Core Team

Jerry Stringham has worked as a reimbursement strategy consultant since the 1980s when he began providing reimbursement consulting services to diverse medical and pharmaceutical companies.  Jerry holds a BS in mechanical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an MBA from Harvard Business School. He has been part of five medical device start-up organizations operating out of New England and has grown MTP’s client list to over 160 clients.  Jerry founded Medical Technology Partners in 1998 to fill the growing need for business-oriented reimbursement consulting. Among his prior engagements, he has secured new coding through various professional societies. Jerry also teaches as a guest lecturer at Catholic University in their biotechnology program to help students understand the connection between biotech development and reimbursement.  Jerry’s experience in industry, including as a Principal in the health economics practice of a major CRO, brings expertise to new technology reimbursement challenges.

Nancy Young has worked in the health care industry since the early 1990s and joined MTP in 2000.  She has researched and produced value-added knowledge delivery products (including reimbursement assessments, feasibility analyses, billing guides, patient videos, and device dossiers) to educate physicians, facilities, insurers, and investors in over 15 clinical market segments.  In addition to completing more than 60 quantitative data analysis reports, she has analyzed dozens of interactive surveys of medical directors at managed care organizations to obtain qualitative and quantitative data on the environment facing emerging technologies.  She has also drafted coding applications and managed reimbursement resource centers, which improve education and build information sharing for use in actionable business intelligence and propagation of best practices.  Nancy has a BA in medical sociology and MA in health information management.  She has certifications in HIPAA Awareness and HIPAA Security and is a Certified Medical Billing Specialist - Instructor (CMBS-I) and Market Access Reimbursement Analyst (MARA).  She currently serves as President of the Medical Association of Billers and Academic Director of MAB Institute.

Dr. Clark is a former Medicare Administrative Contractor (MAC) Medical Director with 40 years of clinical practice and 25 years of Medicare policy development.  His experience specifically includes policy and reimbursement review in multiple service lines (e.g., laboratory and wound care services,) overseeing claims adjudication, and substantial presentation experience before Administrative Law Judges.  He has worked in private practice (internal medicine) and as an Associate Clinical Professor at Georgetown University's Department of Community Medicine.  He continues to be a Diplomate to the American Board of Internal Medicine and a Fellow to the American College of Physicians.  Dr. Clark has been President of Medical Staff at Inova Mount Vernon Hospital; President of the Virginia Society of Internal Medicine; and a Member of the Governor’s Council, Virginia Chapter, American College of Physicians; and continues as a Volunteer Medical Director at Carpenters Homeless Shelter.  Dr. Clark received his MD from Georgetown University and completed his internship at SUNY Stony Brook and residency at Washington Veterans Medical Center at Georgetown University.

John Reese joined MTP in 2014 and brings more than 30 years of experience in workforce development, human services, and health care administration.  He has worked in the field and supervisory capacities in counseling and protective services created various prevention and public awareness programs involving coordination of multi-agency collaborations and have established and coordinated various local and state level workforce development services.  John has extensive experience in case management, medical records and documentation, minimum data set management, and providing in-person and telephonic services and customer support.  John is contributing these clinical, managerial, health care administration, facilitator, and field/in-house awareness skills to support MTP’s Reimbursement Resource Centers. John has a BA in social services and MS in family and marital counseling. He has certifications in HIPAA Awareness, HIPAA Security, and SQL.  He is also a Certified Medical Billing Specialist (CMBS) and Market Access Reimbursement Analyst (MARA).