA, Healthcare Revenue Cycle

Touseef founded DermBilling USA after more than a decade running revenue cycle operations for specialty practices. He works directly with dermatology owners on the numbers that decide profitability: payer contract rates, surgical coding capture, and the cost of every day a claim sits unworked.

Focus: Practice growth strategy, payer contracting economics

Hanah Grace, Director of Revenue Cycle Operations at DermBilling USA

Hanah Grace

Director of Revenue Cycle Operations

CPC

Hanah owns the day-to-day machine: charge capture through zero balance. She sets the work queues, the follow-up cadence on aged A/R, and the monthly reporting package every client receives, and she is the escalation point when a payer changes behavior mid-quarter.

Focus: End-to-end RCM workflow, month-end close

Tanzeel Aqdus, Chief Operating Officer at DermBilling USA

Tanzeel Aqdus

Chief Operating Officer

Healthcare Operations

Tanzeel leads operations across the client base — onboarding new dermatology practices, standing up clearinghouse and EHR integrations, and holding service levels on turnaround and clean-claim rate. He partners with practice managers on the operating rhythm: weekly work-queue reviews, monthly financial reporting, and quarterly payer performance checks.

Focus: Service delivery, client onboarding, RCM technology

Michael Brennan, Vice President, Payer Relations at DermBilling USA

Michael Brennan

Vice President, Payer Relations

Michael handles the conversations most practices never get to have — provider representatives, medical policy reviewers, and network managers. He builds the evidence packets behind policy-level appeals when a payer starts bundling or downcoding a dermatology service line.

Focus: Commercial contracts, medical policy disputes

Sarah Whitfield, Director of Dermatology Coding at DermBilling USA

Sarah Whitfield

Director of Dermatology Coding

CPC, CPMA

Sarah runs the coding audit program: prospective review on surgical cases, retrospective sampling on office visits, and provider-level feedback. Her audits are where most new clients first see the gap between what was documented and what was actually billed.

Focus: Documentation audits, E/M and procedure coding accuracy

David Coleman, Manager, A/R & Denials at DermBilling USA

David Coleman

Manager, A/R & Denials

CPB

David treats every denial as a data point rather than a one-off. He tracks denial reasons back to the step that caused them — eligibility, modifier, documentation, or submission timing — and rebuilds that step so the same denial stops repeating.

Focus: Denial root cause, appeals, aged A/R recovery

Emily Rodriguez, Credentialing & Payer Enrollment Lead at DermBilling USA

Emily Rodriguez

Credentialing & Payer Enrollment Lead

Emily manages provider enrollment from initial application through revalidation, including the group and location changes that quietly stop payments when they are missed. She keeps a rolling calendar so no attestation or revalidation deadline lapses.

Focus: Enrollment, revalidation, CAQH maintenance

James Patterson, Compliance Officer at DermBilling USA

James Patterson

Compliance Officer

CHC

James owns the compliance program: workforce training, access reviews, business associate agreements, and the documented response process for payer and government audits. He signs off on every workflow change that touches protected health information.

Focus: HIPAA, BAAs, audit response

Ashley Nguyen, Mohs & Surgical Coding Specialist at DermBilling USA

Ashley Nguyen

Mohs & Surgical Coding Specialist

CPC

Ashley codes the cases that general billers get wrong — staged Mohs with block counts, repair sizing across anatomic sites, and the modifier sequencing that keeps a same-day biopsy and excision from collapsing into one payment.

Focus: Mohs stages, repairs, flaps and grafts

Robert Sinclair, Director of Analytics at DermBilling USA

Robert Sinclair

Director of Analytics

Robert builds the dashboards behind every monthly review: net collection rate, first-pass yield, days in A/R by payer, and per-provider RVU capture. When a number moves, his job is to say why before the practice has to ask.

Focus: KPI reporting, payer performance benchmarking

Jessica Moore, Client Success Manager at DermBilling USA

Jessica Moore

Client Success Manager

Jessica is the named contact for practices from kickoff onward. She runs the monthly review call, translates the reporting into decisions the practice can act on, and keeps front-desk and clinical staff looped into changes that affect their workflow.

Focus: Onboarding, practice communication, monthly reviews

Megan O'Connor, Patient Billing Lead at DermBilling USA

Megan O'Connor

Patient Billing Lead

Megan handles the part of the revenue cycle patients actually see. She manages statement cycles, sets up payment plans, and takes the inbound billing calls so clinical staff are not explaining a cosmetic-versus-medical determination at the front desk.

Focus: Statements, payment plans, patient balance resolution

Tanya Fields, Manager, Eligibility & Prior Authorization at DermBilling USA

Tanya Fields

Manager, Eligibility & Prior Authorization

Tanya's team verifies benefits before the visit and carries prior authorizations for biologics, photodynamic therapy and phototherapy through to approval, including the peer-to-peer scheduling that keeps a treatment start date from slipping.

Focus: Benefit verification, biologics and PDT authorizations

Christopher Hayes, Dermatopathology Billing Specialist at DermBilling USA

Christopher Hayes

Dermatopathology Billing Specialist

CPC

Christopher handles the lab side: specimen-level billing, TC/PC splits for practices with in-house pathology, and the payer-specific rules on multiple specimens from a single encounter.

Focus: 88305 volume, global vs. technical/professional split

Laura Bennett, Charge Entry & Quality Assurance Manager at DermBilling USA

Laura Bennett

Charge Entry & Quality Assurance Manager

Laura runs the last check before a claim leaves. Her QA sampling and scrubbing rules are why first-pass acceptance stays high, and she feeds recurring entry errors back into provider templates rather than fixing them one claim at a time.

Focus: Pre-submission scrubbing, clean claim rate

Kevin Marshall, Implementation & EHR Integration Lead at DermBilling USA

Kevin Marshall

Implementation & EHR Integration Lead

Kevin runs the first 30 days: system access, fee schedule loads, clearinghouse setup, and the data migration from the prior biller. He builds the go-live plan so billing never pauses during a transition.

Focus: EMA, Nextech, eClinicalWorks, Athena onboarding

How the team is organized

Every practice is assigned a named client success manager, a coding lead and an A/R lead. That trio stays with the account, which is why questions about a specific claim get answered by someone who already knows the chart, the payer and the history.

Behind them sit the specialists — Mohs and surgical coding, dermatopathology, prior authorization, credentialing and compliance — who are pulled in by service line rather than by ticket queue.

Credentials and continuing education

  • Certified coders (CPC, CPB, CPMA) on all surgical and E/M review work
  • Annual CPT, ICD-10-CM and HCPCS update training before each January cycle
  • HIPAA workforce training on hire and annually thereafter
  • Payer policy monitoring for the MACs and commercial plans our clients bill

Frequently asked questions

Who will we actually work with day to day?

A named client success manager plus a coding lead and an A/R lead assigned to your practice. You have direct contact details for all three — not a shared inbox.

Are your coders certified?

Yes. Surgical and E/M review work is performed by certified coders (CPC, CPB, CPMA), with dermatology-specific focus areas including Mohs, repairs and dermatopathology.

Who handles compliance and HIPAA questions?

Our compliance officer owns the program — workforce training, access reviews, business associate agreements and audit response. A signed BAA is in place before any PHI is exchanged.

Free claims audit

Find out exactly what your practice is losing.

Send a de-identified claims sample. Within five business days you get a line-item leakage report — coding gaps, underpayments, and recoverable aged A/R, in dollars.

  • No cost, no obligation, no sales pressure
  • BAA signed before any data is shared
  • Reviewed by AAPC-certified dermatology coders

Request your audit

HIPAA-safe intake. Never submit patient names, dates of birth, or any protected health information in this form. By submitting, you agree we may contact you about dermatology billing services and that your details are handled under our privacy policy. Claims data for an audit is exchanged only after a BAA is executed — see our HIPAA notice.

Find your leaked revenue. Free dermatology claims audit — results in 5 business days.